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Good lord. I vote for removing the graphic pictures and leaving the cartoons which make the point.
It often takes graphic pictures to change people. Some cultures kill dogs and use them for entertainment as they breed them to fight each other. Some people believe dogs r cute so it should b unlawful to kill them; others would have a pig or a deer as a pet. I have seen people who have different animals as pets and would not think of eating them.
Often Americans belittle the people of India for worshiping cows. Yet really it is a way of justifying their own horror in killing them. Indian people have respect for the cow because it provides so much food and fulfills so many needs without killing it.
Anyone who has been at a pig roast will see the same graphic reality. There r people who have watched humans get killed for entertainment it is just a matter of sensitivity and where u draw the line. We must recognize that at one time it was very unpopular to question the entertainment of the day when most people went to coliseums and watched Christians being torn apart by lions. Today it is unpopular to question the cruelty towards animals. It is all a matter of conditioning and what a culture accepts. Our culture is also very sick. It will take history to prove it. When we our born within a certain culture we begin to consider its sickness as normal. Although being normal will some day be considered quite sick. But those with a more spiritual approach and a sensitive approach to life see beyond the cultural trappings of the day. They find it more important to speak their truth even when they recognize that for instance: the viewing at a forum like this is cut in half when such topics r discussed in detail.
Paramahansa Yogananda had pet deer in India and the United States. i am sure he never thought about venison and interestingly enough people say we r eating venison tonite and beef tonite instead of saying deer or cow. Dog meat is called fragrant meat or mutton of the earth....as if to somehow take the horror out of it. Ramana Maharshi also had animals that he held to b very spiritual. Maybe u know more about the stories surrounding him Brock.
