Hegemonic ideas
of one group over another have always been a part of the class and caste oppression.
Even food, which is the basic means of existence, is not devoid of it, especially
so when we look at "the Politics of food culture in India". The so
called secular Indian state though ideally should not discriminate against nor
support any particular caste, creed, religion, race, gender, yet it makes a
mockery of the very ideas that it promises to uphold. Coming to the question of
food culture how does the Indian state justify its intervention in the food
culture. Even when we look at our own campus, both beef and pork are considered
as taboos. At this juncture we see a politics of silence from the progressive
political parties of this campus who otherwise claim to fight for multiculture
and democratic space of this campus. 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 about
celebrating Durga Pooja and participating in the Iftar Party, 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, (Periyar EVR) 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 of North East. 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 reared 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 gods who live in 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!!!
There is no god. There
is no god. There is no god at all.
He who created god was a
fool!
He who propagates god is
a scoundrel!
He who worships god is a
barbarian!!
Forget God!!! Think about Man!!!
- Periyar E.V.Ramasamy
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