SPIRITUAL MEANING OF SACRIFICE OF ANIMAL IN BHARATYA (INDIAN) CULTURE :
1. In VEDANTIC SPIRITUALITY IT WAS ADVOCATED TO GIVE UP OR SACRIFICE THE 'animality in us (Base ,lower instinct) for evolutioary ascent.
2. In subsequent Inndo-Arian culture (2nd Arian immigration to Bharat),the nomadic people took up Agricultural habits of living on river side and was influenced by orisinal Dravidian way of living in Gangetic vallies first and gaving up the hunting habit and living mostly on agricultural product and fish from rivers.
3. Hunting habit (regularly or daily) on hunted animal(Nomadic habit)was no more -the normal social culture except in Royal or Rulers way of ritual hunting.
4. In Geeta[at least -1500 B.C} (Ch. 9/27) it is advocated : "Whayever you do, or EAT, or practise, or give or meditate on , oh, Arjuna, - offer it first to me ."'
So . Modern Egoistic so called civillised people should tink again , if it is not a more spiritual way to offer everything to GOD(DIVINE) first and then do it or accept it as food.
5. In Modern world and Western Societies, KFCs And Mc Donalds are s every where and there is no place where cooke- meat is not available. But with my experience of Chold-hood for 15 yrs in rural Bharat, we never knew meat- eating other than puja -ceremonies, once or twice in a year where goats were always offered to god first and then accepted as food (also other eatables as Prasad). so the too-much Westernised people should think deeply and know that offering every thing we do and every thing we eat , first to the Divine and then accept it as work or food is a real Civilsed Culture and should be adapted by all, East or West.