Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes

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."

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Re:MMMMMMMM

[MrEricSir]

According to this Indian textbook I just read, you must have stolen that burrito and now you're lying about how good it tastes.

Of course, so do vegetarians...

[gestalt_n_pepper]

and don't even get me started on Breatharians.....

It's a typesetting error.

[msauve]

'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.

That was supposed to go in the section on politicians.

Re:It's a typesetting error.

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know why people are not able to see that the book is actually somewhat accurate. Eating meat raises testosterone, more testosterone more aggressiveness and more drive. More aggressiveness and drive, more selfish acts (the end justifies the means). More testosterone, more sex drive, and for those that have a high sex drive we know how painful it can be resisting "the urge". This book seems to be right. I eat a f*** load of meat.

Re:It's a typesetting error.

[narcc]

Unless you think every bald guy you've ever met is a lying, thieving, two faced, rapist.

Now that you mention it...

Re:It's a typesetting error.

[TFAFalcon]

Think how much better the outcome would have been if Eve had roasted the snake for Adam, instead of settling for the apple.

Re:PETA agrees!

[sortius_nod]

Really, am I going to have to be the one who Godwins this article?

Hitler regarded himself as a vegetarian...

Re:India

[craigminah]

All your base are belong to us.

Re:MMMMMMMM

[Smallpond]

Of course they're a tad high. Some of the best shit in the world comes from India. Oh. You mean ... never mind..

Your Sacred Cow ...

[srobert]

... is my hamburger.

Re:India

[Anonymous Coward]

Do the needful.

The upgradation process has completed.

I just sent you an instant message to tell you about the e-mail I sent, so that you'd know that I called you, both on your desk phone and cell phone about a request I just submitted 13 seconds ago. Tell me, done when it will be?
I will call your phones again in 30 seconds to let you know about the instant message informing you of the e-mail, regarding the 2 phone calls, so that i may ask yet again why it is not done yet.

Re:MMMMMMMM

[houghi]

The government is lying to you. I do not even have to ask what country you are from, because that is irrelevant.

This is because humans lie. You lie to others about how their baby looks. Darn, you lie to yourself how YOUR baby looks.

Re:India

[TheGratefulNet]

you mean 'all your Bouillabaisse are belong to us'.

I think that's what you meant.

Re:Sounds like American textbooks

[Larryish]

There are even recent studies that find that resumes which hint at an applicant being black get a lower response rate than those who don't...

I am a USA-ian. My upstream apes were of English/European descent. I am very glad they didn't name me "Barnaby" or "Horatio". And none of my sisters are named "Fanny" or Mathilda". If we had ridiculous-sounding names, we would have had a harder time of it.

And if my parents had named me "Colton" or "Joe-Bob", or my sisters "Charlene" or "Tamara", employers may have assumed that we were descended from trailer-trash NASCAR-and-pro-wrestling types.

That is simple common sense.

So why do black folk name their kids "Shantiqua" and "Jaeqwan"?

A black guy named "David" or "James" tells me that his parents may have been worthwhile people and good role models.

A black guy named "Laquon" or "Mustafa" tells me that his parents are welfare-check-having malt-liquor-drinking Jerry Springer watchers and the offspring likely share those traits.

Of course the black folk think dark-skinned "David" is "too white", I mean the NERVE of that guy! Having that fancy "job" and being "married" to his baby-mama. How DARE he!

I know those are horrible stereotypes, but the world is a real place and people DO stereotype other people. It is the whole "first impression" bit.

Seems like an intelligent person would realize this, and allow for it while selecting baby names.. ?

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