Eat Meat Hit the Street---Is it fair or stinky??

[Guest guest]

I guess I would jump at the chance to be in a neighborhood with only

vegetarians-- based on a very practicle point-- if only because THAT

would mean only vegetarian smells in the air on a daily basis!

The reasons for buying a home or renting in a certain neighborhoods

often includes quality of life issues...Some subdivisions will only

allow seniors(ppl over 55) to move in because of noise issues. I

once rented a condo that did not allow children. Some subdivisions

even insist that a person cut the lawnto meet standards set by

housing committees.

 

(If the length of grass can be restricted in a free society, I guess

odors can be an issue too! Where do I sign up??

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--I just think that people don't want to believe that vegetarians

have the same equal status or rights.

 

Interesting stuff!!!

 

thanks

 

 

 

 

, Donnalilacflower

<thelilacflower wrote:

>

> This is an article in today's New Bedford, MA Standard

> Times...

>

> Eat meat? Hit the street!

>

> The Associated Press Trendy neighborhood developments

> in Bombay are

> increasingly shutting out non-vegetarian house-hunters

> and renters.

>

> BOMBAY, India — Never mind pets, smokers or loud music

> at 2 a.m.

> House hunters in Bombay increasingly are being asked:

> " Do you eat

> meat? "

> If yes, the deal is off.

> As this city of 16 million becomes the cosmopolitan

> main nerve of a

> booming Indian economy, real estate is increasingly

> intersecting

> with cuisine. More middle-class Indians are moving in,

> more of them

> are vegetarian, and the law is on their side.

> " Some people are very strict. They won't sell to a

> nonvegetarian

> even if he offers a higher price than a vegetarian, "

> said real

> estate broker Norbert Pinto.

> Vegetarianism is a centuries-old custom among Hindus,

> Jains and

> others in India. The government reckons India has some

> 220 million

> vegetarians, more than anywhere else in the world.

> " Veg or non-veg? " is heard constantly in restaurants,

> at dinner

> parties and on airlines. And the question has long

> been an unwritten

> part of the interrogation house hunters must submit

> to.

> But it's becoming more open, and the effects more

> noticeable, all

> the more so in Bombay, which attracts immigrants from

> Gujarat and

> Rajasthan, strongly vegetarian states, as well as

> followers of the

> Jain religion.

> In constitutionally secular India, there's no bar to

> forming a

> housing society and making an apartment block

> exclusively Catholic

> or Muslim, Hindu or Zoroastrian.

> Vegetarians say they too need segregation.

> " I live in a cosmopolitan society, " said Jayantilal

> Jain, trustee of

> a charity group. " But vegetarians should be given the

> right to admit

> who they want. "

> Rejected home-seekers have mounted a slew of court

> challenges to the

> power of housing societies to discriminate, but last

> year India's

> highest tribunal ruled the practice legal.

> " It's just not fair. It's a monopoly by vegetarians, "

> said Kiran

> Talwar, 49, a prosthetics engineer who has seen

> vegetarianism take

> over restaurants and groceries all over his childhood

> neighborhood

> on posh Nepeansea Road.

> " If you step out to eat, there's nothing for miles

> because

> everything around is veggie, " he said.

> Vikramaditya Ugra, a young Bombay banker in search of

> an apartment,

> said vegetarian colonies were fine in neighboring

> Gujarat, a state

> dominated by vegetarians. " That's in tune with local

> sensitivity, "

> he said.

> " But to impose this restriction is not right in a

> cosmopolitan city

> like Bombay. "

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

You're welcome cuppa, I thought it was an interesting read too, and I

wanted to pass it along.

Donna

 

 

, " cuppa_2u " <cuppa_2u

wrote:

>

> I guess I would jump at the chance to be in a neighborhood with only

> vegetarians-- based on a very practicle point-- if only because THAT

> would mean only vegetarian smells in the air on a daily basis!

> The reasons for buying a home or renting in a certain neighborhoods

> often includes quality of life issues...Some subdivisions will only

> allow seniors(ppl over 55) to move in because of noise issues. I

> once rented a condo that did not allow children. Some subdivisions

> even insist that a person cut the lawnto meet standards set by

> housing committees.

>

> (If the length of grass can be restricted in a free society, I guess

> odors can be an issue too! Where do I sign up??

> }{a }{a )

> --I just think that people don't want to believe that vegetarians

> have the same equal status or rights.

>

> Interesting stuff!!!

>

> thanks

>

>

[Guest guest]

I thinkin India at least some of the vegetarians are veg for religious

reasons. (At least, two of my Indian friends are.) So perhaps there's

more to it than strictly food choice.