When I talk to others about why I made this decision I began to realize that it is almost impossible to get most people to just open their minds and hearts to the issue of animals abuse,of how animals fit in to this world and how we must rethink our responsibilities to them and really think in deeper way about it.
I have been rather sad about it and have to tell myslef, that the only control I have is that over my own actions. I wish for a miracle that makes people see animals in a new light, one that does not consider them object to use for various purposes, many include killing. I wish for a miracle that will make people realize that indeed one can live without consuming animal products, that furthermore one can live "better" without consuming animal products. A knowledge that is very liberating, to know that i must not shed blood in order to survive, at least not in this day and age of plenty!
I wish for a miracle to have the big light bulb come on in everyone heads and hearts. Just as it came on in my head and heart. A revelation of truth that goes beyond the common knowledge.
I wish for this miracle. My heart is heavy. I wish for it not just for the animals and myslef but for those that are still partaking in one way or another in the brutishness of humanity, the enslavement of the weak.system of specicism.
So today there is more news about how we humans use animals for our various purposes, this time the story comes from Nepal and Animals sacrifice to Gods that may or may not exit,may or may not condone such sacrifice. But it doesn't matter, it's excused as a tradition! What a horrific tradition so senseless, so useless.
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November 3, 2009
Animal activists outraged by Nepal’s plans for mass animal sacrifice
Plans to sacrifice more than 500,000 animals during a two-day religious festival in Nepal this month have met with the wrath of animal rights activists, who have called for the 300-year-old ritual to be banned.
Every five years the tiny village of Bariyapur near Nepal’s southern border with India is swamped with blood as hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees flock to the local temple to take part in what is thought to be the world’s biggest ritual slaughter.
This year it is expected that about 500,000 animals, including about 25,000 buffaloes, will be offered to Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess, by devotees who hope she will answer their prayers in return. Proceedings begin with the sacrifice of two wild rats, a cockerel, a pig, a goat and a lamb.
Supporters of the Gadhimai Fair say there is no question of them departing from a centuries-old tradition. Devotees can then bring their animals into the temple for ritual purification before taking them into the grounds where the beasts’ throats are slit. CONTINUE
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