@BeatsMeWhy,
Quote:Manored wrote to Bhaktajan:
It would help if you explained to me why, exactly, eating cows prevents world peace. What there is to eating cows that does so.
I will respond in a brief manner at this time.
Usually, I feel compelled to cite references [and/or quote references] which make for bulky posts.
So I will make some quick personal, off-the-top-of-my-head statements regarding how "eating cows prevents world peace".
First, I'd like to quote a quintessential modern intellectual who explored the human condition to great acclaim, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950):
Living Graves
By George Bernard Shaw
We are the living graves of murdered beasts,
Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
We never pause to wonder at our feasts,
If animals, like men, can possibly have rights.
We pray on Sundays that we may have light,
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread.
We're sick of War, we do not want to fight -
The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,
And yet - we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Like carrion crows, we live and feed on meat,
Regardless of the suffering and pain
We cause by doing so, if thus we treat
Defenseless animals for sport or gain,
How can we hope in this world to attain
The PEACE we say we are so anxious for.
We pray for it, o'er hecatombs of slain,
To God, while outraging the moral law.
Thus cruelty begets its offspring - WAR
---------- Post added 10-26-2009 at 04:56 PM ----------
A Cow is the mother of human society!
This may be more obvious to Indian Hindus, but, certainly the milk industry in the west does not quote Hindu Philosophy when child rearing is the topic.
Milk comes from "****" [The word T-I-T-S has been converted into Asterisks by the computer Forum System]. **** [The word T-I-T-S] are female. [Breast Milk & White Breast Meat are conflated to refer to means of Sense-Gratification rather than Human Society's basis for existence]. We meet them in infancy --they are attached to
our mother(s).
So, after societys' cows run drive ---WHAT TO DO? Eat her flesh.
The ramification of the extreme level of de-sensitisation & dullard indifference leads to abuse of all weaker creatures to serve our goal of "SENSE-GRATIFICATION".
So, while not at war, society seeks Human Rights for all, usually after generations of subjugation by older-savvier overlords.
The Law of "What goes around comes around" is an impersonal/rude/indeferent rod-of-chasticement that always tries to start with a clean slate via sweeping changes of epic proportions.
The cow is considered mother ---and so, flesh eaters of her are acting bestial --thus the law of the jungle is in full effect as the status quo.
In the
Charles Dickens' 19th Century English novel "Oliver Twist" [about the orphan boy named Oliver] --We see at the start how the Schoolmaster of the orphan-asylum is arriving at the home of the new foster parents, inorder to the retrieve Oliver whose tantrums had made trouble for himself and his newest adopting parents. Upon arriving at the home, the Schoolmaster unlocked the closet whence the boy was arrested by the parent. As he drags the boy back to the orphanage the Schoolmaster scolded the parents thus, "I told you not to feed the boy meat, I told you to feed him porridge".
---------- Post added 10-26-2009 at 05:09 PM ----------
"Be like your Father in Heaven"
If there is a heaven, and there is a God up there ---Do we really think that God would serve lunch consisting of furry scampering creatures from his garden stock?
Irony: "The cops treated us like animals" This does not refer to the barbeque meat at the Firemans' picnic.
The concept of how "eating cows prevents world peace" ---is rooted in the deepest, densest, most opague Irony.
Meat eaters are seeking substenance from sub-humans. Theives, robbers, white-collar criminals & dictators seek substenance from Alpha-Persons' pound-of-flesh.
The Human Souls seek enjoyment ---most times without consideration of future ramifications.
---------- Post added 10-26-2009 at 05:14 PM ----------
I do have other data to draw upon to address this issue of, "eating cows prevents world peace". I will post them soon.
I do look forward to tackling any contra-opinions on this topic. It is very pressing ---since butchers are a dime-a-dozen where factory farming & rendering plants are also hiring undocumented immigrants eager to add their two-pence to the stew.