Veg vs Non-veg.

What one wears and eats are dependent upon his ancestry and his bringing up. It depends quite a lot on the geography of the place where his ancestors stayed. These habits are then modified by his education and his present surrounding and friends circle.
Bengalis residing in Bengal ,where there are perpetual rivers and streams, find abundant supply of fish in the rivers and sea coast and so have become fish eaters. India has a long sea coast and so the people living on these coasts are mainly sea fish eaters.
Rajasthan and Gujarat are two states where water is or was scarce for people to live in and so quite a few moved to far of places like Bengal initially and later to the south. Since there was not much water, they could not keep animals except for camels which were used to transportation. Hence circumstances have made them vegetarians.
The medical profession tells us that vegetarian food is better than non-veg food and so the western people are gradually shifting their eating habits towards veggies. On the other hand, modern Marwaris and Gujjus have started thinking that eggs and meat are the “in” thing and are moving in hordes towards non-veg diet.
I won’t go so far and say that the non-veggies are committing a sin by killing and eating animals. I suppose they are doing the veggies a favour by bringing about a balance in the population of Mother earth as otherwise these animals would eat up all the veg food and leave nothing for the veggies. After all I don’t suppose more than 10 % of the population of the world are veggies so if the other 90 % people too started taking veg food, it would denude the earth. I can only thank the non-veggies for killing and eating these wretched animals.
Having said that, I have a grievance.
In school, if you remember right, there were two refectories, English and Indian.
In the English one they used to serve pork and beef and in the Indian one, they used to serve Chicken and mutton. Of course eggs were served in both.
We veggies had one table where sixteen of us could sit. So on an average among 300 boarders there were just about 16 veggies.
The boys of both refectories, except us, got eggs and some meat on daily basis. We veggies were treated with four pieces of sweets, twice a week. That was the only specials we got.
However look at the charges.
When I joined in 1955, we were charged Rs 100.00 per month and the non-veggies were charged Rs 80/- per month. Later on, our charges were increased to Rs 140/- per month while their charges were increased to Rs 120/-. These were the charges we paid until the time I passed out in 1965.
Unimaginable!