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Why it's offensive to offer a lamb dinner to the Hindu god Ganesha

  • Written by Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College
imageThe Hindu god Ganesha.Anant Nath Sharma, CC BY-NC-ND

A recent ad from the meat industry in Australia, seeking to promote lamb as a food that people from a wide range of religious backgrounds can consume, has given offenseto many Hindus in Australia and internationally.

In Australia, the ad prompted a complaint by the High Commission of India. In the...

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