Enough reasons to go veg

Very few people know these facts. But in short, for a single day of non-veg diet, someone loses 20days of veg food.

• A lot more water is required in animal agriculture than in plant agriculture. It takes only about 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat and around 390 gallons to produce just one pound of beef. In fact, It takes less water to produce the food that a pure vegetarian needs for one year than to produce the food that a meat eater needs for a month.
• Animal production requires a lot of fossil fuels. Fuels are needed to transport animal feed, to heat their housing, and to take the animals to slaughter, meat packing plants, and grocery stores. The burning of these fuels, as well as methane produced by the animals, is one cause of global warming.
• Number of pure vegetarians who can be fed on the amount of land needed to feed one person consuming a meat-based diet: 20
• For each quarter-pound fast food hamburger sold that came from cattle raised on former rainforest land, 55 square feet of rainforest was destroyed.
• 60 million people will starve to death this year - 60 million people could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 percent.

These are just the top few reasons – for more google it.
--cheers,
JswaroopR

Slumdog Millionaire

One of my friend was telling me at the mess table (where else!), 'bout this movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Thought i could share my review on my blog.

This movie slumdog millionaire is about a "slumdog" becoming a millionaire...
OK let me put it this way, an uneducated boy from the slums of mumbai winning 20 million rupees by playing the game - "who wants to be a millionaire?"
The movie has been directed in a very different way, a way one might not even expect on knowing its story. (stop reading this post if you have already seen it, and stop reading it if you dont wana see it). The movie starts with this guy in a police station! And he is one question away from winning that big fat prize money! So how does Danny Boyle (the director) expect us to know the entire movie huh? The story of the "slumdog" is shown slowly clip by clip rather than showing his entire story once and then the game. Movie has 3 parallel stories (4 if you are having popcorn!) - one is in the police station where he was being interrogated if he really knew the answers or he was cheating, second being the actual game - which was also being watched in the police station (recorded video of course - not live) and the last (if arent having popcorn) is his story and how he came to know the answers. It turns out that he wasnt cheating all the way in the game - every question in the game was related to a part of his life which gave him the answer.

Its funny the way his life has answers to every question that he was asked (except may be the naiton emblem one). Also it was touching - showing the indian masses the way eveyone would love to watch. This movie has been rated 8.7 in IMDB. (not a bad rating isnt it). Anyway i am not giving anymore details of the movie for the sake of people who havent watched it yet! (neither did i give that "slumdog's" name).

Thank me if you like it, and i prefer you not telling me if you dont!

Anyway, heres its trailer: