Posted on 11/19/2012 7:18:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The pros and cons of a diet including meat may be the subject of debate for nutritionists, but one Indian school textbook has made its position very clear – eating meat will make you lie, steal and commit sex crimes. The unusual moral guidance appeared in a school book for 11-year-olds, supposedly offering education on issues from health and hygiene to sex education and exercise, Indian news channel NDTV reported.
On a page about non-vegetarians, the book said that they ‘easily cheat, tell lies, they forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes’.
It also claimed that 'it is the waste products which largely produce the flavour of meat', and praised the Japanese for their vegetarian diet, failing to mention their love of seafood.
The book’s marriage advice was also questionable, suggesting women should find a husband between the ages of 18 and 25.
'To get married without a bad name is a dream of every young girl,' it said.
NDTV said the text was published by printing company S Chand, while the chief of India’s Central Board for Secondary Education said books were chosen by individual schools and not monitored for content.
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You need to meet some new people.
No, it's women who do that.
The Mongols, as pastoralists, ate an almost exclusively meat and dairy diet.
I am a 2nd hand vegetarian:
Cows eat grass, I eat cows.
Actually, I do know quite a few successful vegetarians (my wife was one when I met her and I’ve been to India on business a half dozen times) but it’s the preachy ones over here who think they can live on lettuce and want everybody else to starve along with them that I was referring to.
Yep, that deadly all purpose solvent H2O. Pity that like carbon and CO2 it’s what the planet’s biomass is made of and its consumption is what keeps living things alive.
Is that was causes Atlanta public school teachers to be like that?
We can’t live on lettuce; that’s for sure, and it’s presumptious to proselytize.
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