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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Randip Singh" data-source="post: 56440" data-attributes="member: 1323">True. The same could be said of the Egyptians that cleared vast swathes of land to farm wheat on destroying natural environments and evetually creating desert.  Its not only for beef but for other things too: <a href="http://www.savetherainforest.org/savetherainforest_006.htm" target="_blank">Rainforest Destruction</a>  True.  Interestingly you point to Jhatka. Jhatka actually means "one blow". This blow can be delivered with a sword, a gun , a bolt.....or whatever modern means are to be used. To impose a rule that a Sikh who eats meat must kill the animal himself should mean that the vegetarian should also gather and cut there food for their table themselves too. They should plough the field, grow it, cultivate it, cut it down a process it. It don't think either is practical. The assertion that somehow one rule should apply to the meat eater is an argument which I see time and again, and a hypocrital one at best. Having witnessed ( and done) Jhatka myself it is very quick and fast. Most meat eaters when buying the meat do witness at least the carving up of the animal at the butchers. Many who go organic nowadays select the animal. Also note the distress to plants Guruji describes in Bani: Page 143 of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji mehlaa 1.vaykh je mithaa kati-aa kat kut baDhaa paa-ay.khundhaa andar rakh kai dayn so mal sajaa-ay.ras kas tatar paa-ee-ai tapai tai villaa-ay.bhee so fog samaalee-ai dichai ag jaalaa-ay.naanak mithai patree-ai vaykhhu lokaa aa-ay.First Mehl:Look, and see how the sugar-cane is cut down. After cutting away its branches, its feet are bound together into bundles,and then, it is placed between the wooden rollers and crushed.What punishment is inflicted upon it! Its juice is extracted and placed in the cauldron; as it is heated, it groans and cries out.And then, the crushed cane is collected and burnt in the fire below.Nanak: come, people, and see how the sweet sugar-cane is treated!Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji  Although clearly a metaphor this shows how the Guru's saw life in everything.....something that is convieniently forgotten by many.</blockquote>

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