I find it bizarre that people get so upset about sacrifice of animals in religious ritual when that’s exactly what kosher meat is! And, something many don’t realise, the animal is indeed at least partly eaten in the aftermath to many rituals. So long as it is done humanely, it doesn’t make sense to fuss.

If you eat meat, then a huge amount of toxic pollution, famine and life-wasting happens in your name every day, unless you eat only meat that comes from small, humane farms. Corporate farms use practices that are gruesome and inhumane with the sole intent of creating as much “product” as possible at the lowest cost. Animals are cheaper to let sicken and die than to treat in many cases, and the illnesses are caused by the inhumane way they are raised, which is due to profit being the only goal. And if you don’t think profit is a religion for corporations, I will be surprised.

Animals used for sacrifice I treated with more dignity, humanity and respect than almost any animal that makes it into a hamburger, period. And, for the record, I am a vegetarian of 14 years that has no intent to ever sacrifice an animal, but if I did eat meat, I think it would be a sacred duty for me to commune with an animal I intended to eat at least once, thank it for its life, and have the guts to honor it by killing it myself (or hunt it myself). Eating animals thoughtlessly is sacreligious to anyone who believes all life is sacred. I have much greater respect for those who sacrifice animals with honor as part of their faith than those that pull up to a drive thru window for a Big Mac.