I was lining the Blueys' litter box with old newspapers when I chanced upon reading a short report about what is called a "Python Bath".
Apparently, a Bidayuh girl was born "abnormal". She had a frail and soft body and moved like a snake. It was known that her father liked to hunt pythons and would eat them as well.
So the "elders" proposed that the girl bathed with a python. They believed the father of the girl had offended the Python Spirit.
After the "Python Bath", the girl became normal again. Yes, they bathed her with a python. How? I don't know. No details were given. But even as I'm writing this now, my hair is standing on end.
The father vowed never to hunt pythons for the rest of his life, and also never to eat them again.
Well, good for him, I say, and good for the pythons, too!
As a child, I've been told that snakes are very revengeful creatures. Maybe that's why you don't find babies moving like chickens, cows, goats, pigs, etc. though these are slaughtered by the billions daily as food for humans. Maybe herbivorous animals are not revengeful? We'll never quite know, will we?
But in any case, out of compassion, please let's eat less of them.
Read my new book, please, and let's start a culture of eating less meat, shall we?
We cannot call ourselves "animal lovers" if we still devour animals by the thousands in one lifetime, can we? A typical meat-eater would have eaten about 11,000 animals in his one lifetime.
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