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In answer, let him be reminded that neither do the Vedas contain the cult of cow-worship. The Vedic Rishis themselves were robust meat-eaters. In any case, I can assure you from my personal experience that the average Hindu is not particularly human-more so than any other group of bipeds on a similar cultural level. Believe me, I have been inhumanly treated by them.
Next I incidentally touch also the cult of vegetarianism. Being the member of a carnivorous species, I naturally feel very strongly on this point. My race is hated by the Hindu ostensibly because it is carnivorous. Every time I caught a prey, my orthodox Hindu neighbours looked upon me as an irredeemable sinner,-as the most hateful animal profaning God's earth. Well, I should not anticipate. My experience will be related by and by. Now only a few words about vegetarianism as a justification for the unreasonable aversion to cowkilling.
Firstly, if any religion sanctions the cating of some sort of meat, there is absolutely no reason to prohibit a particular kind. If to eat meat is bad for body and soul, goat's meat should not be differently treated from beef. Total vegetarianism, preached and practised only by certain Hindu sects and castes, is no more reasonable. It may be justified by the dogma of the three Gunas; but scientifically, that is all nonsense. There is little difference between meat and vegetable in the strict
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