Hindu vegetarians sue Indian restaurant for serving Meat

[JI7]

For some, vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice, made for various health, moral and environmental reasons. For others, the consumption of meat means more. For the strict Hindu vegetarians who accidentally consumed meat samosas, the mistake identifies them as complicit in the murder of God’s creatures, a crime requisite of a cleansing visit to India, paid for by the restaurant.

Two years ago, Durgesh Gupta and Sharad Agrawal ordered a tray of vegetarian samosas for a group of 16 similarly vegetarian people from Mughal Express. The tray, CNN reports, was labelled, “VEG samosas.” Upon eating the traditional deep-fried pastries, the customers grew concerned about the content and returned the tray, only to find that a mistake had been made.

The group of Hindus sued the popular New Jersey restaurant, but a lower court dismissed the case. According to CNN, a state appellate court saw the case differently however, deciding Wednesday that the victims could sue the Indian restaurant for the cost of travel to India.

By traveling to the holy town of Haridwar, India, the group of “sinners” can enter the Ganges where it begins its journey to the ocean and, by Hindu belief, purify themselves.

http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/article/hindu_vegetarians_13237/


there is nothing cleansing about the Ganges which might really cause some serious problems unlike eating meat

[lightningandsnow]

1. While this may be a bit excessive,

it's not that the restaurant was serving meat, it's that they were informed of a dietary restriction and weren't careful about it. Luckily it wasn't a food allergy - a similar mix-up with someone with a food allergy could put them in the hospital, or worse.

That being said, as a person of faith, I have a hard time believing that the higher power(s) would punish someone so harshly for a mistake.

[ZombieHorde]

2. The subject line is a bit misleading. nt

[Kolesar]

3. A vacation trip to India--I call them freeloaders eom

[Igel]

8. Perhaps order a few bottles of Ganges water for them to splash around?

Of course, it's probably not legal to bring toxic waste like that into the country without a permit.

They didn't kill the animals themselves, eat much of the animals (like there's going to be meat from just one critter there, even if it's all beef), or even know about it.

Which sort of poses the question: The FDA has limits for the number of dead bug bits in various spices, and I always thought that one of the benefits of using finely pre-ground spices was that you didn't have to worry about the chance of running into a recognizable bug bit. I've eaten canned veggies that turned out to have processed, sterilized bugs in them. I ate half a larva in part of a pickle once (the other half was left in the uneaten pickle. And you don't know what I've found on my plate after dishing up homegrown kale and collards. (And did I mean I keep vaguely kosher--the straining out a gnat kind, not the don't-mix-beef/milk kind--so I'm on the lookout for creepy critters in my chow?) So, what? They're magically or divinely protected from ingesting dead bugs and their separated and possibly pulverized body bits but the Force went into helpless meltdown when faced with ground-up dead vertebrate carcass?

[JI7]

4. also if they feel that strongly about it why even eat at a place that serves meat ?

[bluestate10]

5. Bingo. WINNER!!! nt

[Lucky Luciano]

6. yep! nt

[Swede]

7. With a side order of grift.

[uppityperson]

9. If I were vegetarian and was served meat like this, I'd be pissed. But not to

getting a trip to India. However, I'm not this religion.