Its not being secular or religous that gets up my nose but that every group that has pretensions to some sort of minority status,whether ethnic ,sexual,sexual orientation ,religion or supposedly having one of the many blossoming pseudo psychological conditions, routinely trys it on ,usually quite cynically, just to see what they can get out of the system at the expense ironically of all the other so called minorities plus the poor sods who dont qualify for that sort of status but usually end up paying for it.
Though to be fair judging by the excited little smiles of some of the "protestors"it was more about getting their faces on T.V. and having a thrilling anecdote to boast of to friends and family afterwards but of course Icould be entirely wrong about their motivation.
And on the matter of animal suffering are cattle infected with T.B. feeling quite comfortable or do they feel like shit?
I honestly dont know myself, but going on the effect it had on my dad it wasnt a particulary pleasant experience being as it killed him.
I don’t know how difficult it is to isolate Tuberculosis, particularly when it is in contact with other animals, such as the human caretakers. I also don’t know whether these monks have the appropriate ability it takes to quarantine such an infectious disease.
No, but at least for some diseases (not sure about tuberculosis), treatment and cure is possible.
Actually, unless you’re talking specifically about TB, you’re not quite correct - there are some diseases for which vaccines can be administered after infection has occurred or is suspected (Rabies for one).
There was also the issue, that I haven’t seen mentioned yet- that the positive test is by no means a garuntee that the animal has TB, the test has a high rate of false positives.- but apparently its been confirmed post mortem so that doesn’t matter.
And by the by did nobody else find it odd that there were so many White Hindu’s there? I never would of thought it.
Tetanus is another one - I think it’s mostly because the diseases take time to spread through your body, so there’s enough of you left unaffected to manufacture antibodies in response to the vaccine, while the real disease is still getting going elsewhere.
Well now. I can’t find any evidence with Google that Brucellosis is a form of TB, but I can tell you this much: brucellosis is a horrible, horrible disease to get started in herds of domestic or wild cloven-footed animals (ie deer, elk, bison, cattle, not sure about sheep):
Brucellosis causes these animals to spontaneously abort their pregnancies. Over and over and over.
Now tell me how many cattle-farmers can stay in business if this happens? What happens to local populations of wild bison, deer and elk?
With that said:
While bovine tuberculosis appears, on the whole, generally to make the animals lose condition slowly over time, and not all infected animals appear to be contagious to people, still…having people contract it seems like a bad idea. And those people were around that bull, and no doubt went to handle the other animals on the property.
I am sorry the animal had to be killed. But I’m sure a great many biting dogs have been the beloved pets of their families…and they still get destroyed. Does it matter if a family of 5 loves the animal, or if a group of 200 loves the animal? What do emotions have to do with the making of a good law? Good laws are geared to the good of the greater population, not because of what a small group here or there may feel. I’m sure this group can get another bull and worship him as a symbol, the same as a family can get a new puppy and adore it.
TB is spread via air-borne transmission. How do you propose to make sure that the exhaled breath of this infected bull doesn’t escape into neighboring pastures?
It can also be carried on the clothes of people in contact with the infected bull, who then go out into open air near a neighboring pasture, or get on a bus next to other farmers, whose animals then get infected.
I have discussed with our Veterinarian the extreme efforts he has to take when dealing with certain equine diseases, to avoid spreading it to other stables.
You are quite wrong to think that an effective isolation program can be done “without much difficulty”.
If the goal is purely to keep the beast alive, without much regard to its quality of life, how about keeping it in a massive, sealed, greenhouse with tonnes of plant matter?
If Shambo is a god then hes still alive ,gods are immortal as far as I know and most certainly have the power to stop a bunch of officials from commanding their destiny against their wishes…
And if hes not a god then it must have been Krishna or Siva or whoever saying that it was time for the wheel of spacetime to turn.