pfrancke wrote:
and in general I think about a lobster being thrown into the boiling waters... My feelings in general (not that they matter) are - as a (particularly primitive) hunter, fisherman, etc, I can earn my food. But the industrialized world where masses of things are worked has left a sense of sourness and loss about it all. Meat tastes good, but my mind rebels.
The Indians, in general, are pretty kind to animals. Stray dogs are everywhere in the cities, towns and villages, seldom are stray dogs not in view. I had expected them to receive quite a lot of abuse from people, but the Indians are very tolerant of them. The worst I saw was dogs being shooed off. People often throw the scraps of food and in some places the dogs will gather at certain times knowing that they are going to be given food. I had expected, before I went to India, that the dogs would be aggressive and need to be given a wide berth. The opposite was true, they were non-aggressive, and kept themselves to themselves.
The was a case recently where students, as a "prank" threw a puppy from a roof... it caused outrage.