Interesting editing

As I've mentioned before, movies on TV here are edited (even on HBO). They are edited for language, and violence and anything beyond a hug is edited out.
Some movies make almost no sense with all the editing, but for the most part it is fine. Sometimes if I've seen a movie before I'll sense that something is missing but am not quite sure what.
When it comes to violence usually they will show someone shooting a gun, and they will show people dead after being shot, but not the actual moment when someone is shot.
So, the movie Three Kings was on the other day (this was the Gulf War movie with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, I think it came out about 8 or 9 years ago). It is a good movie so I decided to watch it and I had one of those "I think they skipped something" moments. About 5 minutes later I realize what it was. There is a scene fairly early in the movie when a cow gets blown up. I forget how, I think the cow accidentally walks on a mine.
That entire scene was cut out. I was surprised at first, I thought they would have maybe shown the bit leading up to it and then the reaction to the explosion, but then I remembered that cows are sacred here (well, technically they are sacred only to Hindus, but that is around 80% of the population). So that scene, even though it the cow blowing up was accidental, is literally sacrilegious so was completely removed. It makes sense, I mean people think I'm a heathen for eating a hamburger, I cannot imagine how they would react to that.
Of course it made one bit in the next scene really confusing, but better one confusing line than offending an entire nation.
Oh, and apparently Slumdog Millionaire has been edited in the movie theatres here. There has been some controversy over it, apparently people say that it is an inaccurate portrayal of life in India and that is just the western view of slum life so they have removed some of the parts. I want to see it but will wait 'til I'm somewhere in the west so I can see the whole thing.