Oh...o.k.

Your very angry aren't you.

Not at all.

How come this thread started up again then?

Because it was on the New Posts page for me...

Excellent.


^ It just that I had this image of you biting chunks out of a large piece of raw meat, as you posted that.

:)

I highly doubt that India is a big exporter of cow hide, considering the dominant religion is Hinduism which views cows as sacred...

I don't get it =/

I didn't quite get in the original post why they were saying that nobody would actually want to kill an animal to eat it... no no, people these days will only eat what they buy in shops.

That's not right, if there weren't shops around selling chicken meat and I had a chicken, I'd killl it and eat it no problem.

Well, that's only really (female) cows, rather than bulls which some Hindus are happy to kill for leather. Also, in many areas of India, not killing cows is a practical thing, rather than religious as live cows produce milk. For some people its fine to use the remains of a dead cow for what you need. Also, something like 15% of the population is Muslim, who have no religious affinity for the cow, plus a lot of sikhs and christians. As the Indian state is secular and areas like the north-west are prodiminently muslim/sikh and Kerala is mostly Christian, in these parts of the country at least they would have a certain freedom to do what they want with cows.

In India I bought two pairs of leather shoes and a leather jacket, all made in India and definitely of some kind of leather (I was told it was cow). Also, I was told that the next town from where I stayed was a 'big leather producing town', so I think there is a lot of cow (well, bull probably) hide production going on there... and that was in Tamil Nadu which is a very Hindu area.

That's interesting, I wouldn't have thought that.

Its mainly because 'India' is really a creation of British imperialism. Before colonisation, it was made up of a bunch of kingdoms (not called kingdoms, but that's pretty much what they were) with different cultures and religions and ethnic groupings. The area which India covers wasn't one country until Europeans came and drew those lines on a map. That means that although India is one nation now, the seperate states within that country have cultures which in some ways are much more isolated from one another than in the US for example. They have more history within each state (than the US) and perhaps less shared history between states*

That might need more clarification at some point!