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“Often we forget that we are human, and we treat animals inhumane“
In my childhood and teenage years, I got a chance to live with many domestic animals. Cows and Buffaloes are one of them. I still remember on the way to home from school daily I was observing a big gate from where huge amounts of dung were getting out. Being a child I always question what type of place this is as the building has long boundaries and a huge gate. Slowly with the help of parents and friends I got to know that it is a place where many cows and buffaloes live together. Realization comes when we want fresh tea every morning and before that a person knocks on our door and delivers fresh milk. Ladies and Gentlemen this journey of getting milk is not so fresh. Cattles are sacrificing their development / upbringing and living in a place which is worse than prison (Compared it with prison as prison is compared to the worst place to survive for human beings).
Please think once before having tea / coffee or something like this, from where we are getting milk and being human should we consume it?
Cows are beaten into submission and artificially inseminated so that they will keep producing milk. Although trained professionals should perform this practice, most cows are repeatedly inseminated by “barefoot healers” who ignore the most basic hygienic standards and use equipment that has not been sterilized, exposing cows to infections and diseases.
Most of a cow’s day is spent confined to a narrow, filthy stall. Cows are injected with Oxytocin, an illegal drug that causes them to produce unnaturally large quantities of milk and suffer severe stomach cramps as though they were in labor. Cows are impregnated repeatedly. They grieve for every calf they deliver who is ripped away a few days after birth. Cows often develop mastitis – an infection of the udders – from rough handling and rumen acidosis from unwholesome food.
Other abuses documented by PETA’s investigator include:
1 Calves were tethered with short chains, often without any shelter.
2 Workers kicked buffaloes to make them stand. Injured animals were hit with sticks and pulled by their tails.
3 Bleeding buffaloes were denied veterinary care.
4 Animals were covered in their feces
5 Animals lived among heaps of garbage.
6 Drinking water was filthy. [1].
Conclusion:
We should raise our voices wherever we are observing any such case and take the initiative to save the animals. We can also go to Police Court as our constitution provides us this much leverage under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, of 1960. Also, it is our Fundamental duty to protect animals (Article 51-A (g) of the Constitution of India, it is the duty of every citizen to protect wildlife and exhibit compassion for living creatures.)
Recommended Reading:
Satvik Revolution by Subah Saraf (Author), Harshvardhan Saraf (Author).
References:
[1]. https://secure.petaindia.com/page/74381/data/1?locale=en-GB
[2]. https://animalequality.org/issues/dairy/