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________________ Use More Meat & Leather Use More Dairy Products Within 6 months Slaughter Houses Male Calves More Cows Female Calves End of Milking Life 5-7 Years Vicious life cycle of a Cow and her Children come as a surprise to Jains who have always believed cows to be vegetarian animal. This was once the case, but not anymore. During its milking life, cows are fed and injected with many medicines and hormones, thus practically making milk poisonous for human consumption. And so we see: milk production and consumption has a very strong himsa footprint to five-sensed animals. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. COWS' MILK SOLD IN THE USA IS NOT VEGETARIAN. By Tejas Shah, Toronto (Canada): “In the USA (also in Canada) most milk sold in stores is fortified with Vitamin D3. Upon further research I found that Vitamin D3 is derived from animal sources, thus making it non-vegetarian. I am surprised to learn this through my own research rather. I understand there is debate on whether cows' milk (not fortified with D3) An Ahimsa Crisis: You Decide 107
SR No.007754
Book TitleAhimsa Crisis You Decide
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorSulekh C Jain
PublisherPrakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year2016
Total Pages328
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English, D000, & D005
File Size6 MB
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