Today's post is not about dogs or human cruelty towards animals. The issue is much bigger. It is about human intolerance towards humans. Lack of respect for other person's viewpoint and opinion. It seems people in India are no longer receptive to new ideas and they terribly abhor their critics.
About few days back Peta had written a letter to Amul, the largest dairy organisation of India to take advantage of its position to exploit market for plant based milk and food.
And not in their wildest of dreams Peta must have contemplated the response which Amul gave to their letter. The Amul Vice Chairman has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to ban Peta from India. The various grounds on the basis of which he has urged for a ban are listed below:
1 Peta is tarnishing the image of Indian dairy sector by giving misinformation. This will ruin the livelihood of 10 crore people who are dependent on the dairy industry. This will further adversaly affect the GDP of India.
2 10 core Indians do not indulge in any kind of cruelty towards animals because as per the Indian culture livestock is considered a part of the family. Cattles are treated as family members.
The vice chairman has further urged around 40 lakh dairy farmers who are associated with Amul and 15 lakh others to write letter to the PM asking him to ban Peta.
To know about the letter in detail kindly go on the link below:
This kind of response from the top boss of Amul is unwarranted and difficult to digest.
It seems they are living in their own small world without any knowledge of what's going on in India and the world around them.
Cows and buffaloes are not living in the best of conditions in India. May be in Gujarat but definitely not in Delhi and many other parts of India. Many owners use them like machines for their milk and then abandon them once they are of no use to them. The male calf is either abandoned soon after birth or sent to slaughterhouses. The female cows are impregnated again and again in the most unnatural and torturous manner by greedy HUMAN FAMILY MEMBER.
Kindly listen to what Maneka Gandhi the founder of PFA (People for Animals) has to say about Indian dairy industry and plant based food.
https://www.facebook.com/124993247519255/posts/4368268513191686/
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India is proud to have such an Indian politician and leader who fearlessly stands for the rights of the animals.
HSI (Humane Society International) India has also been canvassing about plant based food for quite sometime now.
After Peta will Amul now ask the Prime Minister to ban PFA and HSI India?
India has always advocated vegetarianism but not excluding dairy products. Milk, paneer, ghee, curd, sweets made of milk have been an integral part of our culture and to get rid of them from our daily lives is not easy. Milk and milk products are also used in various Hindu rituals and ceremonies.
The reality is that no matter how much canvassing Peta, PFA, HSI may do to replace dairy milk and food with plant based food the people of India may not replace it and even if they do it it will take a very long time. Can't see it happen at least in the near future.
Why Amul has become so insecure and starting imagining international conspiracy against them one just fails to understand
Yoga is a beautiful gift from India to the rest of the world. Many westerners have quit gymming and jogging and replaced it with yoga. Many fitness trainers have got themselves trained in yoga just because they felt that the future is in yoga.
Has India conspired to ruin the businesses of gym owners outside India by introducing yoga to the world?. There must be millions of body builders and trainers and gym owners whose businesses has and shall get affected due to yoga. But they are still running their businesses. They are not feeling threatened because of it and not cursing yoga or seeking it's ban. There are still millions who like to jog and go gymming than do yoga.
Brahmakumaris an Indian spiritual organisation has its centre round the globe. They often preach satvic food. According to them food should be cooked by family members and they should avoid eating in restaurants and hotels.
Are they conspiring against hoteliers? If every individual of the world starts following the principles of Brahmakumaris then by all likelihood the hotels and restaurants will have to be shut down.
Well the truth is that neither Brahmakumaris are conspiring against restaurant owners nor Yoga teachers conspiring against gym owners.
Amul's reaction to PETA's letter was quite immature and childish. Instead they could have responded in any one of the following ways:
1 Written a letter back to Peta saying they do not wish to go plant based
2 Seeing the world trend they may give it a thought and start a plant based milk and food parallel to the dairy products. This way they can add more employment and add more to the GDP of India
The vice chairman of Amul should visit Delhi and go to a couple of garbage sites in the morning hours between 6 AM to 9 AM and then in the evening between 8 PM to 10 PM.. He will find many starving cows both male, female and their young ones looking for food. They have no water to drink in the summers and hardly any food to satiate their hunger. They often sleep empty stomach. And to add to their woes they are even hit by cars, trucks and buses. Many die on the streets due to accidents. Many cows on the streets are ones whose human family member has milked them and then left them empty stomach along with their calf to find food in the garbage. They eat every dirt and filth lying in the garbage including polythenes.
Unfortunately the govt till date has not come out with right, pragmatic and feasible solution for the cattles of India.
Putting cows and buffaloes in shelters is neither practically feasible nor financially. Many cow shelters in India are bleeding to death due to paucity of funds.
Wish Amul had told Peta and the world how well they are treating their cows. How their human family members are not exploiting their cattles. That they neither abandon them nor send their male calf to slaughterhouses and their cows are not artificially impregnated. That the milk and milk products which Indians and people outside India consume are absolutely SATVIC. That no Gau Mata has been put through physical and emotional pain and no blood has been shed of her male calf. Because milk devoid of pain and blood alone is SATVIC.
The least Amul and all dairy cooperatives of India could do is assure the people of India that the milk and milk products they are selling is hundred percent SATVIK.
Instead of asking for Peta ban, Amul should have asked the govt to come out with stricter laws and penalties for cattle owners who abandon their cattles on the streets and use them in the most inhuman manner just to make money out of them. And last but not the least devise a mechanism by which no cow and buffalo roams on the streets of India hungry and thirsty.
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