Jaya lifts ban animal sacrifice

[Guest guest]

Jaya lifts ban animal sacrifice

 

CHENNAI, DHNS

 

 

In yet another election-eve gesture, the Jayalalitha government in

Tamil Nadu on Friday lifted the ban on sacrifice of animals and

birds in temples.

 

Tamil Nadu Governor P S Ramamohan Rao, on the advice of the cabinet,

promulgated an ordinance repealing a 1950 act enacted during the

Congress rule that remained in paper all these years until the

AIADMK government revoked it a few months ago and cracked down on

those sacrificing goats, buffalos and fowls in temples.

 

The practice is prevalent in village temples and is confined to the

lower castes among the Hindus. While the ban was welcomed by the

Sangh Parivar as animal or bird sacrifice is not sanctioned by the

Agamas, it led to widespread protests from other backward classes.

 

A government press note said that the chief minister decided to

repeal the act following representations from devotees that they

would invite divine retribution if they did not fulfil their vows.

The government did not want to interfere with their religious

beliefs, the press note said.

 

This is the second such gesture by Ms Jayalalitha to woo the voters

on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections. A few days ago, she extended

the scheme of free power supply to agricultural pumpsets, hitherto

confined to small and marginal farmers, to all regardless of the

extent of their land holdings.

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[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

 

whereas I do not agree with slaughtering animals for even for the purpose of a

sacrifice, I consider Jaya's lifting the ban as an act of securing religious

freedom.

 

The cruelty in sacrificing is quite INCOMPARABLE with the cruelty shown in the

"modern" western ways of slaughtering BILLIONS of animals per year just to fill

one's stomach. It is cruel, economically unsustainable, and last but not least

very unhealthy.

 

And sometimes they do not even fill their stomach: Hundreds of thousands of

animals have been just burn because of BSE sickness! Just like that. First they

feed the animals unnatural food and when they fall sick - just kill them and

burn. What a Kali Yuga in excess... And that was 10 years ago. Now they kill

chicken and throw away... Disgusting.

 

Prohibiting sacrifices was and is again a typical "smoke screen" politics of

dealing with the small for some ideological purposes and closing the eyes to the

big issues. So if prohibiting then prohibit MacDonalds and all killing of cows

and other animals for consumption. That would be balanced politics.

 

With best wishes

 

Shaas A. Ruzicka

 

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