If you can deal with human ignorance only then there is the chance, we will be more friendly, more compassionate towards animals. Otherwise, a sectoral approach, a fragmented approach will at most make you feel good about yourself. But in the bigger picture, it does no favor to the animals or to the environment.
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Questioner: Pranaam Acharya Ji. My name is Akshaya and I am 14 years old. I've been doing sessions and watching you with my mother for 2 years. And my question is that I have seen some, a lot of pro players, mostly tennis players who use tennis rackets of cow's gut strings.
And they are actually vegan and a lot of people appreciate that they are vegan and they don't do any animal cruelty. So I want to ask if they are turning vegan for their own reasons because of their improvement and instructions from their coaches, ‘Are they changing anything at all?’
Acharya Prashant: See, even those things are happening. Sports equipment is undergoing a change. Also the guts, the cords, were called guts specifically because they were made of animal’s intestines. That's the reason you used to call them guts. But sports technology has advanced and more and more you have these strings that are no longer made of animal material. I do not know of specific players who are vegan and are yet using these animal strings.
But technology has provided the choice that you don't need. See, you have to understand something. Human history hasn't exactly been of compassion. You look at arts, sciences, any field of human endeavor and you will find animal products are everywhere because that's the way we have been. When a large animal like a buffalo, a cow or bull; every part of its body is used somewhere, mostly industrially which means that everything, almost everything that comes to you contains or is likely to contain some animal, animal product or even if it's not having an animal product, it's possible that something from animals has been used in its manufacturing. That is because our history has not been of compassion.
