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Thiruvalluvar day: Chennai Corporation announces ban on meat sale on Jan 15

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/thiruvalluvar-day-chennai-corporation-announces-ban-on-meat-sale-on-jan-15/articleshow/56480641.cms

CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation has announced a ban on sale of meat, including processed meat, on January 15, on account of Thiruvalluvar day.

In a statement on Wednesday, the local body said slaughterhouses operated by the corporation's health department at Pulianthope, Villivakam and Saidapet would not function on Sunday.

The corporation added that the ban on meat sale would extend to supermarkets and commercial complexes retailing processed meat.

Background on Thiruvalluvar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvalluvar#Religion

Valluvar is generally thought to have belonged to either Jainism or Hinduism.[54][55][56] Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism were the three religions that flourished in the Indian subcontinent during the time of Valluvar.[57] Early 19th-century writers proposed that Valluvar may have been a Jain. The 1819 translation by Francis Whyte Ellis mentions that the Tamil community debates whether Valluvar was a Jain or Hindu.[58] If Valluvar was indeed a Jain, it raises questions about the source of the traditional Valluvar legends and the mainstream colonial debate about his birth.[58]

Kamil Zvelebil believes that the ethics of the Tirukkuṟaḷ reflects the Jain moral code, particularly moral vegetarianism (couplets 251–260), and ahimsa, that is, "abstention from killing" (couplets 321–333). Zvelebil states that the text contains epithets for God that reflect Jain ideology:[59]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism#Historical_background

According to the famous Tamil classic, Tirukkuṛaḷ, which is also considered a Jain work by some scholars:

If the world did not purchase and consume meat, no one would slaughter and offer meat for sale. (Kural 256)[68]

(The line in bold is a good rebuttal to the "Buddhist" mentioned in the previous post)

But unfortunately, the very next year:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/chennai-corporation-seizes-431-meat-on-thiruvalluvar-day/articleshow/62524600.cms
Chennai Corporation seizes 431 meat on Thiruvalluvar Day

CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation on Monday seized meat from vendors who had illegally sold the item despite a prohibitory order issued by the civic body. The city corporation prohibited sale and processing of meat on Monday, January 15, on account of Thiruvalluvar Day.

Sigh....

As they say, you can lead a non-Aryan to the water...:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/uneducable-gentiles/msg6550/#msg6550
(Also the meat sellers don't have an excuse of "not letting the food go to waste" as they were already made aware of the restriction the previous year. Therefore the onus is on them to adjust their supply accordingly. What do you think?)

Speaking of which, I have seen many secular-humanist types in the Dravidian-speaking states who purport to be anti-casteist (rightfully) herald Thiruvalluvar as an anti-Vedic poet and as an icon for Dravidian peoples. But when it comes to actually following his teachings, particularly in regards to meat-eating, these people go silent, instead advocating eating beef to "oppose" Brahmanism. If they really were intent on fighting Brahmanism for its double standard on beef-eating, why not embrace the anti-Brahmanic vegetarianism of the Jain Thiruvalluvar? Goes to show that these non-Aryans are probably not even intent on fighting Brahmanism in the first place.

These are the same degenerates who probably would have sided with the Vedics back in the day! All they would have had to do was give up beef-eating (while still eating other meats), and they could ascend in the Vedic hierarchy. It would have fit perfectly with their prior lifestyle, and indeed would have been an improvement to them insofar as they would have found the Aryan Suryavanshi worldview too restrictive.