An appetite for losses. A taste for victory. 🔴⚫. 𝗩𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗮.𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻.
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Arpit Shah retweeted
在屠宰场干了5年，告诉你一个秘密：动物今天要死，它们全都知道
我在屠宰场干了整整五年，每天跟猪牛羊打交道，见过的生死场面成千上万。说句掏心窝子的话，没入这行之前，我跟大伙儿一样，觉得牲口嘛，吃吃睡睡，稀里糊涂一辈子，哪懂什么生死。可五年下来，我摸透了它们每一个眼神、每一个动作，才发现自己当初多天真——这些不会说话的家伙，心里跟明镜似的，自己哪天走，清清楚楚。
平日里，待宰圈那叫一个热闹。猪拱猪、羊顶羊，抢食的打闹的，眼神清亮温顺，该吃吃该喝喝，天塌下来都不耽误长膘。可一到屠宰当天，那气氛说变就变，比翻书还快。整圈牲畜像商量好了似的，瞬间安静下来，挤成一团，紧紧挨着彼此，浑身抖得跟筛糠一样。那抖不是冻的，是打骨头缝里渗出来的恐惧。你赶它走，它四只脚死死扒着地，几百斤的大猪平时一轰就跑，那天愣是钉在原地往后缩，好像前面那条通道是鬼门关。老话讲“万物有灵”，我原先半信半疑，后来彻底信了。
牛的表现更让人心里发酸。但凡当天要走的牛，从早上起就不吃不喝，低着头杵在墙角，一动不动。我亲眼见过无数次，大颗大颗的泪珠子顺着牛眼角往下滚，湿漉漉的眼睛望着你，不挣不扎不吼叫，就那么默默流泪。有一回，一头养了好几年的老牛被主人牵来，主人站栏杆外看了一眼，那牛瞬间红了眼眶，直勾勾盯着主人，温顺又卑微，一步三回头地跟着我们走。那画面，我这辈子忘不掉。羊也一样，平时蹦蹦跳跳软软糯糯，临了却异常安静，紧紧偎着同伴发抖。赶别的羊成群往前冲，唯独那天，你推我挤谁都不肯带头，偶尔被单独牵出来的小羊，发出细细的凄厉叫声，不是闹腾，是真害怕。
时间一长，我们工人不用看单据不用记编号，单凭状态就能判断个八九不离十——活蹦乱跳的是来日方长，沉默发抖、不吃不喝、眼神惶恐的，全是今日宿命。你说它们听不懂人话、看不懂流程，怎么就掐得这么准？其实道理不复杂，流水线一开，前面的同伴一个个消失再没回来，后面的全看在眼里；环境里那股肃杀的气息、同类压抑的悲鸣，它们比人敏感百倍。俗话说“蝼蚁尚且贪生”，何况这些大牲口？它们沉默、发抖、流泪，不是傻，是无力回天的绝望。
五年下来，我这心态彻底翻了个个儿。刚入行那会儿年轻心硬，只当是谋生糊口的活儿，见多了也就麻木了。可干得越久，心越软，越觉得该存一份敬畏。走出屠宰场，我再也不糟蹋粮食，每一块肉背后都是一条热烈活过、恐惧过、挣扎过的命。它们从出生到落幕，没做错任何事，却坦然接受了既定的安排。反观咱们，衣食无忧平安顺遂，倒常常为鸡毛蒜皮纠结、为一点得失内耗，想想真有点滑稽。
所以你看，活着本身就是天大的福气。所有的矫情、焦虑、委屈，搁在生死面前，屁都不是。心存敬畏，懂得珍惜，善待万物，大概就是人这辈子最好的修行。说到这儿我倒想问问你——下次端起饭碗的时候，会不会也想起那些沉默发抖的生灵，然后觉得，眼前这口热乎饭，真香？
Arpit Shah retweeted
In all of the wars in human history combined, 600 million people have been killed.
Humans kill this many animals (95% being chickens and fish) every 5 days.
EVERY. FIVE. DAYS.
Please RT. 🤯
Arpit Shah retweeted
from my article "Amnesia of animal eaters":
"... Yet India is still the one country standing out in the world: it has the greatest percentage of vegetarians and is therefore comparatively good to animals.
By far the greater (legal) crime of even unimaginable proportions is committed in the western world, only – there it is hidden and euphemised in language. It is a clever business strategy, because who would like to know that he chews on a cadaver of an animal that had a pitiful life? So, the meat is made to appear as if it is not connected to a formerly living being.
Nobody, except those who work in the ‘meat industry’, is confronted with the brutality involved. Those who eat meat, and in the west almost everyone does, betray a total amnesia about the torture and slaughter of ‘live stock’.
Swami Chidanand of Parmarth Ashram in Rishikesh wrote a small book titled “Vegetariansm: for your body, your mind, your soul and your planet” and gives chilling facts:
in USA alone some 20 million chicken and 90.000 cows are butchered every day.
In a year over 10 billion animals are slaughtered in USA alone. The numbers are inconceivable and don’t convey the suffering and fear of each single one of those creatures who have done no harm to us....
... Swami Chidanand mentions that the national news network in the US broadcasted videotapes of the world’s biggest meat packing company.
“The tapes showed struggling, conscious cows hoisted upside down and butchered…
fully conscious cows were skinned alive, their legs cut off while struggling for freedom.
Cows were shown being hit repeatedly with stunning devices that did not work.
Other cows were tortured and repeatedly shocked with cattle prods and workers were shown shoving an electric prod into a cow’s mouth....
... Campaigning for animal rights is incomplete and insincere if it includes only those animals that are out in the open and excludes our animal brothers and sisters who are mercilessly pushed into slaughterhouses and brutally butchered and then eaten up by animal eaters in a ‘civilised’ manner."
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Arpit Shah retweeted
The “80% of Indians are non-vegetarian” claim needs some context.
NFHS-5 found that 83.4% of men and 70.6% of women aged 15–49 reported eating fish, chicken or meat daily, weekly or occasionally. But this is a frequency category, not a measure of whether meat constitutes a substantial part of someone’s diet. More importantly, NFHS-5 separately reports a much lower weekly consumption at 57.3% for men and 45.1% for women. The survey also shows that almost everyone consumes pulses/beans, fruits and green leafy vegetables, while 96.2% of men and 94.2% of women consume milk or curd daily, weekly or occasionally. So “80% non-vegetarian” certainly does not mean that 80% of Indians follow predominantly meat-based diets.
India’s culinary civilisation has never been defined by meat alone. Rice, wheat, millets, pulses, lentils, vegetables, fruits, milk, curd, ghee, oils, spices and seasonal produce form an enormous part of our food traditions. Meat and fish are equally part of India’s culinary diversity, but their place varies enormously by region, community, culture, geography and occasion.
So using a survey category to argue that vegetarian food does not represent “authentic India” is a category error. India can have a large non-vegetarian population and still have a culinary culture deeply shaped by plant-based staples.
Gandhiji understood this distinction. Addressing the London Vegetarian Society on 20 November 1931, he said: “I belong to a country which is predominantly vegetarian by habit or necessity.” He also explained: “The basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral.”
The point is not to pit vegetarian food against non-vegetarian food. India is too diverse for either to have a monopoly on authenticity. A vegetarian spread can be every bit as Indian, indigenous and representative of our culinary civilisation as a non-vegetarian one.
Arpit Shah retweeted
When I hosted the President of #India for State Dinner on the first such visit to a #Nordic country, I also offered an all-vegetarian menu. More than 20 years ago! And in #Iceland where it is not easy to be vegetarian!!
People are mocking this BRICS state dinner because it is vegetarian.
This is not “just a vegetarian menu.” It is a carefully curated showcase of Indian ingredients, regional traditions and fine-dining technique.
Look at what is actually on the table:
• Gucchi / Himalayan morels — among India’s most prized mushrooms. They grow seasonally in Himalayan regions, are difficult to source in quantity and are traditionally hand-collected, which is why good-quality morels command premium prices.
• Saffron — one of the world’s most expensive spices by weight. Thousands of delicate crocus flowers are needed to produce a small amount of saffron.
• Mamra almonds — a premium almond variety valued for its rich flavour, high natural oil content and limited production compared with ordinary commercial almonds.
• Sheermal — a saffron-scented bread with Persian-Mughal culinary roots, traditionally associated with rich festive and royal-style cuisine.
• Khandvi Mille-Feuille — not simply “gram flour.” Khandvi itself requires precision to cook, spread paper-thin and roll properly; presenting it as a mille-feuille turns a Gujarati classic into fine dining without losing its identity.
• Khumb Galouti — a vegetarian interpretation of the famous galouti style, using mushrooms to create the same soft, delicate texture while keeping the menu entirely vegetarian.
• Millets — ancient Indian grains brought into a modern state-banquet setting, combining heritage with contemporary nutrition and sustainability.
• Phirni with mulberries and gold leaf — a traditional milk-and-rice dessert finished with fruit and edible gold, giving a centuries-old dish a ceremonial, luxurious presentation.
And that is what makes this menu impressive.
It moves from Gujarat to North India, the Himalayas, South India and Old Delhi; from humble grains and lentils to saffron, morels, premium almonds and gold leaf.
This was not vegetarian food chosen because something was “missing.”
It was vegetarian food chosen because Indian cuisine is rich enough to make meat completely unnecessary.
The menu is thoughtful, regional, luxurious and unmistakably Indian.
Sometimes luxury is not a steak on a plate.
Sometimes it is a wild Himalayan morel, a few strands of saffron, and centuries of culinary knowledge behind them.
#brics #india #bharat #GOI #narendramodi #vegetarian #luxurious #food #foodfascism
No words...
Nearly half of India’s milk comes from an animal with no scripture behind her, no religious groups fighting for her life, and no law standing between her and the slaughterhouse.
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In the coming months, 1,928 Endangered long-tailed #macaques due to be exported from #Indonesia; their likely fate to suffer & die in toxicity (poisoning) testing labs in USA & China. Please take urgent action for these monkeys: sign petition & send Email tinyurl.com/49tkuzrm
ALT Capture female long-tailed macaque with infant, Indonesia, 2022; Action for Primates (https://tinyurl.com/49tkuzrm)
Arpit Shah retweeted
🗣️ Interview de Maldini à CorSera: "Les personnes qui ont travaillé avec moi, mes coéquipiers, mes collègues durant mes cinq années comme dirigeant du Milan, me connaissent bien. Si un homme qui cherche à faire respecter son rôle et à défendre ses prérogatives est intransigeant, alors je suis intransigeant."
Arpit Shah retweeted
I have never seen anything like this ever before.
You hire Maldini, the biggest name in your country’s footballing history to lead a revolution.
You interfere in his FIRST decision.
He resigns in a little over 10 days after being hired.
The system is ROTTEN to the core.
Arpit Shah retweeted
L’odio verso Maldini nasce dal suo essere libero
Libero di non svendere mai la propria dignità
Libero di non piegarsi a nessuno
Libero di scegliere
Libero di decidere il proprio destino
Per chi ha fatto della sottomissione uno stile di vita, un uomo libero è un’offesa vivente
Arpit Shah retweeted
Dignità.
Carisma.
Spina dorsale.
Cose che i mezzi uomini non potranno mai capire/avere.
Paolo Cuore di Drago ❤️ – at Santa Maria Hoè, Lombardia
Arpit Shah retweeted
Chi ha etica e non si piega al potere viene giudicato inadeguato. Paolo Maldini è un personaggio disturbante proprio perché la sua integrità rifiuta ogni compromesso al ribasso. Paolo Maldini è un gigante.
Arpit Shah retweeted
Dear friends we all know this is the season when Dooars & other parts see a lot of rainfall.
Many of the roads are passing through forest only.
Remember wildlife has first right of way on such roads. Give them space and way. Drive slowly and safely.
Such is the illusory nature of existence that escaping the heavy fog is but a matter of chance. However, the first gulp of reality at the end of it is all it takes for the soul to be filled with dread and rush to its place of meaning. Chance has not involved itself here, thus far