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Hinduism: Dialogue with Ethics

Hindu Views on Animal Life and Death

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Overview

Hindu responses to the prescribed issues of animal life and death, including intensive dairy farming and ahimsa milk, animal experiments and cloning, hunting and blood sports with the Bishnoi and jallikattu, and organ transplants.

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What is ahimsa milk?

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What is a gaushala?

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Why might Hindus object to cloning animals?

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  1. 1

    Why do many Hindus argue that intensive dairy farming breaks ahimsa?

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    Cows are kept in cramped conditions, repeatedly inseminated, separated from their calves soon after birth and slaughtered when their milk declines, which contradicts the tradition of honouring the cow.

  2. 2

    What is ahimsa milk?

    Model answer

    Milk from farms where no cow, bull or calf is ever slaughtered, inspired by the herd at the ISKCON temple Bhaktivedanta Manor in Hertfordshire.

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    What is a gaushala?

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    A shelter where cows, including those too old to give milk, are cared for until they die naturally rather than being sent for slaughter.

  4. 4

    What did Gandhi say about vivisection?

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    He called experimenting on live animals the blackest of crimes against God and his creation, and said life should be refused if its price was the torture of sentient beings.

  5. 5

    How do Hindus differ over animal experiments for medicine?

    Model answer

    Some reject all such experiments as a breach of ahimsa, while others accept testing that saves human lives as the lesser harm, provided no alternative exists and suffering is kept to a minimum.

  6. 6

    How has India applied ahimsa to the testing of cosmetics?

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    India banned testing cosmetics on animals in 2013 and the import of animal-tested cosmetics in 2014, a step campaigners presented as fitting for the land of ahimsa.

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