Animals Have Souls and Feelings, Just Like We Do

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Animals Have Souls and Feelings, Just Like We Do

Discoveries about other animals' consciousness challenge
the arrogance of Homo sapiens and call for greater
compassion and nonviolence in our relations

By Matthew McDermott, New York
Hinduism Today Magazine
April-May-June 2013

The worlds of biological research and animal rights
advocacy are becoming more closely aligned with
traditional Hindu views on the relationship between
animals, humans and existence itself.

Scientific studies are showing us that many animal
species have rich emotional lives, complex social
interactions and advanced cognitive powers. Some even
have a sense of fairness, and of right and wrong. The
traditional Western scientific view -- that animals are
little more than unthinking, unfeeling biological
machines, sharply distinguished from humans擁s being
upended. . . .

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In vedic times animals including cows were eaten. Animal sacrifice was
common.