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Hinduism & Buddhism. Jordan Breneisen. Animal Ethics (Hinduism). There is no single accepted way to properly treat animals. Most Hindus are vegetarian. No Hindu will eat beef. Butchery and related jobs are restricted to low caste people. Animal Ethics (cont).
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Hinduism & Buddhism Jordan Breneisen
Animal Ethics (Hinduism) • There is no single accepted way to properly treat animals. • Most Hindus are vegetarian. • No Hindu will eat beef. • Butchery and related jobs are restricted to low caste people.
Animal Ethics (cont) • With the exception of cows, nonhuman animals are inferior to humans. • Cows are sacred and are allowed to wander where they wish. • It is a sin to kill a or eat a cow. • Animal sacrifices are permitted, as long as the animal isn’t a cow.
Animals/Karma (Buddhism) • Animals and humans are essentially equal. • When one dies, one is reborn as either a human or a non-human animal. • Animal cruelty will damage the perpetrator’s karma.
Animals (B cont) • When one performs serious misdeeds in one life, they are reborn as an animal. • Because animals can’t consciously improve themselves, they will continue to be reborn as animals until all their bad karma is exhausted.
Buddhist Vegetarian • Buddha has not issued a ban on eating meat. • Not all Buddhists are vegetarian. • Early monks could eat meat as long as the animal had not been killed specifically to feed them
