So ashwin starting showing some inclination of understanding what it means to eat non veg yesterday.
I was quite troubled at the way he ... seemingly callously... sees a chicken and announces chicken curry!
Or sees rows of fish at the market without exclaiming or being squeamish.
But yesterday he helped marinate a fish and noticed it was silver and asked where it's tail was.
When I explained the tail had been cut off a few minutes later he told aye nan "poor fish aunty it's tail got cut off"
Still later while eating ... next time let's not eat fish aatha. Poor fish. Let's have chicken! "
I asked... " how bout the chicken? Not poor chicken? " he replied not the farm chicken aatha. The other chickens!
Not bad. At least some sense of feeling for the creatures we eat. A sense of differentiating between the animals we know of and see vs the nameless ones.
He loves fish and chicken by the way.
Interesting.
If we make clear the connection that what we eat used to live I think more would be vegetarian.
We just conveniently blind ourselves and go for the taste. Hmm
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