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India Protests American Cattle Slaughter

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Those of you who have been following news about the whaling issue might be interested in the following:

NEW DEHLI, India – Recent publication of graphic images of cows at an American slaughterhouse released by the Indian Cultural Affairs Office on Thursday mean a stronger legal case against cattle consumption, the Indian government says. Indian government officials have been monitoring American slaughterhouse activity and the nation is still considering what kind of legal action is available, should be taken, and which institutions and individuals should be targeted.

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27 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - February 19, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Categories: News Satire Tags: animals, cows, culture, food, hinduism, imperial, india, japan, whales, whaling

The Overthinker

The trouble is that the US didn’t sign the International Convention on Cowing. Or anything else, for that matter.

Kevin

So if Japan removes itself from the IWC it will be ok to whale? That would at least put this pointless debate to a rest.

The Overthinker

In a word, yes. That is, they wouldn’t have to come up with this “scientific” excuse for it. I think that’s what really seems to annoy people – not that it’s happening as such, but that the excuse seems so flimsy. Legally, certainly, they could do what they liked.

Gabriel

The Overthinker: Hardly. There are people like me – and more importantly, the individuals that make up Sea Shepherd – that oppose the killing killing for any reason. And Japan’s quitting the IWC and using excuses or not will not change a thing until the whaling stops.
kaito

I doubt that. They have their emotional feelings for animals. Some disagree with killing all animals, some discriminate against the ones that they don’t mind killing and eating.

But….you can’t please everybody.
Kevin

Gabriel, why are you so concerned with animals when there are hundreds of thousands of people being killed by war and starvation JUST in Darfur. You’ll never have my sympathy for the treatment of animals when humans are suffering to this degree around the world – and in much greater numbers.
Take your protests to the places that could actually use the help.
The Overthinker

Yeah, there are always exceptions. But the tone of reporting in the media re Japan, and many comments on blogs such as this, are full of stuff like “how dare they say it is for ‘scientific purposes’!”. It’s hardly “hardly” just because you happen to disagree.

Jarvik7

Even if they did sign the International Convention on Cowing, the US has a record of ignoring treaty/agreement that it signs whenever it is in its own best interests (softwood, Canadian beef, etc etc). You can bet they would continue killing cows for scientific reasons.

I hope some anti-cowing activists make a cowing shmup!

http://www.hormel.com VonSkippy

People, the US would never callously kill innocent dumb bovines.

They only help a select few move to a different plan of existence in order to SCIENTIFICALLY study how life transitions to another state of being.

It’s all very science-y and down right spiritual when you take the time to examine it closely.

The fact that they then use the left over and soulless meat in all manners of tasty food recipes just shows how caring and well thought out this EXPERIMENT is.

Kevin

Mmmmm… exxppperriimmennntt.

http://www.hormel.com VonSkippy

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, the ranchers – er, I mean RESEARCHERS are very very very careful to breed replacement’s so that their experiments don’t drive the cattle into extinction. Sadly, other researchers in other fields of “study” just take take take, and do nothing to replace their subjects.

Senn

ROTFL

http://www.victorymanual.com Alex

Greenpeace is going to start illegally boarding farms.
Dakk

B-B-BUT, this doesn’t suit my rhetoric or propaganda! Clearly India is out of line.
madne0

Hey India, how about you just let us eat our tasty cows in peace? Don’t try to push your religious beliefs on us.

PS: I couldn’t care less about Japanese whaling.
http://thewilliamg.blogspot.com William G

Meanwhile, the Gitmo prisoners are still enjoying a vacation from the world…
http://www.what-what.com Danno

FWIW that image has nothing to do with the United States – it’s from a film for which the international title is “Our Daily Bread”. It’s an incredible film, documenting in long takes with just ambient sound (no music, narration or dialogue) the entire food production process in Europe, where it was filmed. Of course, we extrapolate that it’s a pretty good picture of how food is processed all over the world.

While it will certainly make your stomach turn, I found the mechanization and simply the massive scale (think: greenhouses that extend to the horizon, hundreds of thousands of chickens in a hatchery, etc etc) of modern industrial agriculture fascinating and mesmerizing. Then when they “stun” the cows (see above) I vomited.
annie

Or we all going to be vegetarians? What’s next? Protests against chickens?
kano

next protest will be against chickens and fish. LOL

pretty much America is getting a taste of their own medicine, for protesting against whaling and dog consuming in Asia.

dai

That’s so ignorant. Practically the entire world is against whaling and it isn’t America whose leading the charge. A taste of their own medicine? Like anyone cares what India has to say about the American beef industry

majiimeaussie

“Practically the entire world is against whaling..” Is this why out of 160 or so countries in the world, I think it was 14 who protested to Japan?

404error

the cow there is saying: “yo wassup? wanna join the party, its kinda boring alone”

xDDDD
morningstar

I saw that on the news and that was very discussting. I am thing of becoming a vegetarian.

nalala

either way they are going to die anyway. Get used to it.
http://bonesworld-gooch.blogspot.com/ Bonesdog

Phylumist! What, you think plants don’t die so you can eat them? You think plants don’t feel stress? You think plants don’t have the ability to communicate that stress to surrounding plants, thereby causing them stress? Or how about all the bugs that are slaughtered en masse and left unused to ensure that you get healthy plants to eat?

(above was tongue in cheek)

But seriously, if people want to be vegetarians that’s fine, just don’t pretend that it is somehow “more humane”. Fact of life: in order for us to live, we have to eat. Eating means something died. In the grand scheme of things, does it matter at all whether that something has legs or not?

The Overthinker

In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter if we don’t eat either.
Hey, we could all become Breatharians….
(Look ‘em up – these people are seriously kooky, to the point of insanity….)

Kevin

Well, when the Triffids come, we’re all screwed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids

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