Stray dogs need garbage, and with waste reducing, their populations in urban areas are bound to decline. Not just humans, even dogs suffer — crushed by vehicles, beaten up, falling ill, etc. They can either be integrated into our homes with care and responsibility or face extinction from our streets. It is heartwarming to see humans supporting one species, but why doesn’t our heart bleed for the crowds of animals we are slaughtering every day, making many of them extinct forever? Climate change is the biggest threat and is responsible for the maximum misery to animals.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. I am also part of the bookstore team in Kanpur and we prepare and do some awareness campaigns regarding “Operation 2030” that covers the part of climate change, and veganism is also a subset of that problem. Two days back, there was a directive by the Supreme Court regarding the stray dog issue of Delhi and NCR region. When we read that news, parallelly there was another thing that started outpouring on social media, which was basically the emotional outpour by animal activists, vegan activists, dog lovers, and all that was going on.
In that context, I would really appreciate it or I would really request you to please help me interpret this situation in a better way. The next part of this question is: How is this activism, or the emotional activism going on against this on social media, justified?
Acharya Prashant: First of all, you have to appreciate both the parties principally involved in the equation: The Supreme Court and the dog lovers, the animal activists. Both have valid points.
