Daily News Online
  Ad Space Available Here  

Thursday, 6 September 2012

Home

 | SHARE MARKET  | EXCHANGE RATE  | TRADING  | OTHER PUBLICATIONS   | ARCHIVES | 

dailynews
 ONLINE


OTHER PUBLICATIONS


OTHER LINKS

Marriage Proposals
Classified
Government Gazette

Meat-eating issues

At present there is a massive campaign against cow slaughter. People are demanding closure of meat stalls (including mutton, pork, beef and chicken) and requesting Urban and Rural Councils not to renew licences to operate meat stalls. This proposal is appreciated. However some questions need to be answered.

a) What is the position pertaining to sea food (fish, prawns, crabs etc)? Even the fish suffocate and die when kept out of water.

Fish undergo terrible agony when caught by fish hook. There are instances where fish sellers clean the fish with a knife and cut them while they are still alive.

Crabs are immersed in boiling water alive before cooking.

b) If one feels sorry for the aquatic species, our valuable sea resources which create employment and income to millions of people will be wasted.

c) If one is against meat consumption, even the use of leather products should be avoided. It becomes necessary to find a substitute. Plastic is condemned by health authorities and its usage should not be encouraged.

If all Sri Lankans eat vegetables only, vegetable production cannot be matched with the demand. Factually more than 90 percent of this country's population are non-vegetarians, consuming fish, meat or both.

Country cannot plan its economy based on religious and sentimental issues. At least the animals like lions, tigers etc in the Dehiwala Zoo should be fed with meat. I hope the public at large agrees on this issue.

- S R Balachandran

 

EMAIL |   PRINTABLE VIEW | FEEDBACK

TENDER NOTICE - WEB OFFSET NEWSPRINT - ANCL
ANCL TENDER NOTICE - COUNTER STACKER
Millennium City
www.news.lk
www.defence.lk
Donate Now | defence.lk
www.apiwenuwenapi.co.uk
LANKAPUVATH - National News Agency of Sri Lanka
www.army.lk
Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL)

| News | Editorial | Business | Features | Political | Security | Sport | World | Letters | Obituaries |

Produced by Lake House Copyright © 2012 The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.

Comments and suggestions to : Web Editor