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Hindu monks campaigning to save a sacred bull from being slaughtered under animal health regulations have ramped their media push up a notch. Now the cow has its own Webcam, "MooTube".

There is a case presented for the survival of the sacred cow, here and here, and the Skanda Vale community called for a rethink of Britain’s “incredibly stupid” policy for controlling bovine tuberculosis. Apparently some farmers sympathise, but some Hindus apparently consider that this sort of popularisation of the matter trivialises what are actually serious animal cruelty issues, and, indeed, to Hindus and many others, serious religious, moral and social issues in the UK

The moral perspective in the UK is sometimes strange, and often even lacking altogether, I agree. Strange and even barbarous, perhaps, to slaughter household pets for meat, for example.

Stanley Milgram showed us that we are only inches, not hundreds of miles, from sanctioning Auschwitz style situations today, in fact some say that we do sanction them anyway. Someone actually plaintively said in a blog about Shamba :"I once got ill.. but a guy in a funny outfit didn't come to kill me."