My part of veg and non-veg debate

Well i dont want to a write / express my views on this topic but people around me pulled me in to the debate yesterday ! Giving here some of those questions put to me and my answers to them. As a strict veggie who recently started eating in non-veg and veg combined hotel (appavum veg thaanpa), My answers are based on vegetarianism followed by our forefathers and not of that vegetarianism which is being followed today. I started by declaring this and they are ready to put forward the questions to me.

Q: You people are telling eating non-veg is sin as it is made of killing animals. Dont you kill the plant and eat it?

Who told you the indian vegetarians kill the plants. Right from the fruits, vegetables everything is the product of the plans and after which plant doesnt take care of that part of the product and it is of no use to the plant. Thats why even if you dont pluck that product out of the plant, you can find that product of the plant ( fruit, vegetables) going dry and waste. Also plant doesnt convert everything in to its product. Some part it reserves which is of no use to humans. They are useful for bringing out another saplings. As it is the job of human to bring another sapling (also you can take it like, to get more food (fruit or vegetable), human gets that another product (which is called seed) and they plant it. So by no way plant is not affected.

Q. So whats the case of keerais (Green leaves) then ?

See for cooking, you dont use new leaves. You use only mature leaves( By the time i say this people started raising questions like no on we only use fresh leaves not the old ones. Then i started arguing, people got settled down). I repeat we use only mature leaves not the new leaves. I am not saying we are using old leaves but the fresh matured leaves. You have fresh new leaves, fresh matured leaves. You ask any old people for the difference between matured and new leaves.  Again matured leaves cannot feed the plant any more and some plant will shed leaves and some will be wasted in the plant. So whats wrong in human plicking those leaves?

Q. Sami, what about cow’s milk then ? ( i was expecting some one would come with this)

Who told you cow’s milk is non-veg? It is the cow which we respect a lot converts its blood in to the milk to feed its child. Have you seen any blood in the milk ? After the calf had taken the milk from cow, humans are taking that extra product. If we left to the cow itself, it will cause problems to cow only.

Q. What about garlic and onions ?

In indian vegetarianism, we wont use garlic and onions. Though everybody including me eats them, in none of our functions / festivals we use them. Reason, if we take it out them from the ground, they are dead. As vegetarians are against killing, they wont use it.

Q. What about rice?

Same answer applies to here. Farmers will harvest paddy only after it got riped. Its life is over and it gives its prodcut to us and goes. We are taking that product.

I continued, none of the people are striclty following these. Previously every family had cow and its own garden of fruits and vegetables. They followed this practice of allowing the calf to take its mothers milk first and then the people took the milk. They carefully plucked the leaves and fruits. They maintained the garden very well. Now the life style got changed a lot. In the diary, No calf is allowed to take the milk from cow before the human extracts the milk and did he leave after that, he mixes water. No farmer is seeing whether the trees are properly nourised (first people are not interested in growing trees useful for environment).

And no vegetarians are raising voices against these? so they should not raise voice against the non-veg who kills the animals. The only difference of today is non-veg people kill animal brutally and veggie kills the plants (does any one see which is matured leaf and which is new leaf? today? i doubt), kills the cow (not the concept of adimaadu, but before that itself they refusing to feed its own child). So veggies dont have rights. I concluded by saying if we people follow actual indian vegetarianism, that would be great and it is better than non-veg.

But why am making this debate is if some one points blindly that veggies concepts are killing plants and troubling cow, then my counter will be like these. Also people made what we have today’s veg and non-veg as life style. Nobody is going to change with arguments kind of these. Its my point and wish to have veg and no body can say that i am following some concept of life style which kills plants.

In yesterday’s debate, most of them seem to agree to what i have said but still some one said “Sami kitta pesi jaikka mudiyathu” Adapavigala, naan enna avvalavu pidivathamava pesaren? Ithukku thaan i said i wont come in to these kind of arguments. People pulled me and giving this unneccessary title to me