Your perspective of our food choice!

The topic could as well put it otherwise.. like " Our perspective of your FOod Choice. still it gives some dimension on what I am trying convey at large.

I care about Humans and so in a sense I care about animals as well. The time and reason I chose to be a vegetarian was a very crucial in my life. It was a festival day and I was about 15 yrs old. In India different people celebrate the Diwali festival in different ways. Some have vegetarian food and some have mutton (goat meat). Our family is half to middle are vegetarians; to be precise all men are meat eaters and all women are vegetarians. On festival days we don’t cook meat as it is considered unreligious. But in our village where I came from, as the demand for the meat was more on that particular day, they opened a temporary goat slaughter place near our house for that day alone. I have never before been to a place where animals are killed and have never seen the kind of pain they undergo whilst they are in the hands of their life-takers to end their live to suit human’s palatability. On that day, I saw blood flowing from that place as more and more goats are killed. That scene shocked me and I was speechless and was staring at the action of those butchers with no idea going on my mind for quite sometime. After sometime, it seems they ran out of animals, such was the demand and they dragged a she goat which was tied very close to that culling place, that it could visibly see all it’s mates getting killed. I think, it was the last animal left on that lot. I could see its stomach slightly bigger than usual. Alas, I watched it crying and I couldn't stand there to see that scene. I turned my face although I still was inquisitive of how would it look inside an animal, which made me stop and watch it further. Half my mind wants to leave the place, such was the inquisitive mind of mine at that age when I want to witness that horrible thing, my inner mind perhaps the unconscious conscience doesn’t want me to witness the atrocity done to an animal which could express it pain. That was, I could say the first struggle in my mind in taking an action. I guess my conscience won over my inquisitiveness. So I decided to go and buy the crackers the actual purpose of me coming out our home and on my way back I saw through the gap of the legs of people crowded there whom I guess are the reason for the high demand for mutton, unborn goats with white skin shining with the little light from the near by shops falling on them. This time I couldn’t stand there to watch what it would be like inside those foetal goats and it took almost more than a week to digest the first horrible scene in my life. I lost sleep and we didn't have the culture of having an open talk with parents and talk about our fears to elders or others in our family, as I was afraid that I might be laughed at. And it was the last time I have ever thought about eating animals for almost 13 years.
Have I had the mental maturity I have now at that time, I would be really appreciating the butcher for the minuscule kindness left in his heart to give the pregnant goat a chance to live by giving it the last choice of being culled, although the demand for meat exceeded his wish of sparing it’s and it’s unborn foetus life on that day.
As time moved on, the perspective changed and newer ideas about the food chain evolved and when I visited the UK for higher studies I was encouraged by my friends to eat meat as they thought I may find it difficult to withstand the cold and the choices for vegetarians are not encouraging. And so I started eating chicken alone after some health ailment and doctor’s advice and for sometime it went well. Soon I started developing allergic symptoms like itching and I stopped eating it and decided to be happy as before as a vegetarian. Honestly, I knew and was very sensitive of the changes in my body, thought process and the difference in peace of mind I was having whilst I had meat and whilst I hadn’t.
I am not an anti-non-vegetarian. If you see the big picture, the meat eaters are in a way helping vegetarians get vegetables by limiting the herbivores numbers so that we could get enough crop area to cultivate our plant based food. So I am not having any aversion against meat eaters. I understand that we all have to coexist. But, what it matters is the number of people eating meat, I think ought to be less than the number of people who are vegetarians. That's how the ecosystem could attain a sensible equilibrium. The best example is to look at the forest and see the ratio of the numbers of herbivores to that of the numbers of carnivores and compare it with that of a population's food habit in any city. I can guarantee that it never co-relates. I may appear not making sense by having a comparison like that, where the carnivores in the forest eat the herbivores, where in the city non-vegetarians are not eating other vegetarian human beings. But the ecosystem expects you to have a balance of more vegetarians and less non vegetarians so that there would be a good amount of green area for us to provide air and water and at the same time we will also have a good amount of herbivores to have some control over the ever expanding green area which if not been kept under control we will only have forest fires and other destructive mechanisms which only would add to global temperatures and smog etc,. The repercussions are imaginable.
So I seriously suggest that those who had the patience to read this article, please spread the message of contributing to the ecosystem as a vegetarian to those who are already vegetarians and who wants to become one. Also request them to keep up their numbers by any means. Also please talk to those non-vegetarians as well so that they could keep their number under control and not advice their near and dears about the tasty and mouth-watering dishes they are having and most importantly advice them to not stop eating meat as in future it would be very difficult to get non-vegetarians number increased as everyone then will be very concerned about their health and will be engaged in having more fibre foods leaving us with no choice but mere killing the animals to control there numbers and send them for funeral.
So, I guess you got the big picture. If you didn’t get it, you are perhaps either seeing this issue as a tree from a very long distance that you have no visibility of the tree or you are too close to this issue that you could only see the branches of this tree. No matter how reliable or appreciable my stand could be, say for a majority of people if we have one, I never would underestimate or disrespect the other side of my ideology, even if it is a very contrasting one as day and night. After all, I guess the world revolves around the sun with an equilibrium of pulling and/or pushing forces between the sun and no one knows what else.