Browsing Tag: Meat

Here is one topic that is always a hot button subject for many Sikhs. Typically most Sikhs refrain from eating meat, however there are many mixed opinions and practices. In this video Guruka Singh answers a SikhNet user's question about this topic and hopefully gives you some new things to think about.

A Sikh community has appealed to the High Court in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the U.K. to stop the building of a meat processing plant next to the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara.

Scores of questions, but no satisfactory answers. Did British ministers really know back in 2011 that horsemeat had entered domestic food supplies? Might the scandal now include donkeys?

With further study this made sense to me. We have lived and evolved for hundreds of thousands of years eating primarily fruits, vegetables, and the occasional animal that we could catch. We are very well genetically adapted to eating these foods.

It turns out that arsenic has routinely been fed to poultry (and sometimes hogs) because it reduces infections and makes flesh an appetizing shade of pink. There’s no evidence that such low levels of arsenic harm either chickens or the people eating them, but still...

A long-term study finds that eating any amount and any type increases the risk of premature death. Eating red meat is associated with a sharply increased risk of death from cancer and heart disease, according to a new study, and the more of it you eat, the greater the risk.

Beef is not the only meat to avoid. If you ask anyone what is the most toxic meat, most people would probably say pork. This has been true for some time because pigs have been famous for carrying viruses, parasites, and worms. Recently however, chicken has been dubbed the most toxic meat.

Some people ask where is it written in Gurbani that meat and sharaab (alcohol) are forbidden?