[Buddha-l] Buddhist stupa to be moved from NM Petroglyph Park

[Jo]

More clarity on the disappearing vulture corpse eaters that relates to the Buddhist value of ahimsa. The painkiller drug is also named here. I hadn't been aware of this cow retirement community angle:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/220637/endangered_vultures_highlight_parsi_culture_clash/ 

.........But after playing its ritual role for centuries, South Asia’s vulture population has plunged because of a certain painkiller used on the cattle they eat. India moved to ban the drug, diclofenac, for animals this year.
 
Nick Lindsay, head of the arm of the Zoological Society of London that runs a vulture conservation center in northern India, notes the diclofenac problem is unique to the region because it is home to tens of millions of cows living full lives and thus requiring treatment in their old age.
 
"That’s because of their sacred status. So you’ve got a whole load of cattle and therefore many more carcasses than if the cattle had been used for purely commercial farming," he said. .................
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And that raises the troubling social question, ¨What on earth does one do with a dead Parsi?¨

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Richard Hayes