Recently the Hyderabad based Muslim seminary Jamia Nizamia, started in 1876, issued a ban on Muslims eating prawn, shrimp, and crabs, calling them Makruh Tahrim (abominable). According to Islam, there are three categories of food : Halal (allowed), Haram (prohibited), Makruh (strictly to be&nbs...
A hundred years from now, if scientists have their way, many humans will be partly pig and baboon. I mean really, not metaphorically.Scientists are working on transplanting entire hearts, liver, kidneys, pancreas and lungs from animals to humans. The increasing demand for organs, tissues, and cells,...
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Minister, Women & Child Welfare, GoIThe first known xenotransplantation was done by the god Shiva. Daksha, the father in law of Shiva, organized a yagna. He insulted Shiva and his daughter. Sati, Shiva’s wife, immolated herself in protest. Daksha’s head was cut of...
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Minister, Women & Child Welfare, GoIIn a country like India, it is odd that we should have so many couples going to doctors complaining about their inability to have children. A number of men, predictably, put the blame on their wives. But when family pressure forces them to...
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Minister, Women & Child Welfare, GoII am in Argentina for a few days to attend a Child Labour Conference. Buenos Aires has wide roads, green trees which are almost the same as what we have in India. It is Jacaranda season and purple blossoms cover the pavements.&...
Is the chicken you get in commercial large scale food vendors, in products like sandwiches, chicken? Perhaps not.Subway is a group that targets health conscious folk, who avoid other fast food. Is it healthy? A recent inves-tigation by CBC Marketplace shows that the chicken used in Subway chicken sa...
A few months ago, a friend of mine said that his son wanted to do hotel management but he was not going to allow him since he didn’t want his son working with meat and eggs in any form. It was then that I remembered Mr. Luniya and his crusade.It just takes the determination of one person to change...
Maneka Sanjay GandhiMinister, Women & Child Welfare, GoI Life is so complex. We think of all beings as animals or plants and this means a lot when you are vegetarian and determined not to hurt. What characterises a being as one or another. An animal must feed on other living...
I feel sorry for the magnificent animal that is the bull. I was at a banking mela organised by the local administration in Alwar. A bull wandered in and walked about harmlessly. Almost every stall keeper hit him. Bystanders hit him. Security guards attacked him. His only reaction was to try and dodg...
In the last two weeks, my team at People for Animals has been examining all the religious sites on the Net to see what kind of nonsense is being put on in the name of Hinduism. Ever since I learnt about the Hathajodi “magic Talisman”, which is just the penis of the giant monitor lizard, being so...
