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Vol XXXVI No 1 Spring 2013 Journal of Beauty Without Cruelty - India An International Educational Charitable Trust for Animal Rights Inside: Shells Bones Masculinity Veggie pride Food marking Bully Kutta Dog fights in Punjab Beauty Without Cruelty - India 4 Prince of Wales Drive, Wanowrie, Pune 411 040 Editorial Tel: +91 20 2686 1166 Fax: +91 20 2686 1420 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bwcindia.org What a piece of work is man! In this Issue his issue features items about cock- Editorial …………………………………………………This page fighting, dog-fighting Shell-shock ……………………………………………………… 2 T and dog-racing, though Bully Kutta ……………………………………………………… 5 there are numerous other Fact, not fancy ………………………………………………… 6 “sports” which involve Around the world ……………………………………………… 8 animals around this world. FYI …………………………………………………………………… 9 These include camel- BWC news and views ……………………………………… 10 wrestling and bullfighting. A compassionate world …………………………………… 12 It may be important to note Vegan recipe …………………………… Inside back cover that such activities are connected to masculinity R.I.P. Mr. Noshir N. Bhesania concepts. who managed the Shooting birds with air- Beauty Without Cruelty guns may be a rite of accounts for 12 years, passed away suddenly on passage for 10-year-olds. 22 January 2013. Ten-year-old boys, that He was not only dedicated is. The novel, “To Kill a to his work but also to Mockingbird,” was set in the our cause, influencing his mid-1930s, in the fictitious daughter Anahita to become a vegetarian like him. small town of Maycomb, Anahita is a BWC member Alabama, during the and staunch supporter. Depression years of laws ensuring racial segregation and discrimination against Publisher Diana Ratnagar, Beauty Without Cruelty Chairperson, BWC - India African-Americans. Its title is a way of life which causes Editor Ashoke Dasgupta relates to the instruction no creature of land, sea or air Design Dinesh Dabholkar given by attorney Atticus terror, torture or death Printing at Mudra, Finch that, while his 383 Narayan Peth, Pune 411 030 children can shoot any Compassionate Friend is printed on paper © Compassionate Friend number of bluejays with free of animal substances is the copyright of their air rifles (this is and published every Beauty Without Cruelty - India. spring (February), the gun-toting South), summer (May), Unauthorised reproduction in any they must never shoot a monsoon (August) manner, without written permission mockingbird, since they and winter (November) from the publisher, is prohibited. “don’t do one thing but sing Cover: Bully Kutta. Photo courtesy: Action Wolves their hearts out for us.” Beauty Without Cruelty In November 2011, U.S. like removing antlers among males, so one must Staff Sergeant Calvin from a deer. We see here consider the concept of Gibbs, 26, of Billings, another illustration of the masculinity. If being a man Montana, was found guilty use of animals in “sport” is purely a matter of social of three counts of murder, developing a “masculine” construction (that is, we of conspiring to commit personality. create and make up gender murder and several In June 2012, French roles) than being a man in other charges, including police were hunting a group X simply involves assaulting a fellow-soldier Canadian porn actor meeting the standards of and taking fingers and a wanted for the murder being a man in group X. tooth from the dead. He and dismemberment of If that involves owning was sentenced to life in his lover. Luka Rocco guns, killing animals, prison but may be eligible Magnotta, 29, was thought and swilling beer while for parole in less than 10 to have flown from watching porn and sports, years. Montreal to Paris, said then one must do those to be a man. If it involves Soldiers repeatedly French police officials. sipping lattes, talking about described Gibbs as Media reports linked Proust and scrumptious devising “scenarios” in Mr. Magnotta to a video steaks, then one must do which his unit, in Iraq posted online in 2010 that that. So, to be a man, one or Afghanistan, would showed two kittens being must pick a group, sort fake combat situations by placed in a plastic bag and out its standards and then detonating grenades or suffocated, and another meet them as best one planting weapons near of a kitten being fed to a can. their victims. snake. These proved him, already, to be a man among In many ways, this is They said he even supplied comparable to being good: “drop weapons” and men who went on to enter the porn business and kill if being good is merely a grenades to make the social construct, then to victims appear armed. a woman. What could be more masculine? be good you must meet Some soldiers took pictures the moral standards of the Apparently animals are posing with the dead group in question. This is, here to make men out of and took body parts as of course, classic relativism us. Their suffering and trophies. Gibbs is accused (and an approach endorsed deaths are the height of of snipping fingers from by leading sophists). victims and later using impertinence, though Shakespeare wrote, But being a man is more them to intimidate another than just meeting the soldier. And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, socially-constructed He also pulled a tooth from In corporal sufferance gender standards of a group one man, saying in court finds a pang as great one wishes to belong to. As when a giant dies. that he had “disassociated” E-Mail: [email protected] the bodies from being – (3.1.85) Measure for Measure human, that taking the However, cruelty is fingers and tooth was synonymous with strength Spring 2013 1 Beauty Without Cruelty Shell-shock by Ashoke Dasgupta here are shells, shells, and shells, Tbut we focus here on the shocking cruelty to bearers of marine and freshwater shells, such as those of land snails and tortoises. Marine and freshwater shells are different from those of He sells sea-shells by the sea shore. Photo courtesy: shunya.net land snails and tortoises. attractive, covering or is easy to gather living We also consider others shell is very much a part marine creatures, kill like crabs. of its body. How, then, them and clean their shells A shell is the rigid, do beachcombers find for commercial gain. One outermost body-part of “empty” sea shells? First finds heaps of shells for a marine creature. Sea of all, few of these are sale at tourist spots along shells, freshwater shells, empty, being inhabited India’s long coastline, e.g. snail shells, mollusc by tiny lives. This was at Kanyakumari. shells, gastropod shells observed by BWC before Wouldn’t this revelation and turtle shells are a few a bagful of shells gathered be good enough a reason of the many species. on a beach were rinsed not to collect so-called or cleaned by boiling in Shells are developed “empty” sea shells as water to kill the creatures by living molluscs, mementoes of trips to inside. Other lives take crustaceans, turtles, beaches? tortoises, armadillos refuge in the “empty” and many other living shells (skeletons) after the Oysters organisms. They are original inhabitants die. The most common essential for survival It is common for marine sea shells are bivalves and serve in movement, creatures to use the shells (mussels, clams, scallops, feeding, protection and of the dead. For example, oysters and such edible defence. octopuses use clam shells shellfish) found in marine Not “empty” for shelter, and hermit as well as fresh waters. crabs use empty marine They die as soon as their A living marine creature’s gastropod shells for shells are pried open. protectively hard, protection. and often colourfully Oysters are usually It is not uncommon for consumed “fresh” or shells to be cruelly emptied eaten raw by opening – for profit – because it the shell with a shucking 2 Spring 2013 Beauty Without Cruelty of French gastronomy imported into India. The snails are said to be “hygienically grown,” being fed on a special diet of ground cereal, then cleaned, gutted and made ready for cooking in garlic butter with parsley and wine or cognac. The Central Inland Capture Fisheries Slaughtering an oyster. Photo courtesy: latimes.com Research Institute sees knife, adding a lime juice Escargot (pronounced es- nothing wrong in breeding or vinegar dressing, and ka-go) French for snails, Giant African Snails so scooping out the flesh. is one of the highlights that they can be converted Few like to kill and eat into “gastronomic raw oysters thus, so they delights.” are cooked: the heat opens Nagas consume river the shells and kills them. snails which are cooked Pearls, natural and man- with dal and sucked. made, are the result of They are purchased by long-term pain for pearl the kilogram from the oysters (living mollusc Dimapur Bazaar. shells). Searching for and Manipuri cuisine also removing the pearl inside includes river (freshwater) involves splitting the snails. Their faces are oysters open by inserting individually scooped out a knife between the two and discarded. This is valves and twisting it to followed by cutting off cut the adductor muscle the tapering ends on their holding the shell closed, third ridges so their meat thereby killing the can be sucked out easily. creature. They are then submerged in a potful of salted water. Snails After some time they are Shells are also found as rinsed, and considered protective layers on soft, clean enough for cooking. delicate freshwater creatures like mussels and snails Amputation of river snails to cook Manipuri tharoi thongba. Photo courtesy: – and even on land snails. openchallenge.tumblr.com Spring 2013 3 Beauty Without Cruelty Choona They are plunged alive Calcium hydroxide, into pots of boiling water.

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