Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Politics of food Culture in JNU- “the holy cow and the unholy swine”



The Brahminical left in this campus in the name of secularism supports every religion instead of critiquing it. As Marx said, “Religion is the opium for the masses” the Indian Parliamentary left comfortably forgets this for their vote bank of the Majority Hindus and Minority Muslims. Secularism is not supporting all religion but not supporting any religion. It is not celebrating Durga Pooja and participating in the Iftar Party is secularism, as the Indian Parliamentary left as well as the Bourgeois Parties do.  The three pillars which support the caste system are Brahminism, Religion, and the concept of God, where the Indian parliamentary left is satisfied with attacking only the caste atrocities and upto an extent of attacking the Brahminism for sake of rising slogans. Why pork is not available inside the JNU campus even in North East Dhaba? The Brahminical left in this campus scared of losing minority muslim vote banks in their politics. On the other hand they only bring AFSPA and Irom Sharmila during the period of elections to show their support to North East as an eye wash and to get votes. But did they do anything literally to save the culture of North east as well as other parts of India inside this campus? Pork Eating is one of the integral cultural practices of North East and beef also except in the brahminised regions. If JNU campus is a multicultural campus why only particular culture is hegemonizing the other Indian cultures and also with the support of the Brahminical mainstream Indian Left? The question of beef and pork eating is not only an issue of right to food but also comfortable for the working class to have inexpensive and high protein content to compensate their loss of energy. None of the Indian peasants want to kill their cows when it is profitable by way of giving milk. When the cow becomes old and useless, they cannot simply maintain it as it is unaffordable to them. In that time they sell it for butchering, not like the western countries which grow cows only for cow meat. Farmers, Dalits, Backward castes, Urban poor today prefers to eat inexpensive beef rather than going for the sky racketing vegetables, pulses and mutton. Denying these people’s right to go for their cheap food is literal Fascism.

The God of Rig Veda Indra had eaten tons of beef as said by many hymns in Rig Veda. The author of Ramayana Valmiki welcomed his guests by offering beef. The four Vedas said that the cow killed in ‘Goumeda’ yagya is sacred and should be shared among Brahmins respective of their status. Brahmins can eat the meat of the cow which was killed in the Yagya for the welfare of the world. Yagnyavalkya “mouthwaterly” describes the taste of young cow meat. So before banning the cow slaughtering and the beef eating, the four Vedas, Ramayana, puranas and Manu smiriti should be banned, because of their campaigning for beef eating. Due to Brahmins who received cows as a sacrificial fee (dakshina) and cow slaughtering Yagyas, the agriculture in the ancient India was about to fade. Thus the Buddhism and Jainism came against the Brahminic and Vedic rituals, and this is the reason for the celebration of both religions by the common people. Both religions were anti Brahministic and argued for vegetarianism. When the brahminism not only digested both the religions but also stolen the concept of vegetarianism. Even today the Kashmiri, Bengali and Deccan Brahmins eat non veg diet. There is a reason why the Brahminical forces today oppose beef eating. The Panchamas or the outcaste who lived outside the villages were commissioned and forced to eat the dead cows and do the menial jobs. On this basis they were discriminated in the name of birth and profession. Now brahminical forces are using beef eating as a weapon against muslim minorities also. One can say that in the politics of cow RSS has taken more tolls of human heads than the number of cows which were killed.

In the evolution of man from animal to human beings, the non veg diet helped a lot in the development of brain and body. In today’s world except the Brahmins and the upper caste Hindus the entire world is having beef and not only beef but whatever animal available. For example camel, dog, goat, rabbit etc are eaten according to the geographical climatic conditions as well as availability. There is no hierarchy between the non veg food. The Indian upper caste Brahmins who goes to Chicago city in US for computer jobs - where every day thousands of cows are slaughtered for beef. Can the Hindu right wing forces ban the migration of Hindus to America? When cow is sacred and holy then what about fish, cock, goat; where fish incarnation was taken by Lord Vishnu, cock as the vehicle of Lord Subbramanyan and goat was grown by Krishna along with cows respectively. When beef eating is prohibited how the caste Hindu and Brahmins can wear slippers made of cow skin. Even the god itself agreed to have child flesh, in Tamil siavite stories, what is the problem in having beef? When there is hatred against the muslims and discrimination against the dalits, the progressive person who oppose both the discrimination in the name of caste and minorities and to destroy caste system, should develop the habit of eating and cooking beef in their homes. If the cow is so holy and 33 crore gods are supposedly living in the body of the cow, why the hell Dalits are asked to carry the dead body of cow and burry it? Why not the the gods who live the earth (the Brahmins) the Sankaracharyas, the RSS Sangh parivar member do this? Protest against the ban of cow slaughtering and beef eating in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka!!!

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