But I never heard them appearing on dinner plates. I understand it changed in later years.
I am not a vegetarian. In fact, I have tasted even (legal) venison in Arunachal Pradesh at a lunch thrown by a tribal chief, but I still balked when I read this:
“EVERY year, 15 million licensed hunters head into America’s forests and fields in search of wild game.
In New York State alone, roughly half a million hunters harvest around 190,000 deer in the fall deer hunting season — that’s close to eight million pounds of venison…”:
STEVEN RINELLA, NYT December 14, 2007
Rest of the article is justification of this slaughter across USA.
I once told my WASP American colleague: You have to kill something at every mealtime.
He laughed.
‘Ugh! There’s so much packaging!’
The Spectator October 27, 2007
In a recent conversation reported in Outlook,CNR Rao laments the fact that the IT industry is leeching away talented youngsters and making a mockery of their skills.He was talking specifically about Bangalore,but the situation is characteristic of the country at large.This seems to have been a topic of discussion on blogs too.As someone who's an insider,in the right place and age group to air his views,I think you can contribute to this discussion.
ReplyDeleteThe discussion Mangesh mentioned can be read here. Would love to hear your views on this topic.
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