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To: epicure who wrote (63029)	8/26/2002 12:18:04 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We are off to HK/Nepal tomorrow night. Last time we were in Kathmandu, there was a big Hindu festival going on. Its sort of like their Thanksgiving, I think. Anyway, the village people bring down the year's crop of goats in small herds and these are all gathered into fields about the valley. There the local's go to buy their annual goat dinner. Now Hindu's are normally a vegan lot but I guess this festival thing is an acceptable exception. So as the grand event approaches you see these people individually leading docile little goats away from the herds on rope leashes. I believe they slaughter millions of goats during that festival all over the subcontinent. I can just imagine the thoughts these poor little beasts are going through, first thrust into large unfamiliar flocks then dragged away on a leash like a dog in this country on its way home, to supper with a good family they probably hope. Except of course their lot is to become supper. The next day we saw carcasses being skinned and cooked, etc. It was all very accepted but of course coming from the Safeway shrinkwrap generation its a bit unsettling. There, that ought to satiate you.