Animal Cruelty in Everyday Life || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Do Vegan Athletes Really Avoid Animal Cruelty? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00There is hardly any industrial product that is totally free of animal cruelty.

00:06In that context, sports too carry the imprint of animal cruelty, which is not necessary.

00:13But that's how it currently is.

00:15Human history hasn't exactly been of compassion.

00:19You look at arts, sciences, any field of human endeavor, and you will find animal products

00:26are everywhere.

00:27Because that's the way we have been.

00:28When a large animal, like a buffalo, a cow, a bull is slaughtered, every part of its body

00:35is used somewhere, mostly industrially.

00:38The animal skin is very visible in the musical instruments.

00:41Same thing for your sports.

00:42You look at cricket, the ball, it's a leather ball, there is leather.

00:46As human consciousness awakens, and that's our endeavor, you will find that the need

00:52to put an animal something somewhere, that need decreases.