Why is PETA more active in killing the tradition.
By Bala
@everloving (439)
Chennai, India
January 14, 2017 8:54am CST
Its Jan 14, this marks a special day in our country. It is called Sankaranthi. This is from when the sun motion from south to north & the 6 months beginning from today will called " Uttarayanam". In southern India we call this day Pongal. There is huge rage sweeping the nation, particular in south india. PETA has come up with an unjustifying act of invoking a ban on "Jallikattu", as any one here would know that, this is what adds more life to the festival. Jallikattu is one sport which tests the bravery of men as they will be present in flocks to stop a raging bull let out free. You will have to hold on to the ox's hump at least for 10 second for claiming that you have controlled. PETA efforts are just unyielding, they would not do one good to put a stop to it. Animals are slaughtered for meat all around the world & while nothing has been done to eradicate it, why PETA thinks Jallikattu is doing more cruelty to bulls. Absurd!
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
12 Mar 17
I see your point. I am not sure why they are that way.
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@everloving (439)
• Chennai, India
16 Mar 17
We are also clueless as why such a thing is being done. The person who raises the cows knows better than anybody else to safety if the cows.
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@everloving (439)
• Chennai, India
17 Jan 17
so you are saying that killing without torturing the animals are justifiable??? 
. If torturing animals is going be such an offence, then killing animals for meat is also an offence too. For getting chicken , hens are caged & made to gain weight in a short span of time using steroids & is this an ethical treatment.This is far more cruel for pigs & cattle, they are made to stand in a place not even allowed to graze. Does it mean we will have to support another saying that it is only cruel to beat the humans but killing humans will not be as cruel as belting them down???
. If torturing animals is going be such an offence, then killing animals for meat is also an offence too. For getting chicken , hens are caged & made to gain weight in a short span of time using steroids & is this an ethical treatment.This is far more cruel for pigs & cattle, they are made to stand in a place not even allowed to graze. Does it mean we will have to support another saying that it is only cruel to beat the humans but killing humans will not be as cruel as belting them down???1 person likes this
@yugocean (9963)
• India
17 Jan 17
Jallikattu is a sport and Bulls are feed, Puja is offered. PETA did nothing to stop cow and bull slaughter. Peta activists were objecting beef ban in the name of choice of food, but they come up against Bull festival which give 100% guarantee that Bulls will never go extinct, and will always be protected.
I do not support PETA, it is a bad organisation in name of animal right.
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@everloving (439)
• Chennai, India
17 Jan 17
Thats the point I am making. Jallikattu is held only once every year. The number of cows which are slaughtered are staggering & this by no means would be justifiable.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
15 Mar 17
If all that is done is you hold the animal's hump for 10 seconds, then there is no reason for this event to be banned. However, if the animal is hurt, I wouldn't agree to it either.
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@LadyDuck (471337)
• Switzerland
8 Mar 17
@everloving And do you believe that eating only vegetables will safe the planet? We would be soon without water if everybody was doing this and the animals would be so numerous that we could not feed them. People love to talk without having a global look at the problem.
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@everloving (439)
• Chennai, India
9 Mar 17
@LadyDuck : I do not know how you are saying that growing vegetable will make our planet water scarce, every nation is taking the pledge for a greener world. Growing tress & increasing agricultural habits is definitely going to soothe the planet from the pollution.
, every nation is taking the pledge for a greener world. Growing tress & increasing agricultural habits is definitely going to soothe the planet from the pollution.2 people like this
@everloving (439)
• Chennai, India
8 Mar 17
We are only going in circles when we say that " Animals do not necessary suffer when they are killed " for food. Life is a life, as it would be for humans it would be for animals too. Would we able to justify that same when it happens to our own people, no one can say that I have killed him/ her & it would not be counted as a crime as the victim did not suffer while dying. Moreover eating we are also contributing to the global warming. We raise slogans that we are living to make mother evergreen but end up doing exactly the opposite. This is just my opinion & no offence.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
15 Mar 17
I don't have a deep knowledge about this to comment here. However, whatever things doing by human being to make their festivals colourful is not justified. There are advantages and disadvantages. I guess, Jallikkattu may be dangerous to humans than animals. Because playing with a bull is not safe at all. Another thing, we don't have a clue how the bulls are get trained for playing. If we go deep, there will be tortures in every field, where animals are used for festivals and other things. Slaughtering is also not justified either. 
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Mar 17
PETA also recently sued pig farmers for 'cruelty' because the pigs were kept in cages that severely limited their movement.
(regarding 'the date of the festival': I heard that 'the date that the sun starts moving north' was actually December 21st or 22nd, and was first 'noticable' by December 25 ... which is why Rome had the festival of Saturnalia on that day, the festival that Christians stole and renamed "Christmas"---but maybe there's a different perspective from Rome than from Chennai 
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@RasmaSandra (79714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Mar 17
I still think this sport should not be allowed it is just that those poor animals don't understand what is actually going on.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
11 Jun 17
You raise a legitimate point here. I once thought of a term used on the original television series, Star Trek, to be a directive to follow.
The notion was, that if a superior civilization had the option to go down to another planet that was more primitive than itself, would be a violation of THE NON INTERFERENCE DIRECTIVE' - and to me that is the true focus of this discussion. I think that PETA is interfering with another culture's way of living that would be considered a violation if we were living in a space age culture that traveled the stars for new life and new civilizations.
I am personally opposed to violence and abuse of animals for any reason but to be honest, if God wanted to intervene on this planet, the entire human race would be removed from the earth to preserve what is left that man has destroyed overall.
@gautaam (159)
• Mumbai, India
7 Apr 17
Its a big game. Our government should allow such organisations after accepting certain conditions of non-interference in local cultural matters.
@shaynas (5487)
• India
14 Jan 17
I agree to what you said. Though i can't say if Jallikattu is good or bad for animals, as i don't know much about it. But before objecting on this (as it does not sound like animal is hurt or killed),animal slaughters in the name of festivities should be stopped.
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