It’s generally mixed with mud for this purpose.
Johanna thinking back to all the Ayurvedic preparations she has bought at Whole Foods
Nah, it can’t be…
Is that why I always saw those old ladies putting those dung patties on the walls in India?
Behind my cousins’ house in Panipat, there is a low-lying wall, about three feet high, that stretches the entire block (with breaks for gates). Anyway whenever I go there is a little old lady painstakingly making dung patties and placing them on the wall in a fairly regular pattern. I have always wondered why!
They stick them on the walls just to dry them. When they’re dry, they stack them up and use them for fuel. The patterns are not really critical to the operation.
Oh.
slinks off
When driving from Delhi to Dehra Dun, I was intrigued by dung storage structures resembling small sheds or stupas with decorative patterns sculptured onto their exteriors. Like this
He didn’t even touch Ghee? :eek:
I vaguely remember that he considered consuming dairy products to be somehow unpleasant for the cow. He did not explain in the short bit I read whether it was painful, disrespectful, rude or morally wrong in some fashion. I long for enlightenment.
I’m going to start calling him Maurice, cause, y’know, he just won’t shut up about the pompatus of pork.
It may be because he had a lot of sympathy for the cows. In his book (cited above) Good to Eat/The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig, anthropologist Harris quotes Gandhi on the abuses the poor cows can be put through. Although they are held sacred and are revered, the cows are also milked frequently, and their calfs are sometimes killed off in a sort of not-so-benign neglect so that they won’t drink up the milk, and so the cow keeps producing.
As Harris points out, American dairy cattle are much larger and healthier, and produce prodigious amounts of milk – but they’re also extremely expensive top breed, raise, and maintain. The India cows aren’t such pampered beauties, but they are allowed to roam and browse for free, and, if they need to come in off the streets, there are apparently places for them, maintained as a religious duty. unit per unit of milk, I think he calculated that Indian cows are cheaper producers. But the relentless milking and calficide might have been a situation that Gandhi did not want to contribute to, even passively, by supporting the system.
Thank you.
Catholics eat the body and blood of Christ.