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

[dumbsparce]

1 minute ago, 50thStateofMind said:

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

It was in response to your even stupider claim that all cultures should be respected. And you did a wonderful job at "gotching" yourself with your inability to give a direct answer to a very simple question.

[Trent W]

The brainrot of some people thinking that in the name of "culture" everything should be tolerated is absolutely sick and insane

 

Cultures adapt all the time, human sacrifices were a thing in the past too

 

In some years most people will revolt to the idea of this

 

Because sacrificing living being for cUlTUrE is absolutely sick

[Into The Void]

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Participants believe that sacrificing animals in the Gadhimai temple pleases the Goddess Gadhimai, who will then grant them wishes or good fortune. Animals are also sacrificed to celebrate the birth of sons.

Well that's interesting 

[Letters From Adi]

1 hour 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 

If someone killed and ate you tomorrow, I highly doubt you'd be concerned with what happens to the remains of your body than being alive. Also, you're incorrect with the argument as the animal is roasted and eaten after the rituals. The diaspora of the Himalayan tribes (like Magar, Tamang, Limbu, etc) who do this esoteric Hindu-Buddhist ritual live in my place as well.


More animals end up being killed in the US on daily basis and they're treated far worse in the US animal industry. Unless you're vegan, this feels hypocritical to even argue about.

[tost1]

1 hour ago, Kummercell said:

Cultural practices and traditions are much more important than the lives of some goats and buffaloes

No, they are not!

[Sabrina Carpenter]

27 minutes ago, Letters From Adi said:

If someone killed and ate you tomorrow, I highly doubt you'd be concerned with what happens to the remains of your body than being alive. Also, you're incorrect with the argument as the animal is roasted and eaten after the rituals. The diaspora of the Himalayan tribes (like Magar, Tamang, Limbu, etc) who do this esoteric Hindu-Buddhist ritual live in my place as well.


More animals end up being killed in the US on daily basis and they're treated far worse in the US animal industry. Unless you're vegan, this feels hypocritical to even argue about.

Because otherwise they're killing a living being for no purpose—how does that make them any better than trophy hunters? White people could also argue that it's part of their culture.

The article did not mention whether the animals are consumed after being sacrificed, so I wouldn't know.

 

[Letters From Adi]

14 minutes ago, Sabrina Carpenter said:

Because otherwise they're killing a living being for no purpose—how does that make them any better than trophy hunters? White people could also argue that it's part of their culture.

The article did not mention whether the animals are consumed after being sacrificed, so I wouldn't know.

 

I can fully understand people opposing animals being killed out of compassion but it feels strange to argue on what happens to a lifeless corpse.

I don't care whether someone taxidermied or made burgers out if me, I want to stay alive at the end of the day. All sentient beings have the same desire to live.


There's no issue of race here, or whether you're being turned into a fur coat or a meat chip, life is precious to all (humans to birds)

 

Edited yesterday at 04:51 AM by Letters From Adi

[Bubble Tea]

3 hours ago, HASHTAGPOW said:

Basically just another normal day in our slaughter industry 

I was thinking that? Like you can't eat meat and get upset over a "sacrifice"

[JO1s]

Sorry but everyone downvoting or calling this barberic better be vegan or else you guys are massive hypocrites and racists.

[Thin White Duke]

Yeah, sorry but no

Pretty much every culture has, probably a few holidays too, that have people pitting a specific animal on the table - Christmas, midsummers and so on

Hate to break it to you, but that's basically a leftover tradition of the same thing. The only difference is that this seems to be executed in a more raw and "primitive" way and the fact that's framed as a "sacrifice". It's the same thing.

Even newer cultures like the US have Thanksgiving - slaughtering millions of turkeys and holding them in awful conditions beforehand too. 

And that's coming from a vegetarian. Let's not.

[Initials]

Happens a lot in secret societies too but of course they keep it hidden.

All of it is barbaric, the human race should do better.

I'm glad it's being exposed. 

[AlanRickman1946]

Where's that thread from oldTRL circa ~2017 about a woman buying tea from the Himalayas?  It was expensive by Nepali standards and when the tourist objected the seller yelled "you people pig you people dog"

[AlanRickman1946]

6 hours ago, Breathe On Moi said:

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

I made one about a pitbull decapitating someone and it got locked and hidden I think.

[americanshameless]

8 hours ago, l3disko said:

Some cultures and traditions don't deserve respect and shouldn't exist.

 

Killing living beings goes beyond just 'different values'.

 

Stop eating meat my white saviour 

[americanshameless]

7 hours ago, Trent W said:

The brainrot of some people thinking that in the name of "culture" everything should be tolerated is absolutely sick and insane

 

Cultures adapt all the time, human sacrifices were a thing in the past too

 

In some years most people will revolt to the idea of this

 

Because sacrificing living being for cUlTUrE is absolutely sick

At the end of the day, the meat is eaten the same way you eat your meat in the US  

 

The selective outrage here  The meat industry in the US kills more per day. The only difference here is how the animals are killed. Both are fed and consumed by humans.

 

Non-vegans fuming at this is so funny 

Edited 18 hours ago by americanshameless

[Trent W]

3 minutes ago, americanshameless said:

At the end of the day, the meat is eaten the same way you eat your meat in the US  

 

The selective outrage here  The meat industry in the US kills more per day. The only difference here is how the animals are killed. Both are fed and consumed by humans.

 

Non-vegans fuming at this is so funny 

The US is one of the most evil entities in this planet, is not even a good point of reference 

 

Both are wrong

 

But I would say making an animal suffer just for the sale of cUlTure is way way worse.

[Dolce Vita]

i know people who have a big fat turkey injected with growth hormones on their table every thanksgiving aren't taking about the mass slaughter of animals being wrong all of a sudden.

[ScorpiosGroove]

and what do you want us to do about that ? 

[americanshameless]

6 minutes ago, Trent W said:

The US is one of the most evil entities in this planet, is not even a good point of reference 

 

Both are wrong

 

But I would say making an animal suffer just for the sale of cUlTure is way way worse.

I myself don't favour it and I don't fully agree with what goes on in that part of the country

 

But I, a meat eater showing rage over how other meat eaters prepare their meat for the purpose of consumption would be pure hypocrisy 

 

Most of you don't know where your meat comes from, let alone how those animals are killed  

[glitch]

Who needs animal sacrifices when you can watch ATRL users going back and forth

 

[americanshameless]

13 minutes ago, Trent W said:

The US is one of the most evil entities in this planet, is not even a good point of reference 

And yes, precisely 

 

Those very Americans calling this bArBaRiC

 

Zero self-awareness

[ChooseyLover]

8 hours ago, Kummercell said:

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.

This is such a moronic statement. How is virtue signaling reducing as much as possible the harm we knowingly cause to animals? I don't need religious or philosophical reasons to not eat meat, although I'd argue all vegans have philosophical values. It's not just a diet, it's a way to see life. I don't feel like I need to contribute to the meat and dairy industries to feed myself, buying animal based clothing to dress myself or animal tested products for my hygiene.

Edited 17 hours ago by ChooseyLover

[ChooseyLover]

Also, I agree with everyone being disgusted at these so called "traditions". But also I definitely agree with the double standards and hypocrisy pointed out: there is no better or worse motive to kill a sentient being, at least for the animal that is being slaughtered. Think about it because it's food for thought.

[alexrex]

 

8 hours 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. 

This is why we don't deserve a place on this planet anymore. 

 

If culture means murder, then f the culture and f the tradition. 

[KillingYourCareer]

Of course it's all for some religious superstition. Pointless and stupid.