India is truly a magical country, with wild animals running around on the streets, chaotic law and order, but not much government.
Streets of India
Not only that, Indians can make "garbage fish" scavengers into delicious food, but catfish flooded but no one eats it, very strange, what is the reason behind it? Let's take a look together.
The body structure of a scavenger
The magical Ganges
When it comes to Indian fish, we have to mention the Ganges River on which they depend.
Whenever there is an epidemic disease in the world, the miraculous Indian high-ranking official always asks the people to drink more Ganges water, and said that the Ganges water comes from heaven and has the ability to cure all diseases.
But everyone with scientific knowledge knows that the water of the Ganges is nothing more than a river where snowmelt from snow-capped mountains and summer precipitation converges everywhere, and is not the so-called "divine water" at all.
See the Ganges from the map
With the development of industrialization and urbanization in India, the water of the Ganges River has gradually been polluted by people.
People discharge household garbage and various pollutants into the Ganges every day, and in the eyes of the locals, the Ganges is the mother river that nurtures them, has the divine power to hold everything, and this garbage is also cleaned up by the gods they believe in.
Of course, this is just a psychological comfort, the main reason why Indians dump garbage in the Ganges is that the population is too large, the amount of garbage generated every day is incalculable, and the government is unable to deal with this garbage, and can only rely on the Ganges' own repair ability to deal with it.
On one side of the Ganges is a mountain of people, and on the other side is a sea of garbage
However, as the amount of garbage dumped has increased, it has far exceeded the acceptable limits of the Ganges, and the water of the Ganges is now muddy and seriously exceeds the drinkable standard.
However, many people in the dark are still happy to pour it in, thinking that the Ganges will solve all their problems.
Speaking of this, many friends will be curious, what does the pollution of the Ganges River in India have to do with the catfish and scavengers we are talking about?
The sought-after scavenger and the unattended catfish
Heavily polluted and murky waters like the Ganges happen to be a favorite place for scavengers and catfish, which are home to numerous catfish and scavengers.
Catfish body structure
Many Indians depend on catching the fish in it for a living, and scavengers are one of their biggest aquatic products.
Anyone who has eaten a scavenger knows that the scavenger has less meat and more bones, and the meat quality is still very woody, and it makes people very appetizing in one bite.
However, catfish that survive in the same environment are different, and the meat of catfish is fatty and tender, and is sought after by many consumers at home and abroad.
Characteristics of catfish
However, the amazing Indians chose to make the scavengers delicious, instead ignoring the catfish and allowing it to flood in the Ganges.
The biggest reason is that they have different diets.
Scavengers feed on pollutants in the water, known as "garbage cleaners", the purpose of the mainland to introduce scavengers is to clean the water source, but who knows that they did not grasp the scale, so that they flooded in the water body.
Moreover, the scavengers' diet is relatively single, basically eating pollutants and nutrients, and the garbage dumped by Indians every day is enough for them to eat for a while.
The body structure of a scavenger
Therefore, the scavengers in Indian waters are relatively large, they have more meat on them, and their edibility is superior to the scavengers we usually see.
Of course, it is not excluded that the reasons for the lack of food for Indians, their population is too large, especially the poor people of the middle and lower classes, in the case of food shortage, whether he is good or not, fill the stomach first.
However, catfish are different, and even if they starve to death, they may not choose to eat catfish.
Because catfish have a very mixed diet, as long as it is a substance that can provide energy for the body, it can be swallowed.
India also has the custom of water burial.
When relatives die, Indians will use some simple tools to tie the body and sink into the Ganges River, so that the loved ones can return to nature, and the catfish may gnaw the body at this time.
Ganges water burial
This is the most primitive water burial custom, because there is an unknown floating corpse in two or three days on the Ganges, which has a bad impact on the image of the country.
So they improved the practice of water burial, cremating the bodies of their loved ones and then scattering the ashes into the Ganges.
These ashes are rich in nutrients and are a favorite of catfish, which come around to grab food whenever people scatter their ashes.
So, Indians hate catfish very much, and they also eat the corpses of their relatives, what is the difference between eating them and eating people?
Catfish: Blame me?
Catfish has become India's least popular fish, and even home-farmed catfish has almost no market in the country.
On the other hand, the scavenger, although it may not taste good, but at least it is passable.
Many friends may have questions, why do Indians not eat catfish meat, but strongly advocate drinking Ganges water?
A fierce warrior who drinks the water of the Ganges
Aren't there bodies of their loved ones in the water? In theory, they should feel resistant in their hearts.
This point should be explained from two aspects.
On the one hand, the Ganges is the most important river in India, and its status in India is even higher than that of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in China.
If they don't drink Ganges water, then there is no water available in all of India.
Previously, a small number of Indians were also very resistant to the water source in the Ganges, but under official propaganda, Indians gradually turned from being receptive to loving the Ganges.
Do you dare to speak to the mouth of the Ganges
This brings us to the other hand, the change in the concept of Indians, who believe that relatives are in the river, and drinking the water will not only not be psychologically burdened, but will be blessed by their relatives.
From a scientific point of view, the Indian approach is somewhat contradictory, but from a religious standpoint, there is indeed some truth.
For the Chinese people, even the scavengers of the Ganges are difficult to swallow, but for the Indians, it is a Taoist cuisine, and the reason for this is closely related to the concept of food.
Different diets
For Indians, their pursuit of food is not as harsh as Chinese, and throughout the history of India, they do not have many good food.
Previously, Indian aloe vera juice, which was popular on the Internet, used dozens of dark spices and was ridiculed by netizens as a drink full of periodic tables.
Street vendors selling aloe vera juice in India
We can see from this that the Indian people's pursuit of food stays at the level of food and clothing.
That is to say, for them, whether it is good or not is secondary, the main thing is whether it can be eaten, as long as it can fill the stomach, there is no harm to the body, and it is in line with their religious concepts, it is food.
Therefore, it is normal that many strange foods on the streets of India are difficult for us to understand, after all, the economic development level of the mainland and India is very different.
Indians kill fish
Of course, there are many strange operations of Indians, such as when they kill fish, they are not called killing fish, but "the fish hits itself".
Why do you say that? Because Indians believe in Buddhism, most people have the habit of not killing, and when fishmongers have to face killing fish, they put a machete on the cutting board and hit the head of the fish, fooling themselves into thinking that this is the fish committing suicide, and can naturally eat it.
Quickly slice the fish into the pot
From this way of "fish forced suicide", it is not difficult to see that the people of India have "respect" for life, but not much.
Although this practice of Indians has been criticized by many netizens as "fake embarrassment", we can actually get some thoughts from it, after all, with the development of urbanization and industrialization, we have destroyed the habitat of too many wild animals, can we use reasonable means to protect rare animals? .