and one more thing...I realize that they are going to eat the animals..but as old as this tradition is has it ever ended evil and brought prosperity???? I don't think so...

That is a lot of meat to feed a lot of people in the areas that are still poor in India despise the good economic grow that only the highest in the caste can enjoy.

Is nothing wrong with slaughtering if the meat doesn't go to waste.

As it said in the article, they aren't wasting the animals. They will be consuming them. Think of all the people that are hungry and will now have a meal!

Besides, that's nothing compared to America. They are slaughtering 200,000 animals to be eaten. America slaughters 90,000 cows everyday. I don't even have to add the number of chickens or pigs to make a comparison.

(23 million chickens a day)

[edit on 24-11-2009 by Sliick]

The number of animals that are being slaughter EVERYDAY for food is far bigger than 200.000. Sure, this sounds worse cause the animals are a religious sacrifice, but, from your source:

Many Nepalis believe that sacrifices in Gadhimai's honor will bring them prosperity. They also believe that by eating the meat, which is taken back to their villages and consumed during feasts, they will be protected from evil.

So they will eat the sacrificed animals after.

How is this different or more wrong than our western slaughterhouses?

Nothing is wasted, and it is considered a sacred ritual. They can protest, but here is the real question that they need to ask themselves, or any one who protests this ritual: Would you want someone who is not of your faith to dictate what you can and can not do for your faith, because someone may find such offensive?

I just believe it to be a very inhumane blood bath.

Well, I know its not for me to decide, but I just find it repulsive.
It's only a matter of opinion.

As long as they are eating what they kill, I have no problem. Yes, I wish that slaughtering was carried out in another fashion, but bleeding an animal is pretty natural. We eat meat, so I see no problem in this.


Now if they were simply doing it for a fashionable jacket... or to sacrifice and waste the meat ala Yaweh... I would have an issue.

Originally posted by berrygurrl
Well, I know its not for me to decide, but I just find it repulsive.
It's only a matter of opinion.

How about the tens of thousands of cows/horses butchered every day to feed the fat, over-indulging society?



Thats disgusting too, but we all eat it. (ok maybe not everyone)



[edit on 24-11-2009 by havok]

Originally posted by berrygurrl
Well, I know its not for me to decide, but I just find it repulsive.
It's only a matter of opinion.

Are you vegan? If so I can understand why you may feel this way. If you eat meat though, I would have to say that you are just a hypocrite looking for something to complain about. Every single meat eating Christian does the same thing that these people are doing when they pray before a meal. The only difference is that they let someone else do the butchering.

Bottom line is, as long as the meat is being consumed the who cares what ignorant religious reason it's for.

Originally posted by berrygurrl
Well, I know its not for me to decide, but I just find it repulsive.
It's only a matter of opinion.

Personally I'd like to see any sort of activity like this stop the world over no matter the cultural justification or practice. At this point that's probably too much to ask. And the prosperity thing...hmmm, right. Perhaps there's some reaching going on.

I agree with others that at least it's not wasted. It is also not hidden away to sanitize the image unlike what happens here. If one is going to eat meat, it is more respectable to be willing to get bloody rather than the hypocrisy of out of sight, out of mind with a big steak on the plate.