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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68. What our late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, said regarding wildlife of India, is also true for other animals. He said:
"I wonder sometimes what these animals and birds think of man and how they would describe him if they had the capacity to do so. I rather doubt if their description would be very complimentary to man. In spite of our culture and civilisation, in many ways man continues to be not only wild but more dangerous than the any of the so called Wild Animals."(Reference B.K. Tikader "Wild Life of India")
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On our part, are we adults not guilty of environmentally irresponsible behaviour, when the children at right initial stages of education are told to learn the edicts of Ashoka the Great, Buddha and Mahavir, to respect life and to have love for animals, on the one hand; while on the other hand they are made to learn that balanced diet consists of animal proteins and such facts are mentioned in the text books often. Like wise the 3rd or 4th standard books speak of teeth and jaws of flesh eating animals and plant eating animals and it is told that human teeth structure resembles to those of latter ones. Such duplicity in practice and precept, is often unable to answer the pure simple questions asked by younger ones in their thirst and curiosity to harmonize the opposites. Gandhi, Budha and Mahavir and many others are remembered annually for ritual sake, but their views are left to be discarded or accepted at wish. It is like paying respect to the shadow, and insulting the Corpus Body. It is often told to the young ones that animals are our friends and useful to man, but at the dining tables and hotels and restaurants where elders reach out for animal product, truth and respect for animals is kept at distance and not talked. These environmentally unfriendly habits go down the generation in an unconscious manner.
This is what a poem by G.F. Alexander in a 4th standard book "New Radiant Readers" says of creatures.
GOD MADE THEM ALL
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The good God made them all.
Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings.
The purple headed mountain, The river running by,
The morning and the sunset,
That brighten up the sky.
The tall trees in the greenwood, The pleasant summer sun, The ripe fruit in the garden, He made than every one.
He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell. How great is GOD Almighty, Who has made all things well.
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