--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Not Safe For Work > > > > Not Safe For Work > > > > Dead bodies stewed along the Ganges. > > > > I'm putting the below link with spaces added on the sides of the decimal > > point to insure the graphics don't display here. > > > > I'm rather shocked. I thought they had that cremation system all figured > > out. > > > > http://imgur . com/a/x0UQO > > Most people are cremated, but they are not always 100% effective for poor > people due to a lack of firewood. Walking along the Yamuna I stumbled upon > quite a few half-baked bodies, no bid deal. What you always have to bring > when you go to India are good shoes with thick soles !
Hmmmm lovely, and all that disease! Doesn't anyone think maybe there could be a better way? Or does religion forbid it. Saw a fascinating documentary about leopard attacks in India, well on the rise and no-one knew why. Turns out that people were giving cows pain killers to spare the sacred beasts dying in pain. The drugs poisoned the vultures and dogs took over scavenging duties. They then ate the leopards usual food once the cow supply had dried up, thus forcing leopards into closer proximity with people. Unintended consequences eh? Also the vultures that are now almost extinct don't help out with "sky" burials so there are even more rotting corpses lying around. The obvious solution is shoot the cows and put them out of their misery but they won't because cows are sacred blah blah. What a country!
