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 DEBASISH ROY
You are what you eat. Dieticians and mothers agree to that worldwide. That explains why Frenchmen crawl around in thin shell like bodies just as snails do, Spaniards and Portuguese usually have rosso porto faces and look like cured ham, Koreans girls have chubby cheeks like tiger testicles, Thais have flat faces like Olive Ridley turtle shells, Japanese have a whale of an appetite for killing work, negroes in America have lips which look like hamburger buns (the tongue looks a lot like toasted meat) and politicians in India have flitting eyes like that of a doe.
This is also quite clear when you buy consumer electronics products or other products made around the world. The integrated circuits made in Spain or France are outdated by at least three years. Remember they eat ham after they have cured it by hanging it in sea air for one whole year.
The delay does not bother them. On the other hand, the Japanese are agile like the largest mammal they butcher regularly under the guise of research. Their electronics is off the blocks before you can say Toyota.
The French ordnance electronics for their fighter jets such as Mirage 2005 is state of the art and every test pilot worth his salt vows it is a dream machine. No wonder, it is just like a lovingly cooked dainty and subtle French dish of horse meat coupled with so soft wine. The Mongolians butcher goats so that they can sprinkle its fresh blood on newly constructed buildings. They say it brings good luck.
The construction industry has taken off in China with lots of foreign direct investment but it never took off in Mongolia. Somebody got their goat, no doubt. Koreans also hang live dogs upside down and beat them to death so that they can eat their soft meat. Sounds like they are frustrated as they are the only Communist nation left in the world. Why take it out on the pooches? Why can't trigger happy Bush do something about it? Will something happen if we pretended that Korean dogs had American passports? Will the CIA act in that situation?
Indians herd buffaloes one on top of the other and tie them with sharp nylon rope. If they still don't fit into the dirty truck, they break their legs and pile them up again. If it wasn't for the forgiving souls animals are, we would have been in purgatory right now. Dante's divine comedy was not written in vain. It was written in India.
The United States has more lawyers than it has buff oprington hens to lay eggs. But it has nice laws to prevent cruelty to animals. It also has laws to maintain cleanliness in abattoirs. The cows and lambs are killed with a electric prod of high voltage to the head. This way the animal does not suffer even a fraction of a second. The animals yet to be slaughtered are kept in a pen which is away from sight of the one animal being slaughtered at that moment. There is no pain or struggle so there is no cruelty. For fundamentalists who point out that killing animals itself if cruelty please read Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose's works on the Crescograph and plant life.
Pain causes shudder. Those who either cause pain or who do not shudder are destined to die a cruel death.
BY DEBASISH ROY
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