A perfect demonstration of GIGO!! I’ll defend anyone’s right to be a vegan, but IMHO that's a political not nutritional choice, therefore validating it with data is pointless.
Cf., —Emily Eakin (17 Aug 2002) "Holy Cow a Myth? An Indian Finds The Kick Is Real," is.gd/qD3pug
''Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary Traditions,'' is a dry work of historiography buttressed by a 24-page bibliography and hundreds of footnotes citing ancient Sanskrit texts. It's the sort of book, in other words, that typically is read by a handful of specialists and winds up forgotten on a library shelf.
But when its author, Dwijendra Narayan Jha, a historian at the University of Delhi, tried to publish the book in India a year ago, he unleashed a furor of a kind not seen there since 1989, when the release of ''Satanic Verses,'' Salman Rushdie's novel satirizing Islam, provoked rioting and earned him a fatwa from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. [...]
After months of legal wrangling, Mr. Jha's lawyers succeeded in having the ban lifted this spring. And now his book has been published in Britain and the United States by Verso, with a new preface and a more provocative title: ''The Myth of the Holy Cow.''
But though copies have been shipped to India, few bookstores there are likely to stock it.
His offense? To say what scholars have long known to be true: early Hindus ate beef.
Well, not only political. People like the diet (it is generally low calorie). And some people have a sincere objection to killing animals. The data are whether they thrive. Other data, are as you say, pointless.
A perfect demonstration of GIGO!! I’ll defend anyone’s right to be a vegan, but IMHO that's a political not nutritional choice, therefore validating it with data is pointless.
Cf., —Emily Eakin (17 Aug 2002) "Holy Cow a Myth? An Indian Finds The Kick Is Real," is.gd/qD3pug
''Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary Traditions,'' is a dry work of historiography buttressed by a 24-page bibliography and hundreds of footnotes citing ancient Sanskrit texts. It's the sort of book, in other words, that typically is read by a handful of specialists and winds up forgotten on a library shelf.
But when its author, Dwijendra Narayan Jha, a historian at the University of Delhi, tried to publish the book in India a year ago, he unleashed a furor of a kind not seen there since 1989, when the release of ''Satanic Verses,'' Salman Rushdie's novel satirizing Islam, provoked rioting and earned him a fatwa from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. [...]
After months of legal wrangling, Mr. Jha's lawyers succeeded in having the ban lifted this spring. And now his book has been published in Britain and the United States by Verso, with a new preface and a more provocative title: ''The Myth of the Holy Cow.''
But though copies have been shipped to India, few bookstores there are likely to stock it.
His offense? To say what scholars have long known to be true: early Hindus ate beef.
𝙸𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚒 𝚗𝚘𝚗 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚞𝚖
Well, not only political. People like the diet (it is generally low calorie). And some people have a sincere objection to killing animals. The data are whether they thrive. Other data, are as you say, pointless.