SACRIFICES ON THE ALTAR OF SCIENCE

Human beings have sacrificed animals since ages for various reasons. They have sacrificed animals to propitiate Gods, to pacify evil spirit, to bring good luck to a venture or just as a ritual. We believe that animals do not have their own existence beyond their usefulness to us. Our behavior with animals is simply extremely selfish. We do not believe that life as such is sacred whether it is a human life or any other life.

In the struggle for existence all animals survive by defending themselves against other animals. They may need to kill them in order to eat them or protect their territory. Human beings are the only animals which kill even when they do not eat them like in a hunt.

People against religious practices that sacrifice thousands of animals in rituals apparently do not see similar irrationality when thousands of birds are asphyxiated and killed extremely cruelly by stuffing them in bags. Animals cannot be killed for religion but they can be mercilessly killed for “Scientific reasons”. The religious people at least eat the animals they kill. These scientists who have gone berserk in their “scientific wisdom” simply burn them.

Not long ago thousands of cattle were killed in Europe ostensibly to prevent foot and mouth disease. Now with the threat of bird flu thousands of birds are being sacrificed at the altar of science for an extremely doubtful method of prevention of this disease. The strongmen of science are entering poor villages and destroying their live stock with or without suspicion of bird flu.

It is not difficult to imagine people with western scientific wisdom killing hundreds of white, black, brown or yellow people with this method of preventing diseases. Rich people killing poor people because they spread disease. So called healthy people killing all the people with AIDS so that it can be prevented. Even communities where one person gets AIDS should be destroyed completely according to this wisdom.

The most surprising thing is that people working for animal rights are keeping mum about this. Not one single human being or organization has protested against this terrorism against animals. Sensible human beings must know simple facts about viral or bacterial infections.

1. Exposure to any disease producing agent does not automatically produce disease. It is as yet not known if hundred men sleep with one female having AIDS, how many actually get AIDS and die due to it.
2. We do not know whether virus is living or not. So killing a virus is a doubtful thing to start with.
3. Pettenkoffer stated that the disease producing agent, the readiness of the persons internal environment to allow it to grow and the timing of introduction of the disease producing agent are responsible for the disease to occur.
4. Thus in great epidemic not all people die some survive with their immunity enhanced because of their contact with the disease producing agent.
5. Hundreds of people live in such conditions that any person living in developed country will die simply seeing it let alone living in it. They do not die because their body interacts with all the germs and then both stay together without killing each other.

The whole idea of eliminating diseases by exterminating bacteria comes out of the notion of devil and god without realizing that black and white exist because of each other. Let’s not kill innocent animals to save another bipedal animal. This is wisdom. The scientists have gone berserk in their scientific advice to kill thousands of animals. Stop them. There must be some better way of preventing bird flu.