I don’t see any hypocrisy in there. Only an aim to not obtain food by cruel means or from animals that have led a tortured life in captivity. All animals are going to die one day, so if they are killed during hunting or at a certain age after roaming freely in a large farm, it is equivalent to a predator hunting them down. Which happens quite commonly in the jungle in nature. Factory farms are wayy different.

Goodness she married a Muslim…I don’t think she’s very orthodox in her brahminness or Hinduness, which makes it more ridiculous if she goes on about her Tam Brahminess — but have no idea if she’s in anyway like that; I was just saying it if she is and she married a Muslim, eats beef, it just seems silly.

Yeah but Tam Brahms are really into being, well, Tam Brahms. But traditionally she would lose her brahmin status by eating cow flesh. Does it still work that way?

If so, then technically she is only Tam now, not Brahm.

I don’t know about her caste conscious mind that some of you have brought up. If she really refers to herself when asked her ethnicity and says she’s Tamil Brahmin, I kindof find that weird. I don’t know any Mallus who are brahmin that would say something like that or for that matter Gujaratis, Bengalis, etc… but that’s just my experience.

Every meat-eater (including I) is a hypocrite in one way or the other. Every time we choose to eat chicken meat and not dog meat, T-Bone steak and not tripe, we are shrouding ourselves in hypocrisy. Sometimes its value-based (no to veal but yes to 4-year old cows retired from not churning out high quantities of milk, yogurt, paneer and bloodless, divine and “pure” ghee for vegetarians) and sometimes it is habit-based (no to hunted meat such as venison and rabbit and yes to organically-raised Angus). Sometimes it is even based on Gwyneth Paltrow’s logic (no to meat raised in captivity or confinement and yes to meat from the free-roaming or free-flying wild).

*Is this something that happens as you get older? As a Gen X teen, I listened to Prince and everything. I call this reaction the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) reaction. Where you get sick of the current popular culture and look back at a time that was more innocent, and thus, spend a lot of time watching movies on TCM or AMC (American Movie Classics). Of course, people back in the Golden Era of Hollywood thought they were too risque, too.

**I kind of understand the people who retreat from popular culture. I have little interest in it.

***With the exception of the TBS show My Boys, which I adore. New episodes on Tuesday! And, no, I am not a spam-bot for TCM, AMC, or TBS.