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Hidu diet: Cows milk or Mothers Milk ?
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Subject: Hidu diet: Cows milk or Mothers Milk ?
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From: s_nair@spdmail.spd.dsccc.com (Sureshbabu Nair)
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Date: 12 Dec 1995 02:36:01 GMT
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Approved: srh <srh@rbhatnagar>
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Article: 703 of soc.religion.hindu
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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In the discussions on Hindu diet everybody seemed to agree to the practice of human beings taking
Cows milk(forget about hindus taking it).
But my common sense says Cow's milk must be for its Calf.
A buffalo's milk is for its calf, a dogs milk is for its puppies and a MOTHER'S(HUMAN) MILK IS FOR
HER BABY.The natural milk available to any baby animal/human is gift from nature to develop that
particular baby/human. It contains ingredients for the cell development that particular species of animal.
Can somebody explain to me that to develop the brain cells of a human baby and a Calf how the same
ingridients(in this case cow's milk) can be used.Just because the cows milk is digestable we give
it to children. And we cultivate that habit of taking milk and its various derivatives from
childhood onwards. This is morally not correct, we are cheating,depriving a calf the milk due to
it from its mother. We have no right to do that.
By the same logic human babies need to take milk from its mother only. Thats why our mothers
breast feed us. Thats required only at the very young ages until our digestive system develops
to eat other stuff. As we all grow up at some point, we feel shy to drink even our mothers
milk.Why?, because our body no longer require it.It has developed enough capability to digest
other food materials.Look at the beauty of creation here, we got our emotions also developed
to refrain from taking that milk.If a child is left to himself he will stop drinking milk at this
point. But the EDUCATED, BRAIN WASHED PARENT forces a kid to take Cows milk, and that becomes a
habit.
We may be able to justify this prcatice by quoting all scriptures and the story of young krishna
etc. But that doesnt take away the mistake we are doing.All I wanted here was when analazying
so much of scriptures and philosophy of food habits, to point out my simple logic.
That brings us to a Very fundamental question, WHAT ARE WE(MEN) SUPPOSED TO EAT?
My answer would be FRUITS,NUTS and VEGETABLES.This is the food for the human being,as per the
natures food chain, as per our digestive system and as per our morals. Look at fruits, when its
eatable it attracts with its colour,invites with its aroma and tempts us with its taste. There
is no cooking required, nature(sun) itself has prepared for us.The body also can digest this very
easily, it doesnt need to waste its energy in the digestion process itself.
Actually this is a nut shell of my philosophy of food. Iam sure many would like to comment on this.
Please feel free to do so.
Suresh
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