#Human Nature
"Large number of tribes, Dalits and Backward Castes have a historical food culture of beef. The anti-beef agenda has been in the Brahmanical fold. It began with the South Indian Brahmins and then spread to the North and became part of the Gandhian movement. My question is, how can the state impose a certain food culture on people? The state has nothing to do with food. They can give certain food to people depending on the market, but cannot impose that you can or cannot eat certain food items. If beef eating is bad for Brahmins or Baniyas or certain upper castes, then the state is imposing that on the rest of the society. So the state is actually becoming a theocratic state."
React to this quote
More by Kancha Ilaiah
See allResonant Thoughts
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Any casual observer of humankind will have been struck by the incongruity with which we may lavish great pa…"
— Roberto Mangabeira Unger"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good,…"
— Marie Curie"As Buddhists, while we practice our own teaching, we must respect other faiths, Christianity, Judaism and s…"
— 14th Dalai Lama"Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature."
— Orson Welles"The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly …"
— Bhagat Singh"Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
— George Orwell
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- Albert Einstein on Human Nature
- Stephen Jay Gould on Human Nature
- Carl Sagan on Human Nature
- Michael Parenti on Human Nature
- Albert Einstein on life
- Albert Einstein on science
- Albert Einstein on knowledge
- Albert Einstein on mind
- Albert Einstein on religion
- Albert Einstein on philosophy
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change
