I have watched and worked in
Indian Dairy farming very closely. I used to house stray cows and work with
them to make them productive and reproductively efficient, these two major
things for which the dairy farmers would let their cows loose and become stray.
Why, because it is not righteous to slaughter cows in India. Even the
government has banned it.
What these stray cattle are subjected to- hunger, starvation, extreme weather and beatings. But they are SACRED!! This is politics in the name of cow and nobody wants to help the poor animal but gain the political mileage by showing themselves as devotees and true HINDUs. 'Why can't we save cow for the sake of our religion?' Really? Are we really saving them? How? By letting them stray on the roads, eat plastic and die with diseases that we don't even care to address.
they are abandoned to eat garbage and die. This was a suggestion given by N.S. Ramaswamy, founder-director of IIM Bangalore and a notable animal rights activist, that there should be proper slaughterhouses near the farm so that such commercially nonviable cattle can be humanely culled nearby, without them having to be transported to distant places in horrendous conditions or be left astray. But who wants to listen to such intellectual people when we have the 'Moral Hindutva Brigade' with us? It's not about tongue/taste friends, it's all about that mentality to dominate, force, and bully. To bring anyone and everyone under our control leaving no room for discussion. There was a time in this very India when, without eating beef, no Brahmin could remain a Brahmin; you read in the Vedas how, when a Sannyasin, a king, or a great man came into a house, the best bullock was killed; how in time it was found that as we were an agricultural race, killing the best bulls meant annihilation of the race. Therefore the practice was stopped, and a VOICE was raised against the killing of cows.
You will be astonished if I tell you that, ACCORDING to the old ceremonials, he is not a good Hindu who does not eat beef. On certain occasions he must sacrifice a bull and eat it. That is disgusting now.
I am highly impressed and influenced by work of Dr. Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University.
“I think we can eat meat ethically,” she says, “but we’ve got to give animals a good life.”Dr. Grandin has spent 30 years doing that by looking at the beef industry through the eyes of a cow. She lays down in muddy corrals, crawls through metal chutes, and even stands in the stun boxes where factory workers deliver their fatal blows.She’s found a bunch of small ways that add up to a big difference in how humanely the beef industry treats cattle. Her discoveries include two inventions used in most slaughterhouses today: curved loading chutes and the center-track restrainer system.
What these stray cattle are subjected to- hunger, starvation, extreme weather and beatings. But they are SACRED!! This is politics in the name of cow and nobody wants to help the poor animal but gain the political mileage by showing themselves as devotees and true HINDUs. 'Why can't we save cow for the sake of our religion?' Really? Are we really saving them? How? By letting them stray on the roads, eat plastic and die with diseases that we don't even care to address.
they are abandoned to eat garbage and die. This was a suggestion given by N.S. Ramaswamy, founder-director of IIM Bangalore and a notable animal rights activist, that there should be proper slaughterhouses near the farm so that such commercially nonviable cattle can be humanely culled nearby, without them having to be transported to distant places in horrendous conditions or be left astray. But who wants to listen to such intellectual people when we have the 'Moral Hindutva Brigade' with us? It's not about tongue/taste friends, it's all about that mentality to dominate, force, and bully. To bring anyone and everyone under our control leaving no room for discussion. There was a time in this very India when, without eating beef, no Brahmin could remain a Brahmin; you read in the Vedas how, when a Sannyasin, a king, or a great man came into a house, the best bullock was killed; how in time it was found that as we were an agricultural race, killing the best bulls meant annihilation of the race. Therefore the practice was stopped, and a VOICE was raised against the killing of cows.
You will be astonished if I tell you that, ACCORDING to the old ceremonials, he is not a good Hindu who does not eat beef. On certain occasions he must sacrifice a bull and eat it. That is disgusting now.
I am highly impressed and influenced by work of Dr. Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University.
“I think we can eat meat ethically,” she says, “but we’ve got to give animals a good life.”Dr. Grandin has spent 30 years doing that by looking at the beef industry through the eyes of a cow. She lays down in muddy corrals, crawls through metal chutes, and even stands in the stun boxes where factory workers deliver their fatal blows.She’s found a bunch of small ways that add up to a big difference in how humanely the beef industry treats cattle. Her discoveries include two inventions used in most slaughterhouses today: curved loading chutes and the center-track restrainer system.
But all said and done, until we
separate politics from profession, Dairy farming has a big negative to become a
profitable profession in India.
