Did the Buddha realise how cavalierly humans would justify animal slaughter and animal sacrifice?
Norm Phelps. I think he must have. His condemnations, especially in the Mahayana scriptures, are so emphatic and categorical that they seem clearly intended to foreclose any possible excuse for eating meat or sacrificing animals. Abolitionist. You would not believe the opposition to embracing the No-Kill philosophy (esp. Nathan Winograd’s pioneering work) from Movement heads of the animal rights and welfare movements of today. These rich and unaccountably lazy groups who want all the media but no cleaning out of kennels, are destroying the fundamental premise that religion and animal rights hold sacred and that is No Kill. Please comment. Norm Phelps. I believe it because I have encountered it. First though, let me say that I am by no means prepared to dismiss the large national groups as ” rich and unaccountably lazy.” A few like American Humane the animals would be better off without. But others, like PETA, which you mention in your next question, do great amounts of good work and wi
