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Protection of Cows
- Thread starter Aupmanyav
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Sb1995
Om Sai Ram
Lol what? You do realize India is not a country of just Vegetarian Hindus? There are Christians, Muslims, and even millions of Hindu's including myself who eat meat daily. Banning slaughterhouses would never happen.
Okay, fine. But I do hope that the government tries to teach people more on issues like caste system, discrimination, animal rights, etc to the public.
Asha
Member
It is a sad day when poeple dare to laugh at this topic,
Be carefull or you will come back as a cow in your next Life, then you will be praying forthe banning of slaughter houses.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
You see, Axylyz, the previous government had a stake in religion and castes. They acted like vote banks for them. Castes and religion was imposed on people. When the Supreme Court asked the government if 'affirmative action' could be based on economic criteria, they said no, it must be based on castes. A victory for this government is a defeat of religious and caste equations to some extent.
Poeticus
| abhyAvartin |
While the obvious amount of concentration should rather go towards building more [public] toilets [accessible to any and all, especially the poor], addressing the unfair treatment meddled out to the feminine divine, decreasing state-corruption, fortifying border routes and areas, and increasing the availability of food and water and its relation to poverty ... I applaud such a move by the Modi government. Not a big amount, but a good beginning. This is probably the first in the history of India (since 1947), that the national government did something overtly pro-Hindu. Plus, where there is an increase in the presence of go-raksha, there should be an increase in the efficacy of dharma, as per the shastra-s - if I'm not mistaken. Let's hope so, friends.
Sb1995
Om Sai Ram
@axlyz, I totally agree my friend.
@Asha, What's there to be careful about? You do know that meat comes in variety, not just cow. I eat chicken, turkey, ham, eggs..There are 300+ million Muslims in India, they can eat beef if they want it's their choice.
What about the Hindus as well? Wouldn't imported meat cost a lot more than usual?
I'm orthodox. Hindus who can't recognise ahimsa for what it is deserve to pay more.
A vegetarian diet is a lot cheaper, better for the environment, and in accordance with ahimsa. It's too each his own though. Remember, we can still eat dairy, and if the cows get better treatment the dairy industry will boom.
I'm orthodox. Hindus who can't recognise ahimsa for what it is deserve to pay more.
Remember, we can still eat dairy, and if the cows get better treatment the dairy industry will boom.
Yes, vegetarian diet is the diet of the Vedas. However, I'm a Vegan atm solely because of the brutality of the dairy industry in the USA. Is there a really bad dairy industry in Canada? What about India? I always thought that in India milk was taken by hand right?
Regards
I have no idea about India, and it's kind of hard to figure out. I think our dairy industry in Canada is probably only slightly different than yours.
Namaste
This is great news. Thank you Modi, hopefully his actions will influence the US. Actually, do not be surprised, there is a growing sentiment and actual centers now for protecting and taking in our domestic animal friends including cows, and there is a cow protection movement too.
Of a side note, today while I was on the North Shore (Oahu), I learned that in the old days King Kamehameha of Hawaii decred a "kapu" or Royal Protection on Cows, they could roam freely and not killed. Not exactly as in some parts of India, but true none the less. I had noticed some cows in the jungley trees and brush and this subject came up.
Om Namah Sivaya
This is great news. Thank you Modi, hopefully his actions will influence the US. Actually, do not be surprised, there is a growing sentiment and actual centers now for protecting and taking in our domestic animal friends including cows, and there is a cow protection movement too.
Of a side note, today while I was on the North Shore (Oahu), I learned that in the old days King Kamehameha of Hawaii decred a "kapu" or Royal Protection on Cows, they could roam freely and not killed. Not exactly as in some parts of India, but true none the less. I had noticed some cows in the jungley trees and brush and this subject came up.
Om Namah Sivaya
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Slightly off topic - slaughterhouses don't simply slaughter cattle. They also slaughter buffalo, camels, goat and sheep.
If you close all the slaughterhouses in a country, where does the excess cattle go? We cannot just let it go to pasture, we don't have enough and it will die. Perhaps it would be best to phase them out through the limitation of beef cattle being bred? So that farmers may only breed a certain amount, with each year the quota becoming less and less until no more cattle may be bred for meat purposes? But then it is sure that they will be bred for their leather and certain other things and... well, it's a waste to breed anything just for its skin. If its meat can go to feed the hungry, shouldn't it? So long as it is treated as humanely as absolutely possible?
In Australia cattle are not allowed to killed just for the skin but in other countries it is rampant. If you are selling the skin here you better be selling the meat too.
Personally, I'm all for the phasing out of cattle farming. It's detrimental to the environment and the amount of cattle we bred for meat and leather are a major contributor to global warming.
Consider, also, that much of the world's population is actually lactose intolerant... perhaps we could also phase out the dairy industry too, from which we get a nice portion of our meat (at least in Australia).
If you close all the slaughterhouses in a country, where does the excess cattle go? We cannot just let it go to pasture, we don't have enough and it will die. Perhaps it would be best to phase them out through the limitation of beef cattle being bred? So that farmers may only breed a certain amount, with each year the quota becoming less and less until no more cattle may be bred for meat purposes? But then it is sure that they will be bred for their leather and certain other things and... well, it's a waste to breed anything just for its skin. If its meat can go to feed the hungry, shouldn't it? So long as it is treated as humanely as absolutely possible?
In Australia cattle are not allowed to killed just for the skin but in other countries it is rampant. If you are selling the skin here you better be selling the meat too.
Personally, I'm all for the phasing out of cattle farming. It's detrimental to the environment and the amount of cattle we bred for meat and leather are a major contributor to global warming.
Consider, also, that much of the world's population is actually lactose intolerant... perhaps we could also phase out the dairy industry too, from which we get a nice portion of our meat (at least in Australia).
Asha
Member
Namaste
There are many things to be careful about in this life, yes I am aware of course that there are many animals that some humans choose to eat.
And although I am a Vaisnava who like many Hindu treat the cow as our mother and regard her as sacred, we are usualy very strict in that we are what is often refered to as Pure Vegetarian, which means we do not eat any other sentient being, this includes eggs.
We do this as all sentient life contain the same jivatma, therefore eating living beings is eating the equal of ourselves.
And yes you have the choice to do what you like, but you must aceppt the Karmic concequences.
chinu
chinu
Just wondering why do some people do Cow-pray. A cow who cannot save herself, how will she save others ?
Do anybody care to answer me.