According to Osho, harming animals is intrinsically wrong, yet he accepts that in extreme necessity—when a human life is at stake—some violence may be unavoidable. Because society hasn’t enabled total nonviolence, compassion must be balanced with pragmatic survival, even if it means sacrificing animals in rare emergencies. The ideal remains nonviolence; the practice is conditional, contextual, and responsibility-laden.
Hurting animals is bad, but if someone would die without it, survival comes first until we create a world where no harm is needed.