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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shaheediyan" data-source="post: 56433" data-attributes="member: 2867">I agree with all you have said brother. I have studied Native Ameircan history many years ago, Temcumseh being one of my favourite personalities, so got a grounding on how varied natives environment, diet, cultures and even languages used to be (most of which a lost today). However, the Bison herds had evolved to live in perfect harmony with the plains, with the Natives replacing the original carnivores who used to control the Bison population. My point was specifically refering to the decimation of raniforests, particlary the greatest, the Amazon Basin, which has mostly been cut down to feed Americas craving for beef, and destroyes the fragile soil which the tress hold together, and which is washed away once the soil is no longer afforded protection.... But I think we are pretty much singing off the same hymn sheet! I would like to end quoting from Randip Singhs article on the point that if you are going to eat meat, then ensure it's Jhatka, and the only way of ensuring that is doing Jhatka yourself or witnessing it.   Unfortunately, I see this point "always" conveniently being overlooked by meat eating Sikhs and most Muslims today, otherwise, there meat, would not be the staple/daily diet for anyone... >WHY JHATKA MEAT?>>What is Jhatka Meat and Why?>>Jhatka meat is meat in which the animal has been killed quickly without>suffering or religious ritual.>>We must give the rationale behind prescribing jhatka meat as the approved>food for the Sikhs. According to the ancient Aryan Hindu tradition, only>such meat as is obtained from an animal which is killed with one stroke of>the weapon causing instantaneous death is fit for human consumption.>However, with the coming of Islam into India and the Muslim political>hegemony, it became a state policy not to permit slaughter of animals for>food, in any other manner, except as laid down in the Quran - the kosher>meat prepared by slowly severing the main blood artery of the throat of the>animal while reciting verses from the Quran. It is done to make slaughter a>sacrifice to God and to expiate the sins of the slaughter. Guru Gobind >Singh>took a rather serious view of this aspect of the whole matter. He,>therefore, while permitting flesh to be taken as food repudiated the whole>theory of this expiatory sacrifice and the right of ruling Muslims to >impose>iton the non-Muslims. Accordingly, he made jhatka meat obligatory for those>Sikhs who may be interested in taking meat as a part of their food.>Sikhism, A Complete Introduction, Dr. H.S.Singha & Satwant Kaur, Hemkunt>Press Nice talking to you.</blockquote>

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