Saturday, 5 February 2011

How to stay on a high: Eat Vegetables apparently!!!

This is something that has baffled me no end, my life at the moment isn't exactly smooth sailing, however I somehow manage to remain on a high. The Times which over the years has been my source of enlightenment has once again proved to be worth the premium it demands in the News market and now I know the reason behind the perpetual grin plastered on my face.

Today's edition of  the Sunday Times carries an article where it reports that the farmers in rural areas of Nashik, Pune and the Konkan regions are spraying country liquor on vegetables and also feeding it to chicken. They claim it makes the vegetables shinier and the chickens fatter, the only ones whining about this state of affairs are the Agro Scientists who disapprove of the practice. I think some farmer must have got his hands on the research papers by Dr Bose who proved it all those years ago that plants feel pain, understand affection etc and decided to feed his plants with liquor to get them on a high thereby making them forget their "gham/ dukh/ dard"  and thereby give a better output.

As I read this article, my over imaginative mind went into turbo mode painting a picture of how plants and chicken must be reacting at spray/feed time. I'm sure the addicted plants must be whispering to each other "Naaragi/ mosambi kuch bhi pila..."

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