Why do certain Indian people that dont eat BEEF for religious reasons still wear Leather eg shoes,jackets etc?
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cow was revered because cow was the most usefull animal; in ancient india and related with village economy. cow's milk was supposed to be most healthy. its dounge was used as fuel. its calfs became bull and were used top plough fields.\npeople drink its milk. and called it mother because of that.\n\nit was an indian way to say thanx. it was not thought a good thing to kill it for food. it was taken as immoral to drink its milk and then kill it for food.\n\nhinduism revers nature. there are many trees which have religiousd importance too. hinduism is agaist cutting of green tree. according to hinduism trees have souls and cutting it is a murder.\n\nwhen a tree is dried of it is OK to make furniture. a creacher is dead its skin can be used. that is called being practical. it is against religious practice to kill an animal for such uses.  but when animals die naturally it is OK.\n\nthe fact is in ancient india beef was eaten. then as concept of vegetarianism came meat eating all together reduced. it was not just cow. but as it was already reverd as very usefull animal it got more respect .
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To say that God didnt allow people to eat these things anciently because of no refridgeration or anything like that is absurd.  If you believe that then you would have to agree that God is not all knowing.  He must not have realized that one day in the future someone would invent a box to keep ice and meat in because if He did realize it then He surely He would have said "when the ice box in developed you may eat of these unclean animals".  \n\nThe problem here is translation the words "tahor" and "tamei" in hebrew do not translate well in to english so they chose the words "clean" and "unclean".  It is a spiritual teaching using physical things like a pig for instance.  But like any other commandment, if you strip the physical part of actually doing the commandment away, and only focus on the spiritual it will eventually loose its meaning thats why the physical is so important.  This would take me a while to explain but essentially the animals we are not to eat are scavengers, they devour other animals.  The animals that are edible chew cud.  Man was originally made to be vegetarian but when God allowed meat during the time of Noah, He chose animals that chewed cud.  If we were not going to be vegetarians then at least we would only eat animals that chewed cud so we were only one step away in the chain so to speak.  \n\nI dont want to ramble but this is a huge subject that needs to be taught.  There are so many other areas to cover like divided hooves and chewing cud being linked with rightly dividing the word and chewing on it until it becomes milk to feed "baby" believers in Yhwh.  There is really a lot there if you study it out.
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Some Indians drink cow's urine. It's some religious practice they have and it's very sacred!
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This is the right category to ask seeing as there are certain dietary restrictions that both Jews and Muslims MUST adhere to.  Anything from a pig is forbidden including anything made from pig leather.  They can't even keep one of those little Vietnamese Pot Bellied pigs as a pet.
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Only when the body of the deceased is covered with a sheet, way up to the chin, then that deceased person won't wear shoes.\n\nOn the other hand, yes.
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I read one reason is so their pants don't touch the floor which is considered unholy.  Another reason being that they just haven't changed their style all that much in the past few hundred years.  It's not just the Ger, the Bobovers do it too and probably some others.
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in practice, it depends on your caste and on your area of India. usually, Brahmans from states such as UP or Bihar are pure veg, while bengali brahmans do eat fish. it varies on your region. ideally, however, hindus should not eat meat at all. most ppl think its acceptable for certain castes to eat certain meats, but your supposed to strive for the no-meat deal.......
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Of course.  There is a large Christian population that is not subject to the Jewish or Muslim dietary laws.  In addition, there are now many immigrants from Russia and the former communist sattelite countries that grew up without kosher foods and learned to eat non-kosher meat.
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What you smell of depends on your diet.  Obviously you have been exposed to white men who eat a lot of beef in their diets.  Not everybody eats a lot of beef.  For instance, I'm white and I almost never eat beef.  I prefer vegetables or chicken or fish.  So I'm guessing I don't smell like beef.  Just like you're Indian but you don't smell like curry.
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Muslims don't eat pork because it is haraam, unclean and forbidden.\n\nMany Hindus [though definitely not all] are vegetarian- they don't eat pork and beef in addition to chicken, turkey, fish, mutton, and any other kind of meat- because they believe in the sacredness of all life and ahimsa [nonviolence]. They see killing an animal as an act of violence. Also, an animal, being equal with humans in that its life is also valued and sacred, has as much right to live, in their belief, as a human. Almost all Hindus stay away from beef, even if they eat other kinds of meat, because in our belief the cow is life-giving and particularly worthy of respect. We believe that it is wrong to kill a cow because cows provide milk, manure which acts like fertilizer for the soil [many Hindus lived off agriculture in the past] and many other essentials. Lord Krishna, a Hindu God who was an avatar of Vishnu, was a cowherd and loved cows dearly.
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With cow dung!All of the cow body is pure...\nThat's why this animal is considered sacred...it's also called Ma-mother- in India...so plse,don't eat your mother!
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because they dont like how animals that are going to be killed are kept, there are disease's in meat and you just dont like meat, the only meat i like is roast beef and i rarely ever have it
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We wouldn't eat meat if we weren't meateaters. Vegetarians are following a fad, not their instincts. \nWhat is the Indian word for bad hunter? Vegetarian!
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it is a normal life like any other person. the main difference in daily life is that they are vegetarian and they do not use even garlic and onion in their food. \n\nusually traditionally they ate their dinner early and did not eat after sun set. the logic is that of nonviolence. they do not kill even worms and insects because they are created by god. so it is another life and killing them is equivalent to killing another human. and after sun set in india many night insects come out and they could have accidentlly killed them. but many do not follow these rules that strictlly now.\n\nthey are also not supposed to accumulate wealth . they are not supposed to have more money than needed. but who will decide what is more than needed? they are nice people but many of them rich buissnessmen. i found it funny. but they are among most tolerant relegions. most of them call themselves hindu and jainism as a hindu sect. in fact idea of buddhiasm, jainism and sikkhism as a separate relegion came with britishers. all of them were called hindu in india before that. just different sects or branches of the same tree. i do not think them different than hindu and most jains will also feel offeded if as a hindu i will call them a nonhindu.
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Leather is probably healthier for you.  Synthetic shoes are sold because they're healthier on the wallet and, for vegetarians, on the animal kingdom.\n\nBut in terms of foot health, leather has it all over synthetics.  (With, perhaps, the exception of winter/rain boots, where plastics may be better able to keep water/wetness/snow away from the feet.)
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The head covering is more than a tradition to many of the Muslim women - it is a matter of obeying the laws of their faith, and the basis of that is just being modest.  Smoking or blue jeans may not be "traditional" but that doesn't matter, because for those women, "Tradition" is not the point.  They are hanging on to laws of faith and modesty, which in many cultures, go beyond societal "tradition".  (Many conservative - that is, not necessarily traditional, but sticking close to the rules - Jews and Christians also wear head coverings of some sort for similar reasons.  There are more Muslim women in their conservative category though, so you don't see the others as much.  Do a search on "head covering" or "hair covering" to see what I mean.)\n\nHope this helps you understand to some extent.\n\n--- PS - I agree with you that they are inconsistent in their upholding of moral standards, just pointing out that it doesn't necessarily have to do with their upholding a traditional dress.
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it is a foolish comparison. iam an indian and proud of my heritage and uniqueness. but not all of that  heritage are so praisworthy. same goes for western culture. \n\ni dislike that western culture in the name of relegion had spread so much violence. burn those on stakes .we are proud that we are most tolerant people on earth\n but what about sati system. funny thing is that it got social sanction even when no relegious base . just because many wanted to show off that their daughter or D-in-law was soooooo faithfull or in some cases so that they would not have to give her, her property as inherited from her husband.\n\nit will be as foolish as to compre apple and orange.