Judgement Dealing With Subject Of Slaughter Of Animals In Light Of Indian Constitution

SR No.: 269193
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: C K Chaturvedi
Publisher: Akhil Bharat Krishi Go Seva Sangh
Total Pages: 40
Language: English
Classification: Article
File Size: 8 MB

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the same place to harvest his crops. The first plants to be successfully grown were Wheat and Barley, which were good for feed and Stalks provided fodder for animals.
60. The earliest animals to be domesticated were goals, pigs sheep and cattle and of course, dogs. According to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, agriculture in the form of settled cultivation in this country. probably began over 7000 years ago, in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Due to the diversity of soil and climate, of the country and endowed with rich flora and fauna, India become one of the early centres of domestication of several important crops including, rice. Before the beginning of settled cultivation, India was a predominantly pasteral country. With crop husbandry and mixed farming, agriculture and animal husbandry went hand in hand.
61. Before the settled cultivation animals were the prime source of food. This was indeed a necessity of time, and a need based killing. In exercise of instinct of self preservation, and man used violence and force for the need. With the advent of civilisation man started managing plant based foods and today agriculture produce all over the world is the main, principal source of food. Intensive farming and increasing the crop yields has assumed the dimension of a technology. Though, vegetables replaced animals to a large extent as a food, selective poaching and hunting continued with respectable words as 'game' and prize for the 'catch'. Slowly, what was once a food itself, camo down as a food item and a delicacy in the menu. Scientific eyes lookod for organic components of food. They came to conclusion that as atom is made of protons, neutrons and electrons, the food is made up of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins etc. Therefore, the classifications of food came to be characterized by the value of quantum of various components of food. Next, came tho comparison of various items of food which could provide these basic elements, to get the nutritivo value. Today animal protein has come to be integrated with the notion of balanced diet in term of components of food, and practice of getting protein from animals has come to stay, other vegetables based sources of protein, or milk though equally rich in basic elements are considered inferior. Today food is classified as vegetarian or non-vegetarian, in homes, houses, restaurants, platforms, and everywhere. Stalo guests are served with delicacies of their choice, and State run hotels, too. cater to the need of non-vegetarian food, on demand.
62. Despite the fact that primitive conditions of living no longer exist, except in deep interiors or tribal areas, where usual supply of agriculture produce is not possible, the stone age habits continue, in the name of food value of animals, though food values in other foods, compares favourably well with these animal based products. The food habits get innocently passed to younger generations, in family. The result of all this is that people do not look beyond the food and close eyes to an cnvironinentally destructive practice, of killings and by doing yiolence to innocent creatures, who bubble with same form of life as human beings and there is clearly unjustified killings today, when enough of food exists; and conditions of Life competing with life for existence are not available. There exist today dichotomy of perspective of those who choose the animals as food so long animal products are available in that form on shelves in market, the purchasers, wash their hands off the compunctions in killing by saying that they have not killed the animals, though they. generally agree that it is wrong to kill animals and they pass responsibility to butcher, whose profession it is to slaughter the animals. It if often not realised that it is the demand at the shelf that promotes the killing, which is based on profit making activity.
63. The slaughtering of animals involve unparallel violence and cruelty to life, in them, which can't be described sufficiently by words, such as barbaric or crude