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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"Only sheeps goals pigs are transported in motorized, trucks, caltio and bullaloos are tied in two's and fours and marchod mile after mile to distant gallows. During the last lap of their journey on man's earth, they do not qualify for food, waler or oven rest. Cornbined with this the cruel treatment meted out to them affect the quality and commercial value of hides and skins.............. (emphasis suppliod)
Slaughter methods presently in vogue can be described only as crude and barbaric. in the present practice, the animals brain is under great stress due to fear and pain resulting to loss of valuable hormones. Twisting, rolling and being thrown and tossed about on the rough, unhewn floor damage its skin. From the moment, the animal is slated for slaughter, want on violence is inflicted on it till its death. As a preparation about 20 animals are thrown down and their legs tied up. While assistants clamp tho animal down into position, butchers take turns cutting throats one by one. The carcasses are dragged from place to place and ripped open and flayed. Frightened by their horrifying struggle to wriggle out, the other terror stricken animals panic to free themselves. They scream and wail, nervously bestirring with urino, dung and blood of the slain animals. Thus writhing in pain, they thrash about in this modley of filth, while other wait for their turn to come. Such gruesome scenes are not visualised even in the conventional pictures of hell."
64. The above description is not one of exaggeration or invention, but is in the words of N.S. Ramaswamy, who is Chairman of an Expert Committee appointed by Govt. of India. for development of meat industry.
65. It is these happenings to the innocent animals, which creates different reactions in india and Western world. While the Western countries see solution to these horrifying situations, by recommending stunnings of animals by electric shocks, and recommend modern slaughter houses, where machines takes over most of the jobs, and the Western reaction does not take congnizance of the life in animals at par with life in human beings, but takes the animal'as another chattel, on the basis of cultural thinking which seeks to win nature, by struggle. The Eastern world in India, on the other hand, has a culture based on harmony with nature and co-existence with the natural world. This harmony view does not envison such violent, relations with animals. Our culture makes provision for compassion as Dharma. The feeling of unity with all lives spontaneously creates a spirit of reverence for all forms earnestly seek their own security. The main instincts function equally in human and subhuman beings. It is, therefore, sometime said that it is beneath man's dignity to torture or destroy living things for food.
66. With this identity of life and respect for life arises a legal question whether the conditions or situations in which man sanctions deprivation of human life, can be much different for the animals, the subhuman. Under what conditions the life can be wiped out of animals?
67. It is, indeed unfortunate that forgetting Indian Culture, and inconsistent with that, Dr. N.S. Ramaswamy recommends Captive Bolt Pistols and Electric Stunners and recommends an expenditure of Rs. 5 crores in distributing such Pistols to all the Slaughter Houses
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