Animal Sacrifice

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Mary Ann's post got me thinking about it and I have to say that for the most

part I have no problems with it.

 

 

Now I didn't ever have to live near someone's private farm! But in West

Bengal I saw many sacrifices of goats (Boli) dedicated to Ma Kali. I know that

while many Hindus practice vegetarianism Shaivas and Shaktas generally eat meat,

is it not so????

 

I also took some photos of boli happening at Tarapith. Observing the

proceedings I saw that the animals were treated very well up until that last

moment

when their head is decapitated in the harikhat. I also asked differen temple

Pujaris and Bengalis about the practice at times and what I always heard was

that

the animal simply must be killed in one shot because otherwise the ritual is

impure.

 

Now this along with the fact that they eat the meat afterwards having

consecrated it to Ma I caoont codemn it because it is a much kinder practice all

around then what we see in our factory farms where animals are locked in tiny

fithy boxes with no real activity and then killed and mutilated by machines.

This

type of large scale suffering encouraged by the need for "fast food" does

bother me and I consider it to be a sin against the creator however you look at

it

because we come from nature.

 

Now, I have talked to people who practice Santeria and some of them do indeed

offer animals to their spirits but do not eat them afterwards, namely

roosters. This bothers me bcause 1. I like roosters, but more importantly 2. it

just

seems wasteful to cause the death of a living thing without using as much of

it as possible afterwads.

 

Just my teo cents