Rantings to stop eating Free Range eggs~ please respond !

[mom'sfolly]

I'd love to see where that information comes from...or are you just yanking chains.

 

[thaiturkey]

The Bishnoi are strict vegetarians, it is the Brok-pa who are said to be vegan.

Sorry, misread you.

According to this, the Brokpa aren't neither vegetarian nor vegan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokpa_(Ladakh)

Veganism is a code for people who are not only over picky about what they eat but have the time and resources on their hands fanatically to adopt impractical, nitpicking rules that can apply only to a small groups that have the comforts around them provided by people with more usual beliefs. Vegetarianism is fine for those who want it but veganism is an invented fad that isn't even based on some primitive way of life.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

My guess...yanking chains. Has nothing to do with this topic, but reads as carry over from the other thread.

 

[chickened]

http://www.womendeliver.org/updates...s-improving-contraceptive-use-in-timor-leste/http://www.healthallianceinternational.org/media/files/Timorchildspacing_casestudy.pdf

They now are calling it "child spacing" before it was a little less discrete. There are other links if you want me to post them

 

[punk-a-doodle]

No problem Thai. My understanding though (and his may very well be incorrect...the history is muddled with culture clashes including Nazi interests, and there just isn't much on them period), is that there are either varying groups or divides, with mutton faring folks having been influenced by Muslim culture, or convers of Islam. Buddhism seems to be on the other side of he divide, and that is where the vegan diet seems to exist. http://www.tips4ceos.com/leh/aryan2.htm
I am not clear how Bon (predates Buddhism) fits into their beliefs, just that it is mentioned in relation to the Brok-pa.

Edit...aaand then others say that poultry and cattle dairy products are taboo, but goat products are fine, and that there is only one solid culture. x). So, no real idea on them!

 

[mom'sfolly]

The Bishnoi live in northwestern India...Rajasthan to be precise. East Timor is in Indonesia, several thousand miles away. Not the same country, not the same people. Chain jerking at it's best.

One of my best friends in from Rajasthan. I think she would be very surprised to learn that she is really Indonesian. New York and Spain are closer than these two areas.

 

[chickened]

The Bishnoi live in northwestern India...Rajasthan to be precise. East Timor is in Indonesia, several thousand miles away. Not the same country, not the same people. Chain jerking at it's best.

One of my best friends in from Rajasthan. I think she would be very surprised to learn that she is really Indonesian. New York and Spain are closer than these two areas.

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx...forthcoming=1&title_id=10065&edition_id=13134

Sorry wrong link.http://www.country-studies.com/india/population-and-family-planning-policy.html
This one is better and the village of Bishnoi is in India and is experiencing the same problems. Hello?

 

[thaiturkey]

No problem Thai. My understanding though (and his may very well be incorrect...the history is muddled with culture clashes including Nazi interests, and there just isn't much on them period), is that there are either varying groups or divides, with mutton faring folks having been influenced by Muslim culture, or convers of Islam. Buddhism seems to be on the other side of he divide, and that is where the vegan diet seems to exist. http://www.tips4ceos.com/leh/aryan2.htm
I am not clear how Bon (predates Buddhism) fits into their beliefs, just that it is mentioned in relation to the Brok-pa.
Edit...aaand then other's say that poultry and cattle dairy products are taboo, but goat products are fine, and that her is only one solid culture. x). So, no real idea on them!

It looks like a mixed bag of philosophies in a region where there are several separate tribes.

Buddhism must have spread into the region quite some time ago. Lord Buddha was a nobleman and Hindu, born apparently in Nepal. He spent 49 days sitting under a tree and emerged with his philosophy of life. That story was adopted and adapted by later leaders elsewhere for their own purposes. True Buddhism has no deity and so is not a religion, even though some groups seeking power have corrupted Buddhism by claiming that it is. It is a way of life that doesn't conflict with any religious creed, with the possible exception of Satanism. Where I live, Buddhism is intertwined with the remnants of Hinduism and Animism in the sense that Hindu idols crop up in some homes and businesses and many people are very superstitious. Some locals and all monks are vegetarian but others don't have the luxury of choice, even if they wanted it.

 

[chickened]

My guess...yanking chains. Has nothing to do with this topic, but reads as carry over from the other thread.

Isn't it obvious? it is a conspiracy of white middle-aged males to control women.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Punk tends to give some branches of Buddhism some mad props. I think the neatest mash-up I've witnessed though was a self described Baptist-Buddhist...really chill guy.

Now I really want to find out more about the Brok-pa to see what is truth and what is Western projection. TT...want to take a trip? xD