Baobobtree
13 March 2012, 03:27 AM
Namaste all.
Though I've always regarded vegetarianism as being more moral than meat-eating, and something I want to pick up one day, I don't regard meat-eating as being incompatible with being a Hindu. However, today I had a very disturbing revelation, while eating a salisbury steak with cheese melted on top. How cruel and ironic it was I thought to garnish the dead cropse of the male cow, with the milk of the female. I've decided this "one day" to pick up vegetarianism should be today, or at least today should be the day when I get started on this path.
I want to cut out beef, and pork completely, hopefully poultry as well, but I forsee myself continuing to eat eggs and seafood at least until I get out of the house (I am finishing my last year of high school and am thus living with my parents). Unfortunately, both where I live, and outside of the Indian subcontinent in general, non-kill dairy is virtually non-existent. Thus, even if I abstain from eating beef, as long as I consume dairy I am supporting the premature slaughter of dairy cows, once they become barren, and the shipping off of their male calves to veal farms, where they will meet an even more premature and grizzly death.
So, I am hoping on consuming milk, and cheese alternatives instead. My sister is lactose intolerant, so we already have soy milk in the house, but I am curious to know what is avaliable for cheese alternatives out there, specifically in Canada?
Though I've always regarded vegetarianism as being more moral than meat-eating, and something I want to pick up one day, I don't regard meat-eating as being incompatible with being a Hindu. However, today I had a very disturbing revelation, while eating a salisbury steak with cheese melted on top. How cruel and ironic it was I thought to garnish the dead cropse of the male cow, with the milk of the female. I've decided this "one day" to pick up vegetarianism should be today, or at least today should be the day when I get started on this path.
I want to cut out beef, and pork completely, hopefully poultry as well, but I forsee myself continuing to eat eggs and seafood at least until I get out of the house (I am finishing my last year of high school and am thus living with my parents). Unfortunately, both where I live, and outside of the Indian subcontinent in general, non-kill dairy is virtually non-existent. Thus, even if I abstain from eating beef, as long as I consume dairy I am supporting the premature slaughter of dairy cows, once they become barren, and the shipping off of their male calves to veal farms, where they will meet an even more premature and grizzly death.
So, I am hoping on consuming milk, and cheese alternatives instead. My sister is lactose intolerant, so we already have soy milk in the house, but I am curious to know what is avaliable for cheese alternatives out there, specifically in Canada?