Rishi Kapoor: I Don't Eat Beef In India

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Posted: 10 years ago
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Rishi Kapoor: I Don't Eat Beef In India


Rishi Kapoor was brought back to Twitter by Abhishek Bachchan. But he never thought he's land up in a hot sticky beef-stew of a controversy so soon after his return to micro-blogging
A casual tweet From Rishi about how food should not be equated with religion in our country has created an uproar.
"I am being abused. My family is being abused. As if we are a family of cow-killing infidels. What nonsense!" Rishi bellows passionately.
To recap the events leading to the controversy, Rishi says, "I was shooting on Sunday 15 March at a 5-star hotel. We took a break for lunch in the coffee shop where for buffet lunch I suddenly see venison, kangaroo and lamb meat on offer...red meats of all kinds. I told my colleagues, This is the effect of banning beef. They start killing other animals for meat. Never in my life have I seen venison, which is deer meat"the deer was dear to Bhagwan Shri Ram, we were told-- being served in any restaurant. And kangaroo meat in India???!!!'
Rishi then tweeted his thoughts on the matter. "Abhishek recently re-introduced me to twitter. I had gotten off twitter some years ago. I said something about the beef ban and suddenly the entire nation took off on me. You can't deny the fact that animals are cut for meat. Hindu organizations that have attacked me. They want me to be vegetarian. But I am not! And that's my choice."
Rishi doesn't deny being a beef eater. "But I don't eat beef in India. I eat beef prepared from cattle bred for food. In the USA, England, Australia and New Zealand they breed cattle specially for meat. Not like us. In this country we do not breed cattle specially for meat-eating. I don't eat cow meat in India. Beef is not allowed me in my house. 90 percent of my Hindu friends eat beef or beef products. But I am not killing my gaw-maata to eat beef. Kissko samjhaooon main?"
The irate actor feels he is being targeted for no reason. "People have deliberately chosen to misconstrue my statements. Everybody is making up his own screenplay to attack me. Ab kis-kis ko main samjhaaoon? My fans are mailing me to just ignore the attack, as it is normal practice to slam celebrities on Twitter."
But Rishi feels persecuted. "What wrong did I say? People have simply chosen to twist my words. They are abusing me and my family. If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don't agree with? Is that our culture? If by banning beef the restaurants are going to find alternative meat then what is the point? What about fish farming that occupies so much of our work force close to the sea? Should we stop eating fish as well? I repeat, I don't eat beef in India. We don't breed cattle meat here. We revere the cow, and there was a scientific for that reverence. Cows give us milk, curd, ploughed our land...L ikewise pig meat is avoided in some areas as it is unhygenic."
He feels the choice of being a vegetarian or otherwise is entirely personal. "Please do not equate food with religion. I believe it's not my khaana but my karma that makes me a good human being. All these rules of living are man-made. I respect these religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu. We get Ganpati in our home yesterday. We celebrate Holi and Diwali. Nonetheless, I have every right to have my opinion. Don't try to shout me down just because you have another point of view."
Rishi says his voice won't silenced. "I am not advocating beef eating. But I am advocating a freedom to have an opinion and a voice."
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Between Rishi Kapoor and Bombay in the title, Bombay Velvet is probably getting banned in Mumbai
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He is a welcome addition on social media. Carry on Rishiji!
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Rishiji time for you to be a Rishi and take sanyas or maun vrat...
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Thanks for this upkar. Gov should award this bull a bhins ratana.
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Dunno why i felt i was reading a Rakhi Sawant's IV😆
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Decent rant, to be fair 😆

I'm imagining him being like 😲😲😲 as he read kangaroo meat on the menu
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Posted: 10 years ago
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this guy is hilarious and finds his son boring...father and son are very different. one of the 1st actors he followed in twitter was Ranveer singh 😆
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Posted: 10 years ago
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He is the cow.The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, and because he is female, he gives milks. He is same like God , sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement.



What can it do? Various ghee,butter, cream, curd,why and the condensed milk and so forth. And he is also useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species, and also his gober is much useful to farmers, plants and trees and is used to make flat cakes, in hand and drying sun.



Cow is the only animal that extricates after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in hte meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child.This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapond to be parralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forewards. He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it.



The palms of his feet are soft onto the touch.So the grasses head is not crushed.At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts. His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow...



Send this to your english teacher and within 7 days ...



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Posted: 10 years ago
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Originally posted by: hasini009


He is the cow.The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, and because he is female, he gives milks. He is same like God , sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement.



What can it do? Various ghee,butter, cream, curd,why and the condensed milk and so forth. And he is also useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species, and also his gober is much useful to farmers, plants and trees and is used to make flat cakes, in hand and drying sun.



Cow is the only animal that extricates after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in hte meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child.This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapond to be parralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forewards. He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it.



The palms of his feet are soft onto the touch.So the grasses head is not crushed.At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts. His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow...



Send this to your english teacher and within 7 days ...



... She is surely gonna committ SUICIDE

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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