Not a vegan!

When I was young my father said "Gal I have something to say” 

And what he told me, I'll never forget until my dyin' day

He said, "Gal, you will be a non-veg lass and that's the way to stay

Gal,  stay off hay and grass until your dyin’ day’                                                                           

As time goes by, I probably will get cholesterol problem and so on

Then I may have to eat shoots and leaves and join the rest of the clan 
Until then I will be Non veg lass and that’s the way I will stay

Happy to be a non-veg lass till my dyin’ day

(credit to Cliff Richard’s Bachelor Boy)

That’s the story on why I am a die hard non-veggie. I firmly believe that man is essentially an Omnivore, meaning he can eat anything and that includes non- vegetarian foods.

Vegetarians, Lacto vegetarians and Ova-vegetarians, I present to you my case on why man was designed to eat animal protein.

Back in the cave-man days, men who could not hunt, ride a horse or throw a spear were called vegetarians and ate grass, leaves and fruits which grew near the caves. 

Strictly speaking a person who has milk, butter and cheese is not a vegetarian as these are sourced from animals too.One could call them lacto-vegetarians. And then we have Ova-vegetarian (Egg eaters) and then the Pescetarians (Sea animal eaters)

Now moving on to more scientific thinking.

EVIDENCE NO-1    All animal based protein source like meat, chicken, eggs and diary products require an acid base for digestion. Fruits and vegetables require an alkaline medium. The ability of carnivores  to secrete Hydrocloric Acid is exceptional. MAN HAS AN ACID PH. If he was designed to be a vegetarian, why does he have an acidic pH?

EVIDENCE NO-2  If man is truly a vegetarian as the vegetarians claim that we are, then we should be having the enzyme called Cellulase like the cattle to digest cellulose… ( you may know this as ‘fibre’)  MAN DOES NOT PRODUCE CELLULASE …never did and probably never will.

EVIDENCE NO- 3 . Our intestinal length is about 23 feet about 7 times the body length from mouth -to- end of spine.. Cats and dogs have 4 times the length and horse and cattle have about 20 times. We are somewhere in between suggesting that we were designed to eat both.

EVIDENCE NO- 4 . Our dentition is suited both to tackle bones and vegetables. Check it out... we have pointed teeth and flat teeth as well. 

EVIDENCE NO- 5 . We have a simple single chamber stomach unlike the grass eating animals    

RELATED STUFF - There was a news report in Tamil daily on 3rd Dec 2012 that a goat was found eating cooked mutton... Damn... This cannibalism has got money written over it !! We may soon have lamb-fed lamb at the stores. 

Vegans ... I am ready to hear your point of view. 

Friends - Finding and Fending

I've made an important discovery recently and it is not a lip plumping lipstick, or a new brand of Wonderbra ... not even how to make your ass look tighter. 

(To what extent one needs to go to get eyeballs on da blog) Anyways .. guess they worked and I have your attention since the topic is a little uninspiring 

It's on friendships... Connections. I discovered that sometimes certain people are thrust into our lives for a reason and some for no reason. 

Let me fill you on why I got this thought. I have been living in this apartment along with 25 other families for the past 10 years. I don't know their names excepting one who happens to be my close friend. One fine day, disturbing my post noon nap, I get a call from one of them requesting me to attend a ' Get-to know-your neighbors session' asap. She remembered that I existed and called to invite me only after my friend brought my absence to her notice. Do I want to know her? I mean we have been co-existing peacefully for several years without knowing each other. Would I want to upset this equilibrium.? The answer is a clear ' No'. However I did attend the meet, had the chaat and stuff and came back without knowing any of their names. 


Coming back to friendships. After a while, we kind of get so used to our existing friends that the very idea of taking trouble to know someone new is alarming. The majority of my friendships have been class mates, college mates, work colleagues and weight watchers at my gym.  And there are those who are not connected in any way, but I guess they are there for some reason. Familiarity may breed contempt but maintaining a known devil as a friend is easier!

Just occurred to me that the difference between a romantic relationship and platonic friendship is that love is blind whereas friendship tries not to notice. The one I am addressing here is a mutualistic symbiotic relationship. Yes, I need them. Need them as much as I need the good bacteria in my intestine. I house around 30 - 40 species of them. But do they need to get introduced to me like 'I am Peptococcus ....Peptostreptococcus' a la Bond style!!!

Anyways, its my turn to host the next get-together. Not sure how to wriggle out of this predicament. Shall let you guys know how it went. 

"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones" 

-  Oscar Wilde. (1852)

"I know everything about my old friends and I want to know nothing about the new ones '               - Oscar Wilde ( 2012)