Yesterday, Twitter became a virtual battlefield for another controversy. Zomato was at the centre of this controversy. One of the users of the Food Delivery app had cancelled an order as the delivery boy was a non-Hindu. After cancelling his order, he tweeted about it and also said that he did not even insist for a refund and he could not be forced to take delivery.
Quoting the user’s tweet, Zomato stated, “Food doesn’t have a religion. It is a religion.” With this Zomato launched a “Food does not have a religion” campaign. Zomato Founder also jumped into this controversy and tweeted, “We are proud of the idea of India – and the diversity of our esteemed customers and partners. We aren’t sorry to lose any business that comes in the way of our values.”
The argument that “food doesn’t have a religion” though an overarching claims, the pseudo-secular gang once again jumped in to churn further controversy around the issue and give another example of their hypocrisy; which forced them to claim the “Food does not have a religion” on one hand and on the other hand they conveniently bring in religious angles on different issues to suit their agenda.
A similar pseudo-secular journalist who exposed herself in this trend was Mirror Now journalist Faye D’Souza, who had earlier tried to churn a communal controversy around Akshaya Patra meals. According to the beliefs of the Akshay Patra Foundation, only satvik (pure) food is to be prepared and served. Onion and garlic are not considered satvik as per the foundation. It is considered tamasic and this is why the foundation does not include these ingredients in the meals served to children in the state. A skewed report published in The Hindu titled, “Why are Karnataka’s schoolchildren unhappy with the mid-day meal?” was used by pseudo-secularists like Faye D’Souza to come out to blame Hindu dietary traditions in the garb of liberalism. She had said, “We cannot use religious philosophy to dictate what these children will and will not eat simply because they were poor.”
Editorial — We cannot use religious philosophy to dictate what these children will or will not eat, simply because they're poor. @fayedsouza pic.twitter.com/sKWpRpb1ky
— Mirror Now (@MirrorNow) June 4, 2019
She had claimed that these two ingredients would significantly enhance the nutritional value and taste of the meals that will be served to the children. However, it seems like an absurd theory that only onion and garlic can enhance the nutritional value of a meal.
However, as the Zomato controversy erupted the same controversial journalist was fast in claiming that “Food has no Religion” while she had constantly desecrated Hindu-dietary traditions in the Akshaya Patra case.
“Akshay Patra’s food has religion
but Zomato’s food has no religion”
Right on ‘Hypocrisy’ @fayedsouza pic.twitter.com/qkEhLVVoOq— Shash (@pokershash) July 31, 2019
The Mirror Now editor who had accused Akshay Patra of religious bigotry over food now has overnight found that food actually does not have a religion, as it suits her agenda to peddle skewed political narrative. Many religions like Islam and Judaism also have strict rules on the type of food that can be consumed, For journalist like Faye D’Souza, only Indic traditions are a problem to their liberal utopia while they eat a frog and claim “Food has no Religion” when it suits their agenda.
