Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes 409
another random user writes with bad news from the BBC for anybody who enjoys a hamburger now and again:
"Meat-eaters 'easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes,' according to a controversial school textbook available in India. New Healthway, a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, is printed by one of India's leading publishers. 'This is poisonous for children,' Janaki Rajan of the Faculty of Education at Jamia Millia University in Delhi told the BBC. 'The government has the power to take action, but they are washing their hands of it,' she said. 'The strongest argument that meat is not essential food is the fact that the Creator of this Universe did not include meat in the original diet for Adam and Eve. He gave them fruits, nuts and vegetables,' reads a chapter entitled Do We Need Flesh Food? The chapter details the 'benefits' of a vegetarian diet and goes on to list 'some of the characteristics' found among non-vegetarians. 'They easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes,' it says."
Re:To much convenient (Score:3, Informative)
As an Indian, living there - I can tell you in India, the lower and poor people are the ones who eat meat - there's no big demand for it, and, thus, the prices are below what vegetables cost!
Re:PETA agrees! (Score:4, Informative)
About 15%, though, if you count both Muslims (some 13%) and Christians (about 2%). That still means most don't, by far, but more do than one might think.
Re:Sounds like American textbooks (Score:2, Informative)
Sorry, not racism - that very much IS how affirmative action works. Minorities receive opportunities just because they are minorities, and even though they are less qualified.
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Hmm ... (Score:5, Informative)
... obligatory Nazism reference ...
Do you know that Hitler was a vegetarian?