2010 World Cup Animal Sacrifice?
October 25, 2009 by Jyle Dupuis
Filed under FIFA World Cup
There is a news circulating that South Africa plans on kicking off the 2010 World Cup games by ’sacrificing’ a cow (check out the article at Yahoo.com). This of course is upsetting some people as they seem to care if a cow get’s killed. South Africa is defending their decision by stating that the ceremony needs to be blessed ‘African Style’ for the games to run smoothly.
The World Cup Stadium in Capetown, South Africa, 17 February 2009.
I personally don’t see what the big deal is about sacrificing a cow for the South African World Cup. No one seems to care about the cow that died to end up in their Big Mac. Why is this such a big deal. For the Muslim people they ’sacrifice’ lambs once a year for Ramadan, after which they are eaten. But I mean we don’t even need to look to foreign countries to see ritual sacrifices. Here in North America we go out into the woods to find a wild turkey to ’sacrifice’ for our traditional Thanksgiving Day celebration. What exactly is the difference. Isn’t killing the turkey apart of our tradition? My goodness people need to chill on other people’s traditions. I really hope South Africa does go ahead with their rituals.
Image: Newscom
There is no comparison between the McDonalds Cow and the method of African Style of sacrifice. You can’t know that because you are not from SA. Please have a look here to see just how it is done: http://thewordwright.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/2010-soccer-world-cup-animal-sacrifice-planned/
Sincerely.
thewordwright
That’s precisely the point. When we see someone else doing something we don’t like, it doesn’t mean that we’re wrong for not liking it because we do it too.
Maybe we could take it a step further and ask ourselves what it is about what someone else is doing that we don’t like. And are we doing something just as bad in North America?
Look at animal resource consumption. Look at cross-contamination and pollution of animal origin. Look at obesity rates in the U.S. Look at the prevalence of diet-associated medical conditions and the costs of treating them. Look at factory farms: who benefits and who doesn’t? And we haven’t even gotten to the issue of animal ethics.
I may be a vegetarian soccer fan, but that doesn’t mean I think everyone should be like me. Rather than personalizing it, I think we just need to look at the facts. Killing a man or an animal in the street in a foreign land is just as wrong as doing it here behind closed doors. When we are sheltered from that sort of brutality, we don’t bother to think about where those chicken nuggets and quarter pounders came from before they were ground up and shaped into what some people call “food.” But that doesn’t change the fact that a living creature was killed on behalf of the consumer. When we buy meat, we participate in slaughter.
When the world comes together on the 2010 World Cup pitch, I’d rather not see it soaked with blood. (Literally, or otherwise.) They plan to sacrifice several cows. (Not just one.) And it is done is a particularly inhumane and grotesque fashion.
South Africa has been granted a great honor in hosting the event, and they could pick a more responsible way to represent their traditions without offending their guests – which happen to be every soccer fan on the planet.
Its one thing to be humane and ANOTHER to sacrifice “THE AFICAN TRADITIONAL WAY”. Have you even taken the time to WATCH the video!
It is against most religions TOO. This is not a SOUTH AFRICAN cup …. Its a WORLD CUP EVENT!! Wake UP!!!!
Just in case you have not viewed the YouTube clip, here is how it happens:
The cow’s legs are tethered together and she is flipped on her side. You can hear her moaning. She is held down by two or three people while a fourth one is standing by with a small dish and a fifth person wields the knife. They slit her throat, but the animal does not die. She screams and struggles, trying to throw off her assailant. He stumbles backwards and comes for her again, cutting some more. Her eyelids are still batting and her eyes are filled with panic and fear as he hacks away at her throat. She continues struggling weakly as the man with the dish approaches her to catch the blood spurting from her arteries. She still is not dead. There is no post- or pre-incision stunning.
It will take a while before she will have bled enough to die – much longer than the 51 second YouTube clip
Think before you comment on “what the big Deal” is. Alot of religions all over the world will be offended. Perhaps you don’t care about life like others do!