On Oct 11, 1:33*am, "P. Rajah" > wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 7:54 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
>
> > A Bangladeshi gentleman and a staunch Muslim too, once lamented to me
> > about beef eating habits in Bangladesh. *By eating beef, we have
> > become stupid and have made many mistakes.
>
> Australians are among the biggest per capita consumers of beef. Do you
> find them to be among the most stupid people you have encountered?

Australians do not seem to have a very high opinion of their own
intelligence. They routinely refer to their political leaders as
*******s, their religious leaders as frauds, their academics as
******s, their sporting people as high medical risks, their
entertainers as depraved, their elderly as old bags, etc etc. When I
came here in 1989, feminism was really hot, and the top intellectuals
such as Ms Greer wrote that all men were rapists, having children
spoilt the fun of women, marriage was a silly and outdated concept
etc. and divorce was upped as the way of escape from the drudgery of
family life. Their greatest philosophers are those jokers who appear
on TV.

The intelligent people among them are a minority no doubt, and I am
happy to have worked among the best of them in the Telstra Research
Labs. None among them was an ardent beefeater, and the more
intelligent and conscientious ones were vegetarians or vegans.
Unfortunately, our Labs was abolished by the Liberal party, who hired
some execs from the US to do that dirty job, as they do not like tall
poppies among them - especially when they are socialistic.

If you become what you eat, then of course beefeaters should be like
cows. Don't cows have a happy life here before they are slaughtered?
Oh yes. A few days ago I was going on a road, which our visitor from
US labelled the Great Bovine Road. Entire hills had been denuded of
vegetation in the Otways for miles and miles, and replaced with green
grass, upon which cows fed. They looked happy, that way very
Australian indeed! So what is overall bad about being a cow for
slaughter, if you live well for a few months, do no work, only eat and
think and herd together - and then suffer agonies for a few days when
your time is up? Death comes to us all! How can the intelligent ever
comprehend the joys and satisfactions of the stupid? And really who
is stupid - the hardworking humans who herd and kill and eat cows, or
the cows who do nothing at all, just enjoy their brief existences? I
don't know!

One problem is, that will all the tree felling, Australia nearly
became a desert state with the 12 year drought which broke only this
year. But that is a different story. For the moment I rejoice that
the lands here will not be a Sahara, nor the wasteland that is the
Snowy Mountains (around Cooma) which was denuded of vegetation for
hundreds of kilometers, and never recovered.

> Beef consumption in Bangladesh is considerably lower than in South
> Korea, Japan and China, which no doubt accounts for the stupidity of the
> Koreans, Japanese and Chinese.

I have heard that the Koreans and Japanese eat more fish than beef, as
the latter is a luxury. I don't think Chinese eat as much beef as
Australians do, they eat pigs and ducks as Vietnamese do. In any
case, poor people everywhere cannot eat much meat, and they have to
live on grains and vegetables just as in India.

Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee