We are bad people if we do not respect their barbaric, savage ways, I am told.
They don’t bring it over here, as far as I know. There are worse actors on the world stage than India. They should be evangelized, but massive animal sacrifice is not the primary reason.
What animal equality campaigners have called …“Animal equality campaigners” regard all animals to be on human level (and conversely, that no human is above an animal in terms of rights), and blather about their strawman called “speciesism”, which focuses on human ownership of animals for food and work and equates it to racism and human slavery.
Quite a culture. Did the local PETA organization complain?
If they’re killing buffaloes, they’re not really mainstream Hindu, and therefore this criticism does not apply to that religion.
I saw this and much worse living there in 2012 in the slums.
Animal sacrifices are every day depending on the demands of the 300 million official major gods they worship.
What is worse is the way the Hindus beat and slaughter Christians. A mob will rend apart a person and beat them with poles and stones in a heartbeat. Sometimes simply because they are accused of a bogus charge because they are hated.
Living there changed my entire view of everything.
We have no idea as Americans by and large, how good we have it here.
But we are slowly turning into the very system that gives rise to what I saw over there: a caste system that makes institutionalized persecution, legal - and a people who hate truth - and consider swindling and theft an attribute of cleverness.
There is a bit of a problem in Judaism as well. That is, when and if a new temple is rebuilt, it must be sanctified with animal sacrifice.
Already there are loud and angry disputes among Jews between a growing number of vegetarians and animal rights activists, and those who endorse Shechita (the slaughtering of mammals and birds for food, today (in English) used to describe “kosher slaughter.”)
To go beyond that into ritual sacrifice in debate really causes knock-down-drag-outs.
I have the kukri knife I bought and my family used to chop the head off a goat.
I assure you, it's one swift slice, and the head is off.
My Nepali father was a policeman. They slaughtered dozens of goats and water buffalo to their police vehicles. Every single head came off in one chop. The animal never experience a thing for more than the slightest fraction of a second.
Here's the head of the goat we ate:
I can assure you that not a single bit of any animal is wasted. Those folks rarely eat meat, and any killed critter will be completely eaten.
While barbaric, it is nowhere near as barbaric as slitting the throats of children for saying that they “love Jesus,” as was recently done by ISIS. So yeah, this is not real high on my list of things to worry about...
Do you realize that the head chopping is extremely quick and the animal doesn’t suffer?
Do you realize that the people of Nepal eat virtually no meat, so that the unusual ritual slaughter is nothing (numbers-wise) to the use of meat in America?
Do you realize that Kosher slaughter is worse, by hanging the animal upside down and slitting its throat? And I have kept kosher. That rule was promulgated by G-d to help alleviate the animal’s suffering, but it is surely worse than an incredibly swift decapitation.
Have you been there? Have you seen it?
Methinks you’re digging too hard for a controversy.
And there's the money quote. PETA said so. So you had better all agree or you're mean.
I should have said, “While possibly barbaric,” but given that the animals are eaten per Freepers’ comments above, I strike even “possibly.”
Where do people think meet in the supermarket comes from?
When the Gurkhas engage in ritual sacrifices the whole point is that the animal must be dispatched cleanly, with a single blow. Causing suffering to the animal while you hack away at its neck is not only not intended, but cause for opprobium. Or so I have read.
Do they possess legal ownership of those animals? Yes. Do they dispatch those animals swiftly? Yes. Beyond those two points it is not my business, and frankly there are greatly more important issues than the dirty masses chopping heads off of animals, one of them being muzzy animals chopping heads off of humans.
I used to follow your writings here and on Facebook and now just find your stuff like this tedious and sort of naive and think that it obscures the good work that you do.
We need to be honest and know that each and every one of these animals died here, too.
I don’t think I ever heard that Eastern religions are good for animals. Brutality seems to be a part of many pagan religions, including the child sacrifices of American humanism.
Absolutely disgusting. IF the slaughterer is a trained person AND the knife/sword is razor sharp, this MIGHT be a humane killing. But I saw pics of swords being sold to sacrifice animals and they were obviously rusty and dull. Also, how many kills can you make before your arms get tired and you botch the next poor animal? Also, the buffalo calves they were going to kill were right next to recent victims. I am sure the blood and hectic motions terrified them for the time they had left to live. I spit on these barbarians.
oh but I thought all cultures are the same /s
Having participated in both, I can as assure you that hunting is a more horrifying death for the animal. Do you condemn freeper hunters more than Hindus?