COW SLAUGHTERING IN INDIA: A SIMPLE WAY TO THROW PEOPLE INTO THE GLOBAL TRAIN

Source: Think Before You Ink!

By Gundhramns Hammer

September 19, 2013

Greedy businessmen, especially those educated in the West (chiefly England), rub their hands when they think of India. It is one of the emerging economies, which basically means that its people are being put into the global elite´s sack. 

India has a population of 1.2 billion people. And this is a lot of people. So here there is potentially a massive number of consumers.

If only could these masses of people be made to abandon their "unproductive way of life", then they would be rolling on the global train!

And they are already rolling on the global train but at a very high price for a lot of people: Especially the poor.

Poor farmers in India have been coaxed and beguiled into using GM seeds, which has been a sure way to get into debts with the local banks and poisoning the environment with pesticides. Once cornered by the spiralling debts, many farmers see no other choice but to commit suicide.

Furthermore, their way of life so dependent on cows is being purposely erased, amongst other uncanny things.

Which brings us to cow slaughtering In India. 

The best way to get poor people out of the way or put them on the wagons of the global economical train is to make them get rid of their cows. 

And this is what is happening in India, where a cow is and should be sacred, for this animal means a way of survival for the poor people.

Let us hope that India´s thousands of wisdom are not thrown into the garbage heap just to get people into the rampant consumerism that is putting at risk the ecosystems on the planet.  

Here is an article about cow slaughtering in India:


Source: Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yathra
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Our nation is a country of villages. Lives of villagers are mainly based on agriculture. Agriculture largely depends on the cow and bull. The bull is given a place of pride in our culture and national heritage. The holy ‘Gou Matha’ is a source of both food and economy. She is the centre of ayurveda, environment, Indian economics, culture and agriculture.[Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yathra]

Dark Chapter of Cow Slaughter

• 1760 : Robert Clive established in Calcutta the first abattoir of the country.
• 1861 : Queen Victoria wrote to Viceroy of India prompting to hurt the Indian sentiments towards cows.
• 1947 : At the time of independence, India had a little more than 300 abattoirs. Today there are more than 35,000 approved ones. There are thousands of unapproved slaughter houses.
• The cow-breeds have fallen from 70 to 33. Even among the remaining breeds, some are at the verge of extinction.
• Cow population has reduced by 80% after independence.
• 1993-94 : India exported 1,01,668 ton beef, with a target of 2,00,000 tons for 1994-95.
• We slaughter cow for its hide to make vanity bags and belts, bone-meal for tooth paste, blood for vitamin tablets and intestines (especially of calves) for making gold and silver wafers to stick on sweets.
• It is believed that series of earthquakes like the ones at Lathur in 1993 and in Bihar in 1994 are caused because of cow-slaughter.  

Human-Cattle Population Ratio

References

GRAIN (2012). The Great Food Robbery: How Corporations Control Food, Grab Land and Destroy the Climate. Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press, Oxford, UK. 161 p.