{"id":97564,"date":"2020-01-10T18:38:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97564"},"modified":"2020-02-04T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T22:29:35","slug":"western-hypocrisy-protesting-against-elephants-in-chains-but-silent-on-australia-killing-10000-camels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/10\/western-hypocrisy-protesting-against-elephants-in-chains-but-silent-on-australia-killing-10000-camels\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Hypocrisy: Protesting against elephants in chains but silent on Australia killing 10,000 camels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There\nwas much uproar against many Asian countries regarding chaining of elephants\nwith specific reference to Sri Lanka\u2019s use of elephants in Buddhist cultural\npageants. The gist or modus operandi behind the demonstrations against \u2018abuse\nof elephants\u2019 for Buddhist temple pageants was to subtly dislocate historical\nand cultural links traditionally revered and held annually. Presuming that the\nprotests were as a result of genuine concern for animals \u2013 then why the silence\nabout Australia\u2019s killing some 10,000 camels simply because they are drinking\ntoo much water?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s\nbushfires started in September 2019 and has been continuing since.  Over 14million acres of land has been\ndestroyed, 20 people have died and over 1billion animals have died. 10,000\ncamels are going to add to this list. Adding to the crisis is 183 arrests for\narson. What were they thinking? But what is more important is what is Australia\nthinking in deciding to kill 10,000 camels? Will it stop the bushfires? Will it\nsolve the problem? Will it not further anger nature?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare more than 1million camels in Australia. 10,000 of them are to be killed\nshooting them from helicopters. According to the BBC the shooting began on 8th<\/sup>\nJanuary and should take 5 days to complete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/australia-drought-camels-roundup-2644591432.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Map\nshowing camel density<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.feralscan.org.au\/camelscan\/pagecontent.aspx?page=camel_largepopulations\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/australian-hunters-kill-camels-helicopters-drought-fire-season.html<\/a> please read the comments by ordinary people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nwe all sympathize and empathize with what Australia is going through grappling\nthe spreading bush fires, but the decision to kill camels is going to only\nincur natures wrath further. Nature will protect only those that protect nature\nand we must heed lessons from many of the natural disasters that have taken\nplace. Japan experiences regular tsunamis \u2013 Japan is also a country that eats\nlive fish and whale killing is such that out of 333 whales killed in 2018 \u2013 122\nwere pregnant whales. In 2016 New Zealand was\nstruck by an earthquake immediately followed by a tsunami. The news came after\na series of exposures on the New Zealand dairy industry and the cruelty\ninflicted upon cows. In Nepal immediately after the Gadhima festival that\nkilled close to 300,000 animals a devastating earthquake struck. In Pakistan\nhundreds of dogs were killed and their dead bodies were thrown on the roads, no\nsooner a suicide bomb left an entire generation of lawyers killed in one city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nature\u2019s message beckons us to rethink morality and ethics\napplying not only to humans but to animals as well and questions right\nlivelihood and the need to develop greater harmony with nature and compassion\nfor all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis a shame that animal rights activists are selective in their pointing of\nfingers \u2013 they lavishly chided Sri Lanka over treatment of elephants for\ncultural pageants but are silent over culling of 10,000 camels. It simply\nhighlights the hypocrisy of the same players in their attitude to human rights\ntoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was much uproar against many Asian countries regarding chaining of elephants with specific reference to Sri Lanka\u2019s use of elephants in Buddhist cultural pageants. The gist or modus operandi behind the demonstrations against \u2018abuse of elephants\u2019 for Buddhist temple pageants was to subtly dislocate historical and cultural links traditionally revered and held annually. Presuming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}