Some Ethical Considerations

1. Slaughtering animals causes extreme suffering. Animals are sentient creatures with feelings like humans. Cows especially can sense that they are going to be slaughtered, and they live in constant fear.

2. We have no right to artificially end the life of any creature, especially that of a cow, who nurses her own offspring and the whole human society with her milk.

3. Killing animals breeds insensitivity toward all beings, sadism and general irreverence. Pythagoras taught, "Those who kill animals for food will be more prone than vegetarians to torture and kill their fellow men."

The strict law of karma deals measure for measure with anyone who violates the laws of nature. As long as the people of the world continue to murder and eat their two most benign friends, the cow and bull, they will perpetually suffer the sinful reactions of criminal violence and catastrophic wars.

References:

1. The Case for Vegetarianism, Geoffrey L. Rudd

2. Man's Place in Nature, T.H. Huxley

3. H.M.S.O. Manual of Nutrition (British Gov't.)

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