We Vegeterian People

Author(s): Atul Doshi
Publisher: Atul Doshi

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3. Use of milk and Ghee in religious rituals... does God like it?
• Animal sacrifice rituals in religious functionYears ago, in many places, animal sacrificing was prevalent in 'yagna-puja'-ritual for sacrifice, a part of the religious activities.
Even today, we are doing the same thing by using milk and sweets made from milk for Prasad/food at religious places. We are indirectly sacrificing lives of animals by using their milk.
• We use milk and ghee in various religious rituals-is it pure and pious?
Milk available today contains pus, antibiotics, and growth hormones. This milk cannot be considered a pure substance to be offered to God. We should use vegetable fat in our 'divas' or lights and soya milk in our religious rites.
Do we really think God will be
happy to accept milk, ghee, and C +
sweets, which give pain to animals? We need to re-evaluate our old customs and traditions in a changing world of dairy horror.
We need to make our holy places and religious rituals cruelty free
. Why do we put a 'religious
label' on all activities? In India, we made 'vegetarianism
a religious subject and thereby isolated other sections of society from animal compassion. We ignored the greatest 'human' religion and this has affected interests of animals.
Food for Life programme- by Hare Krishna (www.ffl.org) - The project started in 1974 and serve vegan food in over 60 countries. Volunteers serve more than 30,00,000 free plant-based meals daily from free food restaurants, mobile kitchens, to schools and to disaster areas. Food for Life is the largest food relief of its kind in the world, eclipsing even the United Nations World Food Programme. Isn't this a true 'humanity' religion ?
In the enitre world--in last so many centuries... No 'religious leader' did what Gandhiji could do to spread ahimsa concept. Frankly.. you need 'humanity'.. supreme religion...to support animal compassion.
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