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| Cows' Milk is for Calves- Is it really? |
Dairy Industry
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India Stands No 1 in the world
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Followed by USA
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Investment: Rs 2242 Crores
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Demand: 150 Million tonnes of Milk
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Target Year: 2016-17
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Result
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Tragedy to Cows
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Production through artificial insemination
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Government Proposal
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Increase Animal Husbandry , Dairying and Fisheries
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Productivity enhancement
Village Level Infrastructure growth
Greater access to world markets
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India is cattle capital of the world
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324 Million herd
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Result: Pollution, Fodder
demands and illegal business
Cruelty to Animals
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Myth-1
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Cow is an Indian God, worshiped and protected.
Valued as a family member and loved raising in homes
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Reality : Horror show of
cruelty. Cow slaughtering and milking
is a big business
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Myth-2
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Milk is source of calcium
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Reality: Osteoporosis is caused
due to consumption of milk and have more calcium in the diet
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There is no connection between bone health and
consumption of milk
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Myth 3
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Cattle rearing is protecting of animals
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Reality- Cattle growing
numbers for business is a bane to environment
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Bovines produce Methane when they pass gas
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Each Bovine produces anywhere between 100 Lt's-
500 litres of methane per day- equivalent to carbon dioxide emission from a car
for one day
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Huge bovine population makes methane a
dangerous pollutant
Ecological imbalance:
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Producing fodder is a strain on scarce land
and water resources
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Animal agriculture occupies 30% of earth’s
land area
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Forested areas are let to graze or grow feed
for farmed animals
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Effecting the cost of increase in prices of
plant based diet
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Various ways of cruelty
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1. Artificial insemination
2. Infertility
due to 360 days of pregnancy
3. Poor
equipment
4. Lack
of proper training
5. Calves
are separated from the mothers the next day of their birth
6. Cow
and Calves don’t have a chance to experience the joys of motherhood to avoid
the calves drinking off the full milk
7. Bellows
of thirsty calves go unnoticed
8. Calves
are treated as Replacement Stocks
9. Increasing
yield by injecting harmones like Oxytocin which is actually banned in India
10. Hormonal
injections result in abortions, mastitis, lower conception rate, calves
in fact mortality, delayed puberty.
11. Milk
cows expected to give birth to calves
every year.
12. 50%
of calves which are males are used to ploughing or butchered
13. Sheltered
in dark, cramped and acrid quarters
14. Male
calves are let to starve to death, thus suffering an early death
15. Cows
are kept pregnant almost 360 days in a year resulting in them drying up at
the age of 6 or 7 instead of usual 14 years of their life span
16. Milked
overly, suffering from artificial insemination, hormonal injections and
trauma of separation
17. Trafficked
for slaughtering under inhuman conditions
18. Non
milking cows are let to live on food from streets and plastic waste
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Products:
1. Skin
is used for leather
2. Cow
leather is used to make seat covers, shoes, belts, purses, pouches and sandals.
3. Meat
is used for domestic consumption and exports
4. Calf
leather has huge demand and calf meat called Veal is in high demand in Middle
East
5. Unborn
calves meat is used for medicines
6. Cattle’s
heart tissues are used to rebuild livers
7. Horns
and Hoofs are used to make buttons, adhesives, plastics, pet food, plant
food, shampoos and conditioners, boards, lamination paper, and plywood.
8. Blood
is used for making pasta, imitation eggs,
cake mixes, dyes and inks, adhesives,
minerals, medicines, and laboratory research materials
9. Flesh
is used for meat
10. Tail
is used for fertility treatment
11. Bones
used for whitening sugar and producing Gelatin, Charcoal, fertilizers and
Glass
12. Anti-aging
creams and medicines are produced from cattle brains
13. Hair
is used to make air filters, Brushes, insulation, plaster and textiles
14. Internal
organs are used to make musical instruments, tennis racquet's strings,
harmones, enzymes, vitamins and surgical
sutures other medicinal materials
15. Milk
is used to make adhesives,
plastics, cosmetics and
medicines
16. Manure
is used for fertilizers , nitrogen and phosphorous
17. Skin
is used to make gelatin,
flavorings, emery boards,
wallpapers, sheets, candies and confectionery
18. Fat
is used to make chewing gums, candies, detergents, fabric softeners, deos,
shaving creams, perfume, pet food,
cosmetics, creams and lotions, crayons and paint, oils and lubricants, bio diesel and plastics, waterproofing
agents, cement, ceramics, chalk ,
explosives, fireworks, matches, fertilizers, antifreeze,
insulation's, linoleum, rubber,
textiles and medicines.
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People Vs Vegans
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Population of 1.2 Billion
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400 Million Vegetarians only
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Laws Governing slaughter houses
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28 states have laws for protection
legislation's
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Less or no stringent laws in Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram,
Nagaland, Tripura, Lakshadweep, and largerly Kerala
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Organizations fighting for Animal rights
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1.
People for Cattle in India (PFCI)
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Slaughter Houses
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India- 3600 slaughter houses
9 Modern Abattoirs
171 Meat processing units
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Illegal slaughter houses account to more than 30000 in India which
are unregulated
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India – Biggest Beef Exporter
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16,80,0000 tonnes of beef and Veal exports followed by Brazil and
Australian in 2013
Forecast increase to record 2.16 million tonnes
1.24 Billions $s worth of beef exported in 2012
1.4 million tonnes of cattle legally slaughtered in 2012 nationwide
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Key: Government subsidies for
increasing export market
One dead animal is worth close to Rs. 30000
Tax payer money is used to give subsidies to gain export revenues in
dairy products, leather and beef industries.
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Solution
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Plant based diet
Production of protein rich plant based foods such as legumes,
Soybeans, pulses, fruits, nuts using land and water resources that are other
wise used to produce cattle feed
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If we have to let the food on the plates of our children, then going
Vegan is the only way!
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