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17.
The Brave Russian Bull


        Gagik Buniatyan, a Russian author, narrates an incident in his famous book “Salted Bread” which deals with persecution of Hare Krishna devotees in Russia during pre-perestroika days.
        When Gagik Buniatyan was imprisoned in a Russian Psychiatric hospital (for the crime of believing in God), he and his friends had to deal with a crazy inmate who was a former butcher and was convicted for raping a minor. Usually in a very disturbed condition, one day the former butcher was in somewhat normal condition and narrated an amazing story from his life.
        One day while the butcher was working in a slaughterhouse, killing animals with his axe, he happened to see something very unusual which made him scared and astonished.
        As usual, they brought one huge bull to the slaughterhouse in a big truck, to be killed by him and his friends. The bull refused to come out of the truck, even after heavy beating with sticks by the butchers. This butcher felt the bull knew exactly what they were trying to do to him, and so was screaming and trying to hit them with his huge horns. They tried everything they could and bull still didn’t move an inch. Then, one of the butchers tied a chain around the bull’s neck and the other end to a post next to the entrance. Then the truck was driven forward. So the bull had no other option but to jump down from the truck. He hurt himself badly which made him even angrier.
Of course animals are sentient beings! It is only the desire to maximize profit and fill the supermarket shelves which has led to animals being kept in abysmal concentration-camp style factory farms. Here they lead a bleak short life without natural sunlight, food pumped full of growth hormones and kept in unnatural conditions. The journey to the slaughter house entails further suffering - packed onto lorries, shamelessly squashed together and often, shipped abroad for slaughter in foreign abattoirs where their short lives are ended in barbaric ways...It is human arrogance which has led us to wrongly assume that only we are capable of emotions! Animals love, feel pain, joy, depression like us. What a shame that the meat industry chooses to ignore this fact in the name of profit.
        ~Yasmin, Birmingham, UK
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        Somehow they pushed the bull inside the building and brought him to the third floor where they were supposed to give him an electric shock, kill him and cut him into many pieces. But as soon as they opened the third floor door and pushed the bull in, he started to run around. With his huge horns he was breaking all the machinery and equipments which were used for killing thousands and thousands of innocent animals. Sparks and smoke flew everywhere from the burning electric cables. The metal hooks and equipment fell on the concrete floor, making an overwhelming noise. Everyone was so scared that they locked the iron bar door and just watched the whole scene from there. The bull started to attack them through the door and was trying to smash the iron bars. He seemed ready to kill all of them right there, one by one. As blood was pouring from his horns and body, the bull was screaming from the pain and anger. He started to run around helplessly.
        For a moment, the bull stopped in front of the bars, looked straight into the eyes of the butchers, and then turned around and ran towards the window covered with steel bars, he jumped, pushing the whole window out of the wall. He then fell down from the third floor and practically speaking exploded, committing suicide right there in front of the eyes of the butchers.
        The butcher told Gagik Buniatyan that he believed that this animal had much intelligence. He remembered that when he was looking into the bull’s eyes, it seemed as it the bull was talking to him, cursing him for what he was doing to him and to the other animals. The butcher added that he could never forget the incident, the eyes and the feeling of that bull.

I am more astonished that “scientists” are surprised that animals may actually have feelings and emotions. Perhaps the blinkers are at last beginning to come off -it’s long been the human animal that is devoid of emotion.
        ~Ken, Durham

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Tit for tat. One who is going to commit violence unnecessarily, the king, government, should immediately take the sword and kill that person. That is government’s duty. Had it been Vedic culture prevailing now, all these persons who are unnecessarily killing the cows in the slaughterhouse, they would have been killed by the king.
        ~Ŝrila Prabhupada (Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 2.36-37, London, September 4, 1973)

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