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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[fermion]

In Texas the legislature may just put into law that Critical thinking is bad because it makes children disobey their parents.

For years we were told that milk would make us strong. Milk is still served as the sole diary, even though many kids are intolerant of it. For a time yogurt was served instead of milk. Cheese is also good, but children are taught processed cheese is just like real cheese.

There is a fight against distinguishing the various forms of sugars, but children are taught that animal protein is superior to vegetable protien, and that a McDonalds hambuger is a superior meal to quinoe pilaf, or that the cheap sausage that so many kids eat is superior to a bowl of oatmeal with an egg.

Even worse, schools and the media hardly every talk about the difference between a complex and simple carbohydrate. Most will equate eating candy with eating a whole grain. Somehow a baked potato is inferior to a barbqued ribs with the sauce full of simple carbohydrate.

I am sure this is going to make all those indignant meat eaters faint from the nerve of those people who disagree with them, but get over it. Not everyone believes that meat is neccesary, and much of the world is very healthy with minimum or no meat. Not all economies are built on selling junk to kids. Some economies fund health care fully, so there is no advantage to making people sick so that MBAs can get rich by taking a cut of inflated health care costs.

And all countries tell little white lies to push people in the direction they want them to go. Like kissing causes pregnancy. Or condoms don't protect against STDs. Or meat is needed to be healthy. Or eating the occasional junk, or smoking, or anyother of silly things, is going to cause no harm.

Re:Sounds like American textbooks

[MrEricSir]

Or how about a website where people post comments where they intentionally misinterpret how affirmative action works to justify their racism?

Re:PETA agrees!

[Zontar The Mindless]

There's effectively no difference. They're all 3 based on the same central (and false) premise, and differ only in the window dressing.