I See "Only Five" is deriding what is being said on this page here:
http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/47124-sacrifice-at-hazur-sahib-myth-truth/?
My response to what he is saying:
Jhatka
Jhatka has nothing to do with reducing cruelty, or making food OK, or pure.
Jhatka is aour martial heritage, passed down from Rajput warriors. The ability to kill something in one blow on the battle field ensures you are not killed. Practicing this on animals has a duel purpose:
1) Provides Food, or kills dangerous animals.
2) Enables warriors to hone swordsmanship.
Jhatka also is not praying over the animal. It is simply Ardas or a thanking to God, unlike Halal which is purification.
Only Fives Vegetarian Cruelty
"Only Five" has actually dug himself a hole. What he is in effect sayoing is, vegetable do not die when out of the ground, unlike the animal that is dead in ONE BLOW!
He is saying, vegetables are alive, when chopped and boild. That is indeed more cruelr than Halal.
Exactly in line with what Guru Nanak says here:
Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Maajh on Pannaa 142
First Mehla:
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! ||2||
Sacrifice To God
Guru Nanak spoke of the futility of sacrifices again and again. Be it animal carcases burnt on funeral pyres by Brahmin priests or ritual slaughter by Muslims.
Jhatka does not do that. It is just a killling method.
