[Buddha-l] Buddhas Meditation

[JKirkpatrick]

Speaking of unusual haunts, the description from the link reminds
me of when I was in Panjab for field work (1965-66), and saw a
Sikh villager slaughtering a chicken according to Sikh slaughter
laws (yes, they have such ritual rules too, although I don't know
if they are so fixated on them when living in western cities as
the Muslims and orthodox Jews seem to be).  His knife was too
dull, so he kept sawing back and forth as the chicken struggled.
It was horrible and I ran away. This was also a purloined
chicken, stolen by said villager from the untouchables in his
village, who raised chickens to amplify their meager resources.
The Jats (village elite) would not sink so low as to raise
chickens for their table.  
My second encounter out of my usual haunts was when I was in
Dhaka, Bangladesh, doing fieldwork during one of many visits, in
1985. I was staying in a room with loo of an NGO guesthouse,
courtesy of a colleague whose husband worked for this NGO, and
the room hadn't been scheduled for a visiting overseas guest. I
was on the 2d story. Below me under my single window was the
house of the former Chief of Police of Calcutta, who had retired
to Dhaka. Every single morning I was treated to the screams of
half a dozen  chickens that were being slaughtered halal, for the
daily food supply of his household. Somehow I found another place
to stay--it was just too much.  I wondered how anyone could get
used to it.

Full disclosure: I am a carnivore. But when in South or SE Asia,
I become a veggie. (I wasn't solo that time in Panjab--his
lordship had been complaining about nothing but daal-bhaat or
sabzi, and needed to eat meat. Thus, the villager and the chicken
slaughter.)

Joanna



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As for the original inquiry, Joanna, ones see the wisdom of The
Four Noble Truths every time a committed vegan (or carnivore)
dines outside of their usual haunts <g>.

AND:
Something, I posted elsewhere some days ago, which is
informative, multi-dimensional reporting -- that is, though
concise not an overly simple sound-bite. 

Dutch MPs vote to ban religious slaughter Date:Today 01:36

Bill would outlaw halal and kosher meat, as religious leaders say
their communities are frightened for their future.

...

"They (livestock) stay conscious for up to 5 minutes. They lose a
lot of blood and they can choke on their own blood and the cut
should be one time, but research shows that with kosher slaughter
(they are cut) on average 3.5 times, and with halal 5.5 times,"
Karen Soeters of the Party for Animals told Al Jazeera.

...

http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2011/06/201162945027320
392.html

Richard Basham

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