My son and I were out to the market one day. We passed by a butcher’s shop where we heard the bleating of the chicken being slaughtered. There was also this chap on a bicycle ready to lug his cargo of alive chicken. There must be at least 50 of them tied in two batches in the front and back on top of each other with their necks drooping as if resigned to their fate. Sid sees them and looks shocked. He asks me, “Look at the way he is carrying these poor things.” I nodded my head feeling sad myself. He then went on, “It is terrible that they will be killed, and we will end up eating them.” I agreed.
He told me that the other day in school, his teacher asked which is the most dangerous animal? Many kids answered lion, tiger and the like. But, Sir said it is human beings. We kill when we don’t have to! “Do you think that I should stop eating non-vegetarian food?” he said. I replied, “This is the decision only you can take.”
To explain further, I told him how his own grandmother (my mother) never ate non-vegetarian food, but she cooked for us kids and never actually told us what we should do. Each of us 3 siblings gave up eating non-vegetarian food at some time in our lives. My sister and I started eating after our marriages though not under coercion from our spouses, but my brother still is a vegetarian, though his wife is a non-vegetarian.
So, the decision is yours to take! I think, that left him even more confused. I think this confusion is good. After all, life is not always black and white; there is a lot of grey.
PS: I believe that the choices we make in our life must be based on our own free will and convictions and not based on heckling or pressuring.
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