Theos-Talk Archives (December 2011 Message tt00007)

Thanks for you comments.

The basic issue is very simple. Do I want to participate in any cruelty?
Definitely not.

Most people do not think in these terms. Many try to use various reasons to
justify cruelty. In the West, slowly, vegetarianism is spreading mostly on
the basis of ethical reasons.

Changes are coming, even though slowly.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jayananda Hiranandani <
professorjaya@XRkoIYXV-zB5n5Y_v6dMy84DapMZVdH_rtmNMXjQBjhbL6COcyLPIScSluRpTAwVZ_RGdytuFXn_kBRl_riolg.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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> Dear MKR and others:
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> Many thanks for this item. It is good that you brought it to the notice of
> this forum. I wish to supplement it as follows.
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> This is a good first step. I would like to know what about educational
> institutions outside India, especially in the West.
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> I myself did not want to study biological sciences and related fields due
> to vivisection.
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> There are many other fields in which this reform is long overdue. Take the
> pharmaceutical industry. Animals used in religious sacrifices. performing
> animals, research institutions in biological sciences are more examples. I
> wish to see the abolition of slaughter houses. Old animals should be cared
> for like elderly people  and should die a natural death. I may be
> considered an extremist by some. In " The Light of Asia", it is described
> how Lord Buddha preached and the animal sacrifices were banned by the King.
> Nanda Lal Bose, the well-known painter of Shantiniketan, has made a picture
> of this. Also how Lord Buddha treated a bird shot by Devadutta is another
> interesting and touching story.
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> Some of  the readers may have know the late Dr. Jean Raymond. I wish that
> I had known here more. In one of the conversations we had in Adyar, a cat
> came to her. I asked her that did the cat belong to her. She said, and this
> has made me revere her, "animals do not belong to us, but we belong to the
> animals for the love and trust they put in us."
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> Jayananda H. Hiranandani
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> --- On Wed, 11/30/11, MKR <mkr777@42sDXXvXBVfYsVE9TfDPKREALNHhaeNhfm45v0OVmoi6JQ54uFDXsacvLfM-Ks69WEGghPv382I.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> From: MKR <mkr777@42sDXXvXBVfYsVE9TfDPKREALNHhaeNhfm45v0OVmoi6JQ54uFDXsacvLfM-Ks69WEGghPv382I.yahoo.invalid>
> Subject: theos-talk Universities in India to phase out animal dissection
> for experiments in colleges
> To: "theos-talk" <Theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 5:53 AM
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> Universities in India to phase out animal dissection for experiments in
> colleges
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> It is a welcome news for many theosophists who are against animal
> dissection and vivisection that a policy decision has been taken in India
> to phase out animal dissection. Here is the full article:
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> <http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article2661412.ece>
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> Thanks for two theosophists who brought this to our attention.
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> MKR
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