New Rules Against Animal Cruelty Raise the Stake for India's Beef Wars

Re:New Rules Against Animal Cruelty Raise the Stake for Indi... by weeksie on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:03PM (#14673594)

I find it laughable that rules against animal slaughter in India are being made based on cruelty. This is in a country where cows (though supposedly holy) are treated horribly. Cows in every part of that country can be found:

* Grazing on garbage heaps

* Tied up on short ropes through their noses on hot days

* Malnourished, covered in sores

* Deformed

* Dripping snot

And so on.

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Re:New Rules Against Animal Cruelty Raise the Stake for Indi... by naravara on Friday June 30, 2017 @11:13PM (#14675149)

India has plenty of human beings who live like that. It doesn't mean they shouldn't be legally recognized as being entitled to decent treatment though.

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Re:New Rules Against Animal Cruelty Raise the Stake for Indi... by weeksie on Saturday July 01, 2017 @10:41AM (#14677291)

Sure! But if you're going to make animal cruelty laws, at least make it illegal to be cruel to animals. I'd rather be butchered and eaten than spend my entire life in the hot sun, tied to a post through my nose, eating garbage.

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Re:New Rules Against Animal Cruelty Raise the Stake for Indi... by justlearning123 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:46AM (#14675760)

All of which arise from poverty, the same reason affecting humans as well.

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