Okay, straight forward, here's a very valid argument to end animal slaughter in your own household. And this is for those families who carry on with the animal sacrifices during Dashain or any other time of year just because it is a tradition and our culture. Wake up you all!
Get a sound knowledge about your culture and tradition before going and taking lives in the name of it! Animal sacrifice basically means to present the gods all five basic elements - wind, water, land, fire and sky. These are represented by the animal's meat, blood, breath etc. You should take note of this if you fail in stopping animal sacrifices this year so that you can argue well next year.
But these five elements are well taken care of by the 'Shagun' we offer, which includes meat, raksi, egg, bara (wo) and fish. So why make the same symbolic offerings twice?
Are we so dumb that we follow whatever others do or continue the same mistaken traditions our predecessors have made? Do we not have minds of our own to try and learn what each symbolic tradition is all about before we go and spend huge amounts of cash as if we were the richest country in the world? If you want to eat meat, eat it. I am not arguing that animals should not me killed or eaten. All I am saying is, don't make God an excuse to do so.
What it took me, personally, to end animal sacrifices at home was going vegetarian and giving my Dad a day of great headache. But it worked because killing all those ducks would be wasting their lives and wasting money as nobody in the house except my mom was a true non-vegetarian. I never fancied the taste of meat and my father's been a vegetarian for almost two decades and still he did all the killing because it was tradition. But my stance compelled him to think about the whole 'tradition' issue over.
Three years back, my instincts told me that animal sacrifices were wrong but I didn't know such a valid argument about the five elements involved in the animal sacrifices existed. But now, you do. You don't have to become vegetarian, but you can at least pretend to do so for a while. When eating stops, the killing will too. Besides, it’s a smaller sacrifice!
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7 comments:
Yes, I totally agree! Animal sacrifices in the name of God needs to end. Killing animals to eat has a genuine cause, however, killing on the pretext of God seems more cosmetic, or should I say, it simply displays psychotic behavior. Killing for thrill!! It has got no spiritualism in it, I am pretty sure.
Animal sacrifice in the name of religion is barbaric, crime, punishable act. It is foolish belief. They should be put on Trial.
Yes, let's put all the animals on trail!! Yes! Yes!!
Why the fuck would you put animals on trial??? Bikesh is talking about putting the perpetrator on trial, not the animals.
Because the subject of the sentence were the animals predicated with the trial:) Besides, why shouldn't they (animals) be put on trial? The land where the voice of truth is as irritating as a frigging mosquito in your honeymoon bed(do you have any idea how much disturbing a mosquito can be amidst love-making?), why not put up these dumb animals on trial? You know.. just in case if they happen to win it, they would be spared of their lives? My! My! there's a lot at stake here, isn't it? And I am almost certain that both you and the lawyer sir above suggesting the trial wear a shiny fancy black/brown "Pure leather" shoe made out of one of the animal's skin. Oh, there it is, another point for the jury in favor of those damned animals. I really see no problem killing the animals in hte name of a fucking religion than killing them in the name of even-more-fucking fashion. Yeah, I see no other way out of this. These animals have to be put on Trial. Yes! Yes!!
killing animals in the name of god is really insane..infact those innocent animals are also the creations of god...so how god will be happy to see his own creations being killed...
Please stop animal sacrifice
Subash
I agree...end the sacrifices. I was horrified to find goat parts in the alley when I traveled there during the festival-not to mention the smell that lingered over the next few days--
It is barbaric. I hate to see things suffer.
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