news A mass animal sacrifice festival is underway in Nepal. Activists say it needs to stop

[Meev]

7 minutes ago, Sabrina Carpenter said:

at least the animals killed during Thanksgiving have the purpose of being consumed

 

this one is just killing animals for fun 

The animals are sacrificed for religious purposes and are then eaten. It is not done 'for fun'. Unless you are vegan, you don't have a position to stand on here, as it is no different from our meat industry.

[Breathe On Moi]

I miss when we used to simply fight about Pitbulls on this website, maybe I should make a thread 

[dumbsparce]

57 minutes ago, 50thStateofMind said:

I don't like the idea of animal sacrifice of ANY KIND, but who are we to impose our values on their culture?

Would you say the same if you fell into the hands of tribes that practice cannibalism?

[suburbannature]

Truly disgusting. Not everything done for the sake of culture should be respected if it's barbaric and harmful to living, sentient creatures.

[Sabrina Carpenter]

1 minute ago, Meev said:

The animals are sacrificed for religious purposes and are then eaten. It is not done 'for fun'. Unless you are vegan, you don't have a position to stand on here, as it is no different from our meat industry.

it does not say in the article that they are eaten after being sacrificed? 

[50thStateofMind]

Just now, dumbsparce said:

Would you say the same if you fell into the hands of tribes that practice cannibalism?

 and how exactly would that happen? 

 

I have never and would never plan to travel to such a place (e.g. Papua New Guinea)

[dumbsparce]

Just now, 50thStateofMind said:

 and how exactly would that happen? 

 

I have never and would never plan to travel to such a place (e.g. Papua New Guinea)

It's a yes or no question. Do you think cannibalists deserve respect?

[l3disko]

3 minutes ago, 50thStateofMind said:

 and how exactly would that happen? 

 

I have never and would never plan to travel to such a place (e.g. Papua New Guinea)

Have you never engaged in a hypothetical scenario?

[bliaz]

Demonic 

[GraceRandolph]

12 minutes ago, Kummercell said:

Cultural practices and traditions are much more important than the lives of some goats and buffaloes that were most likely eaten after being killed anyway. 

 

Also, it's buffaloes and goats. There's billions of those, it's not like they're on the verge of extinction. 

Animals lives are more important than cultural practices that get changed and updated all the time. 

[StayFrosty]

I'm not familiar with their mythology. So they have one Goddess who demands Buffalos slaughtered and another God who thinks cows are magic?

 

Anyway this is obviously barbaric and I'm glad it's being phased out as 3rd world countries are being better educated.

[flower moon]

are they eaten or just watsed?

[Kummercell]

Just now, GraceRandolph said:

Animals lives are more important than cultural practices that get changed and updated all the time. 

No, they're not. You can argue (and I'd agree with you) that stuff like whaling is definitely wrong and should be stopped. Cows, though? 

[Kylizzle]

Some cultures kill elephants and rhinos for no reason due to "health benefits." Really sad stuff and sad that people defend it. 

[uusagii]

Dirty and disgusting 

[Heirloom]

It's so funny how vegan community from the West parading third world country's people (especially Indian area including Nepal) as the bastion of vegan culture but when these traditions pops up they quickly rejects it 

[commander]

This reminds me of that barbaric event they do in Denmark where they kill hundreds of dolphins and whales just because. There's nothing cultural about the massive unaliving of animals and you could argue the same about cows and chickens for consumption and I'm not even vegan 

[Trent W]

25 minutes ago, Kummercell said:

Cultural practices and traditions are much more important than the lives of some goats and buffaloes that were most likely eaten after being killed anyway. 

 

Also, it's buffaloes and goats. There's billions of those, it's not like they're on the verge of extinction. 

Sentient beings are 1000x more important that barbaric practices that have no tangible value other than how a group of people "feels" or "believes"

 

They are actually harming someone who feels to keep their idiotic practices 

 

This is actually damaging someone.

[Trent W]

25 minutes ago, Kummercell said:

Cultural practices and traditions are much more important than the lives of some goats and buffaloes that were most likely eaten after being killed anyway. 

 

Also, it's buffaloes and goats. There's billions of those, it's not like they're on the verge of extinction. 

Sentient beings are 1000x more important that barbaric practices that have no tangible value other than how a group of people "feels" or "believes"

 

They are actually harming someone who feels to keep their idiotic practices 

 

This is actually damaging someone.

[Kummercell]

4 minutes ago, Heirloom said:

It's so funny how vegan community from the West parading third world country's people (especially Indian area including Nepal) as the bastion of vegan culture but when these traditions pops up they quickly rejects it 

veganism (the entire animal cause, really) in the western world is just virtue signaling. it has no real purpose other than being able to say "look at me, i'm a good person" online. at least vegans in India and China can claim religious and philosophical reasons to not eat meat.

[Trent W]

31 minutes ago, Meev said:

The animals are sacrificed for religious purposes and are then eaten. It is not done 'for fun'. Unless you are vegan, you don't have a position to stand on here, as it is no different from our meat industry.

I'm not defending meat consumption but you can't compare killing animals to eat them than for the sake of some stupid religion or tradition 

 

These people are killing them just because and there is no real tangible reason

[Kummercell]

6 minutes ago, Trent W said:

Sentient beings are 1000x more important that barbaric practices that have no tangible value other than how a group of people "feels" or "believes"

 

They are actually harming someone who feels to keep their idiotic practices 

 

This is actually damaging someone.

How groups of people feel and believe is extremely important to those groups of people, to claim that there's no tangible value in that is just false.

Also, calling practices from ethnical groups "barbaric", once again, is racist.

Edited yesterday at 03:02 AM by Kummercell

[Trent W]

Just now, Kummercell said:

How groups of people feel and believe is extremely important to those groups of people, to claim that there's no tangible value in that is just false.

Also, calling practices from ethnical groups "barbaric", once again, is racist.

No is not racist, is just plain stupid

 

There is no tangible or real human motive to sacrifice animals

 

Also the pain animals go through is actually real and you are making a living being suffer just for the sake of it

 

That group of people can live without these idiotic practices 

 

The animals can't.

[50thStateofMind]

33 minutes ago, dumbsparce said:

It's a yes or no question. Do you think cannibalists deserve respect?

It's a STUPID and irrelevant question. A failed "gotcha" 

[l3disko]

10 minutes ago, Kummercell said:

How groups of people feel and believe is extremely important to those groups of people, to claim that there's no tangible value in that is just false.

Also, calling practices from ethnical groups "barbaric", once again, is racist.

I guess you'd have no qualms of walking down the streets of New York and seeing people in public abusing chickens, swinging them in the air before slitting their throats in front of children in order to cleanse themselves of their wrongdoings?