'To each his own,' they say. 'Respect everyone's choices' they say, but that's not what often get to see. We've only seen people being cornered online?for eating what they like.
And it takes the smallest things to spark a fight in this context.?More recently, Kerala Tourism official Twitter handle tweeted about?a beef recipe named?Ularthiyathu?which it described as ¡°the stuff of legends from the land of spices¡±.?
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On Wednesday, @KeralaTourism posted a photo of popular local delicacy ¡®Beef Ularthiyathu (beef fry)¡¯, with a link to the recipe on their website. However, many people claimed the tweet ¡®hurt their religious sentiments¡¯ since it contained a photo of beef.??
For those unaware, beef?became a popular dish 1,000 years ago and people have been enjoying the dish packed with the chillies, cardamom, black pepper, and cinnamon for years. But for many Indians, eating beef is a huge taboo.
The Kerala tourism beef recipe tweet was slammed by the some who somehow connected the timing of the tweet with Makar Sankranti and Mattu Pongal, a festival in which people worship cows.
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While some claimed 'beef not to be Kerala's culture and that it was the 'devil who introduced it to God's own country,' others termed the recipe 'heavenly.'?
Dr Vireandta Jilowa wrote, 'Surprised to see it, that beef is being consumed despite BJP government in the Centre.'
'We are not slaves of BJP at the Centre¡.people eat whatever they like in this state, including beef, pork, mutton and fish,' another user Tatheesh Vijayakumar wrote.?
Mattu Pongal or the cattle festival is the third day of the Pongal festival which is celebrated in Tamil Nadu and some parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.?
The Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Harsh Vardhan had ordered that the ministry has notified the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017 to ensure that the sale of cattle is not meant for slaughter purposes.