PETA - Do you know Indian Culture?

Tamilians of South India Hats off to you.

You understood very early that objective of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) was not protecting animals, but killing Tamil culture (Jallikattu).

PETA attacked Indian culture this time by suggesting Amul (largest dairy in India ) to switch to Vegan Milk.

What was the basis of suggestion?

PETA in its letter to Sodhi cited a 2018 report by global food corporation Cargill which claims that demand for dairy products around the world is on the decline as dairy is no longer considered an essential part of a diet.

Questions to PETA?

• Is Cargill, Nestle and other food giants one of key donors to PETA? If Yes, please state the figures.
• As Mr. Sodhi of Amul India stated “Will they give livelihood to 100 million dairy farmers (70% landless)? Who will pay for their children's school fees? How many can afford expensive lab manufactured factory food made out of chemicals and synthetic vitamins?”
• PETA India Head, you did some thinking / research on Indian culture / employment/ economy or just forwarded the suggestion came from PETA USA without thinking?
• Why now PETA suggested this idea of vegan milk during a period when Indians are fighting COVID battle? Is this a conspiracy by the PETA USA?
• During the COVID attack who would have benefitted more from VEGAN Milk? I will list it:
• The so-called VEGAN promoting global food giants like Cargill and others?
• Shareholders of the global food giants?
• Stakeholders of the global food giants like Soya, Almond, Nuts producers?
• Will PETA tell which is the most common product used for VEGAN milk? Answer: Soya, Almond, Cashew, Oat (top 4).
• Who are the major producers of Soya, Almond, Cashew, Oat?
• Soya – USA , Brazil, Argentina
• Almond -USA, Spain, IRAN
• Cashew – Vietnam, India, Côte d'Ivoire
• Oat – Russia Federation, Canada and Poland
• Most important question : are you promoting USA and want to benefit few large corporations by starving millions of Indians?
• It appears PETA cares more about Animals, select countries and their giant food corporations than an ordinary Indian who survives with bare minimum needs?

On Top dairy free milk brands:

Here are the world’s top dairy-free milk brands.

USA/Canada

Blue Diamond Almond Breeze

Edensoy

Oatly (Oat drink, chai, latte, and Barista Edition)

Pacific Non Dairy Beverages (Soy, Almond, and Coconut Varieties)

Ripple Dairy-Free (Pea-Based)

Silk (Soy, Nut, Almond, Oat “Oat Yeah”, and Coconut Varieties)

So Delicious Dairy-Free (Almond, Cashew, and Coconut Varieties)

Trader Joe’s (Soy, Almond, and Coconut Varieties)

WestSoy

Zen Soy

Whole Foods Market 365 Everyday Value (Soy and Almond Varieties)

Australia/New Zealand

Nutty Bruce

Japan

Here’s a terrific page listing all major brands of soy milk sold in Japan, including package photos for each. And here are four top brands that you can find in nearly every grocery:

Sujahta

Fukuren

Midori

Kikkoman

I support Tamilians of South India for being proactive and suggesting ban over PETA.

What Tamilians of South India understood in 2017, North-East-West of Indians are yet to understand i.e. PETA wants to destroy Indian culture.

Aditi Mutatkar - Wonderful Interview

Interview of Aditi Mutatkar in Indian Express (former Number 1 Indian badminton player) threw out many statements which a honest sports person undergoes and feels.

Some statements are reflections which come out after you have left the sport and start reconciling with life. Thanks to Aditi for sharing her part of story which was a very inspiring one.

Enjoyed reading thoughtful statements from Aditi.

Every sports person should read this interview and learn from the journey.

Key statements which is worth sharing is listed below:

Memories of a sportsman

“Look, me and Saina will always be a painful memory for me. She was extra-ordinary. I wasn’t extra-ordinary. It is not easy to accept that someone is so good that you don’t have a chance at all. I could never break through that aura of Saina,” 

Mistakes ignorantly committed have important learning

On her return from Europe, a writer from Bangalore would urge Aditi to scribble about her fruitful European sojourn. “I actually wrote a nice piece titled ‘Thank you, Saina!’ It was written in the spirit of ‘You raised the bar, so we could follow.’ Day after, Tom sir (coach Tom John) was looking at me funny and asked me in his typical way: “Are you an idiot? What have you written? Don’t treat her like a god.'”

Very important message

Aditi jokes she can serve as a giant WARNING sign to the next generation, now chasing PV Sindhu, an even bigger figure. “Never put them on a pedestal if you have to play them! Have respect for them, but don’t be satisfied with just nicking a few points off them. On the court, you have to start as equal. They shouldn’t be beating you in the head even before the game has begun.”

Feelings on what was missing in coaching and attitude 

Badminton’s famous clash of cultures between Bangalore and Hyderabad, didn’t help matters. “Prakash sir and Vimal sir had a very democratic setup. Noone received special attention, and it was like sabko saath leke chalo. (Take everyone along). I had my Pune middle class attitude which could only take me to a certain level. At the top level, you need to be extremely selfish, doesn’t matter who falls by the wayside,” she explains.

Difficulty to reconcile and then to settle down

“I was competitive. But how do I accept that she’s 10 times better than me. Not knowing how to deal with it even when I played against her, ate me up,” she recalls of a torrid time.

At 15, Aditi had looked at her achievements the way other people saw them: casually tossing them aside compared to Saina’s. “I saw myself the way Saina saw me. But I should’ve enjoyed the journey more, rather than being caught up in this,” she says.

Dawn of wisdom

“I learnt that we should enjoy what we’re doing and not let another athlete bog you down. Sport is cruel, there’s no place to hide. But you can’t say, what’s the big deal in No. 2. Atleast you are No 2! When I won titles it was always back of my mind that she’s not there. But there were other challengers. And I beat them all. It really wasn’t as bad as I thought.”

We lionise winners, but there’s no space for ordinary champions or runners-up. In my life, every opponent gave me something to learn from, and were important in my journey,” 

Interview Link :(Indian Express) Aditi Mutatkar

Reflections of a self

In the below photo (from the Indian Express article) anyone from the four would have been a world champion with only change in name and face. We have to accept we know nothing about future and how life progresses.

We may never know who the other two in the photos are, may be they have some stories to share about their journey too.