the Holy cannibal …..
Posted on 21st February 2006 by TaggyWhom do you call a cannibal ?
Wikipedia says “cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one’s own species and usually refers to humans eating other humans”
I grew up in a vegetarian home , with a fiercely vegetarian mother. But we havent been a traditional vegetarian family , my grandfather says his father was a pretty good hunter , i see inone of my childhood frames a pair of tiger claws hanging around my neck .
I always loved the taste of meat be it chicken or the mutton and never had this sense of guilt in me that i was actually killing a living creature and if you take religion “all of us are creations of the same god hence we are all related“and if you take in to what darwin says “All creatures have a common focal point“.Hence everytime i chop an animal down iam actually killing a far off relative.
And that makes me a Cannibal.
But wait does is this really a good argument ? or is there a counter argument ?
the existence and non existence of an counter argument depends on the listener themselves.
One can always say Plants also fit in to the realm of live creatures.While the vegetarians shout from the roof about the Immorality of killing animals , what happens when they cut a plant out, what happend when people pluck fruits they know bear the seeds of another tree ( another living organisms) .
When you are reaping down the crops how many weeds get broken , howmany soil micro organisms die off. Isnt these death slaughter or killing ? Howmany know that in what is called Nitrogen fixation for a paddy crop its the nitrogeneous bacteria that lays itself down? isnt this an act of killing ?
Arent we descendants of the bacteria ? oh ! god didnt we kill our own ancestors when we take every bit of rice down ?
Well my friend says ” common bacteria is different froma goat or a chicken and no way a plant can be compared to a live animal”
well why not ? May be it comes down to say ” Size matters” if it does then yo are moving away from your stand . If it didnt you know its very difficult to pass a judgement.
But is this all ? how does this nature work ?
For those who know science would quickly come up with food chain or he food web or the ecosystem pyramid .
What does it mean ?
It puts out the food chain that exists in the nature today and what happens if there is an imbalance in the food chain .
And then comes the questionof Death .
” It is impossible to fully address the moral implications of eating meat without thinking about the significance of life and death. Otherwise one is in danger of hypocrisy, stemming from our separation from the fact of death behind each piece of meat we eat. The physical and social distance from slaughterhouse to dinner table insulates us from the fear and pain the animals feel as they are led to the slaughter, and turns a dead animal into just a piece of meat ”
Why should death be considered so unfortunate ?
Nature has its own way of creating and maintaing a balance in the ecosystem and we being a part of the ecosystem shouldntmeddle with it.
At the end of the day may be we call oursleves human being but we still are omnivores arent we ? we play the role of any omnivore in the eco system and food chain .
Well my mother is alway sup to advising me the harms of killing fellow creatures be it a small insect or a hen. well i loved animals too i had pets and loved the company of love birds.
I have grown up seeing my grandfather eat meat my father eat meat. I ask my mother “When they dont have a sense of guilt and mymother herslef being a part of it. Why should i develop a sense of guilt for this “Well she always brought up an answer but she knows it well its never so good .
It all comes down to the individuals choice for the person raising the issue hasnt done anythin better too ?
So are we all cannibals ?
Have we all become insensitive to other life forms on this earth or its jus the natural priocess that has gone on sinc etime immemorial and we are just seeing a few people against the tide. The choice is yours…..
This post is a reply to one such accusation against me ! ..someone just called me a cannibal!
i must say it was pretty bad in taste .
i think its just too difficult to argue on this i know my own arguments at times r pretty bad ! but they r jus mine and u hav to respect me for that :D
meet u in chennai dude ;) keep posting along :D
