What would happen If muslims and dalits stop eating beef?

[fitpOsitive]

I am sipping my tea now and this thought which has occurred to me many times in the past has struck again. What would happen to the millions of buffaloes ,oxen and cows if muslims and dalits by respecting hindu's sentiments stop eating beef?
There are millions of hindus who are benefitting by selling milk and dairy products. Many of us savour many dishes ,sweets made of dairy products. Personally, I am ready to give up eating or drinking anything made of milk and its derivatives (once you stop using those products there wont be demand for cattle and people stop breeding them which in turn helps in complete dwindling of cattle population in 20 to 30 years...)
Unless the entire country is prepared to give up dairy products and their associated businesses, it is not right to blame or look down upon muslims and dalits for eating beef.
Just imagine crores of unkilled cattle roaming around or being burden to their owners. If it is really so reprehensible to eat beef, we should stop consuming dairy products because we are directly encouraging the growth of these animals . Another thing to be noted is it is hindus who sell these cattle to butchers in the markets once they stop producing milk or become old.
Muslims and dalits by consuming beef are allowing us to enjoy things like tea, sweets ,biryani etc.This is the same thing that has been happening for the last 2000 years ever since hindus gave up eating beef.
I don't know how true it but I read and heard that many hindus after moving to the west start eating beef.

You are right, and trust me, you are already a minority in India.

 

[Zapper]

What they do with the Cow(Bull) as they are useless if not used for the meat/Beef...

Bulls are used for breeding since we're the second highest dairy producers in the world and they're also used in agriculture.

 

[undercover JIX]

I am sipping my tea now and this thought which has occurred to me many times in the past has struck again. What would happen to the millions of buffaloes ,oxen and cows if muslims and dalits by respecting hindu's sentiments stop eating beef?
There are millions of hindus who are benefitting by selling milk and dairy products. Many of us savour many dishes ,sweets made of dairy products. Personally, I am ready to give up eating or drinking anything made of milk and its derivatives (once you stop using those products there wont be demand for cattle and people stop breeding them which in turn helps in complete dwindling of cattle population in 20 to 30 years...)
Unless the entire country is prepared to give up dairy products and their associated businesses, it is not right to blame or look down upon muslims and dalits for eating beef.
Just imagine crores of unkilled cattle roaming around or being burden to their owners. If it is really so reprehensible to eat beef, we should stop consuming dairy products because we are directly encouraging the growth of these animals . Another thing to be noted is it is hindus who sell these cattle to butchers in the markets once they stop producing milk or become old.
Muslims and dalits by consuming beef are allowing us to enjoy things like tea, sweets ,biryani etc.This is the same thing that has been happening for the last 2000 years ever since hindus gave up eating beef.
I don't know how true it but I read and heard that many hindus after moving to the west start eating beef.

India will be reclaimed and taken over by old cows, more gobar and mutra for cow loving hindus.

 

[Bilal9]

I am a south indian(I suppose so are you) and we don't eat beef...except in kerala nowhere in south is beef eaten... but muslims and dalits though not looked down upon as much as in north,there is a stigma attached to them...many hindus even here have this low view of dalits and muslims as they eat beef..in fact the one thing they are mostly identified and associated with is beef itself.
I find it's hypocrisy that on one hand we sell our cattle to butchers and on the other hand ,we despise beef eaters.

The belief that cows are sacred is relatively recent development in Hinduism.

Up until recent times, Brahmins were allowed (and sometimes implored) to kill cows.

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Did the Hindus never eat beef?
The adjective Aghnya applied to the cow in the Rig Veda means a cow that was yielding milk and therefore not fit for being killed. That the cow is venerated in the Rig Veda is of course true. But this regard and venerations of the cow are only to be expected from an agricultural community like the Indo-Aryans. This application of the utility of the cow did not prevent the Aryan from killing the cow for purposes of food. Indeed the cow was killed because the cow was regarded as sacred. As observed by Mr Kane:

“It was not that the cow was not sacred in Vedic times, it was because of her sacredness that it is ordained in the Vajasaneyi Samhita that beef should be eaten.”

That the Aryans of the Rig Veda did kill cows for purposes of food and ate beef is abundantly clear from the Rig Veda itself. In Rig Veda (X. 86.14) Indra says:

“They cook for one 15 plus twenty oxen”.

The Rig Veda (X.91.14) says that for Agni were sacrificed horses, bulls, oxen, barren cows and rams. From the Rig Veda (X.72.6) it appears that the cow was killed with a sword or axe.

[…] The correct view is that the testimony of the Satapatha Brahmana and the Apastamba Dharma Sutra in so far as it supports the view that Hindus were against cow-killing and beef-eating, are merely exhortations against the excesses of cow-killing and not prohibitions against cow-killing.

Indeed the exhortations prove that cow-killing and eating of beef had become a common practice. That notwithstanding these exhortations cow-killing and beef-eating continued. That most often they fell on deaf ears is proved by the conduct of Yajnavalkya, the great Rishi of the Aryans. … After listening to the exhortation this is what Yajnavalkya said :

“I, for one, eat it, provided that it is tender”

That the Hindus at one time did kill cows and did eat beef is proved abundantly by the description of the Yajnas given in the Buddhist Sutras which relate to periods much later than the Vedas and the Brahmanas.

The scale on which the slaughter of cows and animals took place was collosal. It is not possible to give a total of such slaughter on all accounts committed by the Brahmins in the name of religion…

Why did non-Brahmins give up beef-eating?
Examining the legislation of Asoka the question is: Did he prohibit the killing of the cow? On this issue there seem to be a difference of opinion… Asoka had no particular interest in the cow and owed no special duty to protect her against killing. Asoka was interested in the sanctity of all life human as well as animal. He felt his duty to prohibit the taking of life where taking of life was not necessary. That is why he prohibited slaughtering animal for sacrifice which he regarded as unnecessary and of animals which are not utilised nor eaten which again would be want on and unnecessary.

That he did not prohibit the slaughter of the cow in specie may well be taken as a fact which for having regard to the Buddhist attitude in the matter cannot be used against Asoka as a ground for casting blame.

Coming to Manu there is no doubt that he too did not prohibit the slaughter of the cow. On the other hand he made the eating of cow’s flesh on certain occasions obligatory.
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I rest my case...

 

[Imran Khan]

this is stupidity cow is just an animal like other animals . and why talking about muslims and dalits only ? christians also consume beef . the same french you guys hailing also consume beef . USA which been worshiped by indians is world number 4 beef consumer per capita .

and per country %

 

[paritosh]

@aryadravida, I don't think there is any compulsory eating of beef in Islamic teachings. Beef is just a regional food. Nothing would happen if beef is not eaten by Muslims.

I have written multiple times on PDF that India would do well to manufacture lab / artificial beef ( read this ) on large scale. This would cover the sensitivities of certain communities in India while continuing consumption of beef for other communities.

Artificial meat is expensive to produce right now isn’t it?
I personally think that our dietary preferences are nobody’s business, but for ecological reasons, we may have to cut down our meat consumption drastically.

 

[jamahir]

Artificial meat is expensive to produce right now isn’t it? I personally think that our dietary preferences are nobody’s business, but for ecological reasons, we may have to cut down our meat consumption drastically.

It seems to be expensive but I think with mass production the cost will reduce. If this cannot be done then henceforth meat should become an occasional eat like say a chocolate cake, to answer to your ecology point.

The best, cheap and easily available form of protein is chicken egg.