IN FAVOUR OF VEGETARIANISM

One of the unending and unresolved subjects for debate since time immemorial in our society has been, whether the man should be a meat eater’. There are animals eating only plants and herbs. On the other hand some animals like tigers and lions subsist on animal flesh only. However, another section which is omnivorous includes cats, dogs and even human beings. Since man has reason, some thinkers, deeply rooted in nonviolence totally decry killing animals for food. There is yet another section of physique conscious people who argue that non-veg food gives enough nutritions.The moralists, particularly of non-violence sects, argue that the length of human intestine is much shorter that those of the flesh eating animals and hence man should eschew meat eating. However, we know that there are some plants, grains and roots having more nutritious values than meat. Can anybody forget that the legendary wrestler Master Chandgi Ram had defeated a more famous wrestler, despite being a veggie. The biggest and most powerful animal present on the earth, viz. the elephant, is vegetarian. The animal, who gave us ‘horse power’ is vegetarian. For that matter entire bovine family is veggie. So the logic showing flesh as powerhouse of energy does not appear tenable. Recently some skeletons have been recovered in Argentina, which is explained to be of the biggest so far known dinosaurs. They came on this planet about ten crore years ago and disappeared some 6 crore years back. They weighed nearly 70 tons which is equql to 14 African elephants. From head to tail, they were 40 meter long, equal to a 7-storey building. My basic idea of bringing this recently known dinosaur in this story is to tell that these earthly giants were purely vegetarian. The matter is left at this point for the readers to draw a conclusion.