Friday, June 20, 2008

Cruelty to Animals - Some Heights

In Indian epics/puranas/age old stories we can find two types of people (well , not talking about humans). The Devas and the Asuras/Rakshasas .

The Devas are those with good qualities and Asuras or Rakshasas are with demonic qualities. Are they just stories? Nope… those epics and scriptures goes very deep….they are psychological….they are symbolic…..and they are not outdated.

Just open up the eyes and look around.... Can we see some good things happening around? Cant we see some good natured people behind it? And what about bad things? So, these people are still there, even now. Those Asuras are sort of predators. They even eat fresh meat and drink blood. Is that an old story? They are very cruel and they dare kill very brutally.

The other day one elephant got killed in India. How? They poured petrol and burnt it alive. The poor animal ran for water and they threw fire crackers at him. May be this is one example of the height of cruelty to animals by humans.

The reason behind the killing is that the elephant killed some humans and the authorities did not hear the complaints from the locals. And the funny thing is the forest department says they did not hear any such thing.


But why did the elephant came out of the forest? Its coz of we the humans encroaching their forest and destroying the food and water of those poor things. Animals wont do farming. Its not there in their nature and God has provided enough for humans and animals too. If humans steal what belong to the animals, where should these animals go? And I wonder why it is needed to eat a tiger? a Crocodile? Didn’t He provide enough for the humans? Do we need to kill birds and animals brutally to enhance taste?

Whatever be it, those people who did that brutal/barbaric and shameful act should be punished. Cruelty to animals should be given high priority and special courts should be opened to make faster trials..

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