Hindu Vegetarians -I met are pretty much against anyone eating meat in their presence.This is a kind of sanctimonious attitude which is not at all conducive to harmony in the society.I surely think that no one can impose food restrictions on others.
There are some people who think that non-vegetarians are some how inferior - this has a lot to do sectarian attitude prevalent in India.There is widespread notion among some people that vegetarians are pure and spiritual.And then there are vegetarians who correlate all of a person's qualities with the food he ate.(Non-veg is Tamas,so if I get angry it is because I ate fish!).This I think is very much flawed.People like Hitler,Pol pot have been Vegetarians.Further,they make 'Sanctimonious' snide remarks when some one is eating non-vegetarian food.This is ridiculous from the fact that,it is not easy for someone born in a non-veg family to switch from non-veg to veg overnight.If vegetarians cannot stand the smell,they should make it clear right from the start rather than sucking someone's blood.
Such Hindu's should ask themselves how consistent they themselves are:
1.The conception that milk is some how pure and does not cause any harm is totally false.Cows don't publicize themselves and ask humans to drink their milk!Modern Dairy and Factory Farming (for vegetables) practices are abominable to say the least.Milk Drinking from a vegan perspective is an example of selfish human behavior. No,you don't become a 'selfish' guy by drinking milk.Milk is for the Calf and not meant to be taken by humans.Next time,you offer milk for God,Hindus must think about cow 'suffering'.
And then whats wrong with Eggs if Milk is alright?Hindu Vegetarians must remember that Eggs are unfertilized and they do not have a potential for life any more than Milk has.
2.How about Soaps,leather,silk etc?They are made from raw hide and animal tissues.But Hindu Vegetarians seem to be largely unaware of this fact.
I do not have problems if a person has chosen Vegetarian for his personal self development.However,What is the point in being a Veggie if you use Vegetarianism as a cloak for your own evil nature and showoff one's ethical superiority?
Here are my thoughts:
1-I completely agree that simply knowing if someone is veg or not doesnt tell you anytng about hir morals.
Know why s/he went veg may tell you something about hir morals, but sitll you cant know much more just by that. S/he may be morally better in that aspect, but morally inferior on many others.
2-It is not confirmed whether hitler was a veg. It may be that he was, and we dont know why he really did it if he did. We know Goebbels campaigns made him to look he did it because he was a compassionate sensible man, but why trust nazi campaign in the first place?
3-Letting go of meat does not mean that we do not harm animals at all. I agree that a good attitude for an hindu ( or any human on that regard) would be to only dri milk that you know comes from a cow that did not suffer. Not like most milk coming from cows that are in....terrible life conditions.
Then again, it is not acceptable to participate and contribute with our money to all the horriblesness simply because we are contributing on some. For now I own leather and I drink milk that probably came from horribly treated cows. I also have stuff made in China by underpaid, overworked, underslept underage chinesemen and women. Nobody is perfect.
I dont see anything wrong with driing milk in itself. The cow doesnt suffer simply for giving us milk, so that is no problem,specially in the cases where the cow is well taken care of.
4- I dont think eating eggs has any moral problem with it. I think is more of one energetic dietary condition? A more knowledgeable other may say.
On my opinion, eggs are all good.
