The King and I shall debate this!
I moo - moot (sorry, I couldn't stop that) the topic “being a veggie is good for your health and your planet's”.
I do understand the lion's point of view however, I think that they must stop eating us and take to green grass and people too should change their eating habits. Green grass is good for everybody! In India, a billion people live with a cattle population of about 300 million and a buffalo population of nearly 100 million. Oh! why did I tell you that? Anyway familiarity and large population definitely breed contempt. But that is no argument for slaughtering us! Of course, I know it does not happen here in India. This is for the sake of argument though. I do not know who is arguing with me. I am confused. The methane I generate affects my thinking.
By the way, I wish to explain certain terms. Everybody knows them but few really know them. Confused? Well, methane affects us all.
Bovine world?
What was I saying? Ah, yes! Those words. Cattle refers to only cows and bulls. On the other hand — which hand would that be? Right or left? I am not sure; anyway, bovine includes buffalo, cattle, bison, gaur and kudu. Another one is livestock. It includes all farm animals like cows, pigs, goats, sheep and us. Sorry, I said cows at the start.
What was I going to tell you next? Yes, yes I got it. It is about that cow slaughter ban in India. It surely is the right thing. We provide milk and udder, I mean other dairy products; we work as draught animals in farms. We provide organic manure and we supply raw material for bio-gas plants. So does it make sense to kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Hope you understand. I am not a goose and I definitely do not lay eggs, let alone a golden one. You do get the idea, don't you?
Why did I mention goose eggs? Umm, not sure. . . but while on the subject, let me tell you they are slightly bigger than a hen's.
Never mind that. As I was saying, India produces about 95 million tonnes of milk every year. We are the world's number one in milk production! We also have the maximum number of buffaloes in the world.
Now my closing arguments in the form of slogans:
Go veggie! Leave us alone!
Say NO to plastics!
Tax gas emitters!
Save the whales!
Did I convince you?
Milch cow
Reply from Aristotle
Dear Ms Greenhouse gas-emitter! Global-warming accelerator!
You should be the one to be heavily taxed for your burps and your letters. Ban the cow-writer, I say!
BTW, yes, you did convince me. One should not buy whales in plastic bags.
