Meat-eaters 'commit sex crimes'

[RalphC]

Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes", according to a controversial school textbook available in India reports BBC News.

 

New Healthway, a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, is printed by one of India's leading publishers.

 

Academics have urged the government to exercise greater control.

 

But the authorities say schools should monitor content as they are responsible for the choice of textbooks.

 

"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.

 

It is not known which Indian schools have bought the book for their students, but correspondents say what is worrying is that such a book is available to students.

 

"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.

 

The chapter, full of factual inaccuracies, refers to Eskimos (Inuit) as "lazy, sluggish and short-lived", because they live on "a diet largely of meat".

 

It adds: "The Arabs who helped in constructing the Suez Canal lived on wheat and dates and were superior to the beef-fed Englishmen engaged in the same work."

 

The publishers, S Chand, did not respond to the BBC's requests for a comment.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20354669

[The Mayor Of Simpleton]

A load of beefy b*llocks if you ask me.

[Big J R]

A load of beefy b*llocks if you ask me.

 

Isn't that one of the bush-tucker trials out in Oz ???

[missunderstood]

A load of beefy b*llocks if you ask me.

 

No animal has ever tried to eat me, so why should we eat them. Meat eatings a filthy habit IMO

[The Mayor Of Simpleton]

I'm not sure that I could live without meat.

 

I know the argument is that going vegetarian is supposedly better for you, and having seen what shape Def Leppard's Phil Collen is in after making the transition to vegetarianism then it is tempting.

 

The problem I have found with most vegetarians is that they are 'always cold'. Having worked in an office with five vegetarians, they were always complaining about being cold even when it was boiling hot outside:

 

'Oh, don't open the window - I'll get cold...'

 

'COLD? It's like a flamin' AGA in here!'

[Loose]

We've got meat eating teeth and digestive systems for a reason, let's not waste them on nut cutlet.

[missunderstood]

I'm not sure that I could live without meat.

 

I know the argument is that going vegetarian is supposedly better for you, and having seen what shape Def Leppard's Phil Collen is in after making the transition to vegetarianism then it is tempting.

 

The problem I have found with most vegetarians is that they are 'always cold'. Having worked in an office with five vegetarians, they were always complaining about being cold even when it was boiling hot outside:

 

'Oh, don't open the window - I'll get cold...'

 

'COLD? It's like a flamin' AGA in here!'

 

The only cold I feel is in the glass of a nicely chilled red wine.