India's major export item is Beef according to this news item:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/news/economy/india-beef-exports-buffalo/index.html
Beef which is bovine meat appears to be one of the major exports from India to east Asian countries and my personal feeling is it is regrettable. Ahimsa was the platform on which India's independence from Britain was won. Ahimsa extends to all life forms including the unborn and the animal kingdom. This is not so say plants have no life.
Exporters may split hair to say that water buffalo meat is not meat from cow. They are technically correct but beef is bovine meat. They may even argue to the non-savory character who rides the water buffalo, namely the god of Death.
This is an excerpt from the Brittanica:
"
Yama, in the mythology of India, the god of the dead. The Vedas describe him as the first man who died, blazing the path of mortality down which all humans have since followed. He is the guardian of the south (the region of death) and presides over the resting place of the dead, which is located under the earth. In the Vedas, Yama was represented as a cheerful king of the departed ancestors, not as a punisher of sins, but in later mythology he became known as the just judge (Dharmaraja) who weighs the good and evil deeds of the dead and determines retribution. He is described as majestic in appearance, green or black, with red eyes and red garments. He carries a noose and a mace, which may be ornamented with a skull, and rides a buffalo. His two four-eyed dogs guard the entrance to his kingdom, and the crow and the pigeon act as his messengers. Yama has also passed over into Buddhist mythology in Tibet, China, and Japan, where he occupies a similar but minor role as the guardian of the abode of the dead."
I think it is just as disgusting for Zimbabwe to allow hunters to take down lions as India to export bovine beef.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/news/economy/india-beef-exports-buffalo/index.html
Beef which is bovine meat appears to be one of the major exports from India to east Asian countries and my personal feeling is it is regrettable. Ahimsa was the platform on which India's independence from Britain was won. Ahimsa extends to all life forms including the unborn and the animal kingdom. This is not so say plants have no life.
Exporters may split hair to say that water buffalo meat is not meat from cow. They are technically correct but beef is bovine meat. They may even argue to the non-savory character who rides the water buffalo, namely the god of Death.
This is an excerpt from the Brittanica:
"
Yama, in the mythology of India, the god of the dead. The Vedas describe him as the first man who died, blazing the path of mortality down which all humans have since followed. He is the guardian of the south (the region of death) and presides over the resting place of the dead, which is located under the earth. In the Vedas, Yama was represented as a cheerful king of the departed ancestors, not as a punisher of sins, but in later mythology he became known as the just judge (Dharmaraja) who weighs the good and evil deeds of the dead and determines retribution. He is described as majestic in appearance, green or black, with red eyes and red garments. He carries a noose and a mace, which may be ornamented with a skull, and rides a buffalo. His two four-eyed dogs guard the entrance to his kingdom, and the crow and the pigeon act as his messengers. Yama has also passed over into Buddhist mythology in Tibet, China, and Japan, where he occupies a similar but minor role as the guardian of the abode of the dead."
I think it is just as disgusting for Zimbabwe to allow hunters to take down lions as India to export bovine beef.
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