Since I feel and strong hunch that I was living in India in recent incarnation and was bit by a cobra 🐍 and died at an early age, I also wonder about the karmic debt people accumulate from being cruel to animals. This incarnation so far, I’ve witnessed a tremendous urge for animals to get near me. Having witnessed people that have dormant anger in them being attacked by animals I am increasingly interested in the apparent instinct or intuition of animals and other creatures.
I agree that animals should always be respected. What are your thoughts about the vegans insisting that keeping cows for milk equals torturing them?
My thought is that extremely intense farming of cows is not a good thing, but the Dharma of cows is being milked. The real dark side of it is the killing of calves, which is practiced in industrial milk production.
I would ask a vegan why they felt that way. We can be kind to chickens or cows and have them as pets. They seek the company of us and we seek their company. We can feed them as they can feed us. It is mutual reciprocity. They don’t kill us so why should we kill them?
