"They easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes."
Who? Meat-eaters, that's who. From a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, printed by one of India's leading publishers:
"The strongest argument that meat is not essential food is the fact that the Creator of this Universe did not include meat in the original diet for Adam and Eve. He gave them fruits, nuts and vegetables," reads a chapter entitled Do We Need Flesh Food?...
The chapter, full of factual inaccuracies, refers to Eskimos (Inuit) as "lazy, sluggish and short-lived", because they live on "a diet largely of meat".
It adds: "The Arabs who helped in constructing the Suez Canal lived on wheat and dates and were superior to the beef-fed Englishmen engaged in the same work."
It may not be that funny. In the recent case of the gang-rape of a 16-year-old Indian girl, one response, along with the helpful suggestion that the age of marriage should be lowered to reduce such crimes in future, was that such attacks were triggered by eating ‘Western’ fast-food.
Although It explains why Cannibals are so nasty.
Posted by: Dom | November 17, 2012 at 03:11 PM
In the immortal words of Gen. McAuliffe, "Nuts!"
Although, at the time, I'm pretty sure he'd have been happy to have been elsewhere having steak.
Posted by: DaninVan | November 17, 2012 at 06:09 PM
Diederik Stapel anyone?
Posted by: Will | November 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM
I had to look him up, but yes, I remember him now. A psychology professor with a penchant for making up the data to fit his theories. From Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederik_Stapel
"The research result, obtained by Stapel and co-workers Roos Vonk (Radboud University) and Marcel Zeelenberg (Tilburg University), that meat eaters are more selfish than vegetarians, which was widely published in Dutch media, is suspected to be based on faked data."
Posted by: Mick H | November 19, 2012 at 01:57 PM