Reply #65: Precisely. What's the difference? [View All]

[Prana69]

Go to any abbattoir or slaughterhouse and you'll see this mass killing happening on a daily basis, not just once every 5 years.

What seems to offend people is that this is done out in the open, and as some form of religious ceremony; which somehow makes it so much more barbaric and primitive than what we in "civilised" countries do - out of public view so the general population can remain in denial of the truth about what they are eating and how it is killed.

I think this Hindu ceremony is ridiculously backward and inhumane, but at least they:

1. Are prepared to do it openly and have no pretenses about what it is they are killing and consuming.
2. Attach some significance to the process by doing it as part of a religious ceremony. In developed countries we just birth them, grow them, kill them without a single thought or concern.

Just because you don't take part in the slaughter at the abbatoir doesn't mean you are removed from the killing.

Dave