Bob Hobden wrote:
"Sacha" wrote
[...]
Which is the Indian (I think) culture that does that? The leave the
bodies
on top of very tall towers and the vultures go to work.....

Followers of the ancient Persian religion Zoroastranism, know as
Parsi's, do that, they simply leave their dead on platforms out in
the open for vultures to consume, the bones are then powdered and
that way nothing pollutes the earth.
http://adaniel.tripod.com/parsi.htm
I've known an Indian Parsi and a Persian (Iranian) Parsi, both lovely
people.

But there's something of a crisis in the poetically-named "Towers of
Silence", owing to a dramatic decline in vultures caused by over-use of
pharmaceuticals in Indian cattle. Captive breeding programmes are in
progress, but I don't know how successful they are.

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Mike.



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