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Engineers and experienced R&D team.” I looked into this, but when I followed this up, no factory of the given name, or even address, was found. To them I ask, do we make sure while buying that the varaks are machine made without the use of animal skin? The production of varak is done mainly in India, in Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, and Gaya (which is a Buddhist holy center), in Bihar, Kanpur, Meerut, and Varanasi (the holy city of Hindus) in Uttar Pradesh, and in Jaipur, Indore, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai. The leather booklets come to the production sites from the slaughterhouses of Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, and Ratlam. It is time we refused varak-covered mithai, fruit or paan. Mithai shops should be taken to court for not labeling their products non-vegetarian before selling them. I request everyone reading this article to strictly avoid the sweets that have silver varak on them. They are purely non-vegetarian. Other researchers, including the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) also confirms this, as do Beauty Without Cruelty” and Mrs. Maneka Gandhi's television program, “Heads and Tails.” In India, one estimate indicates that 275,000 kilos of varak is consumed annually. Thus, an average middle class Indian family of four consuming approximately100 kg of sweets per year for forty years will have consumed silver foil produced with the gut of three cows and one-tenth of a cowhide! In India 275 tons of silver is transformed into varak that utilizes the intestines of 516,000 cows and the calf leather of 17,200 animals each year. Can you imagine how many cattle and oxen are sacrificed for just a bit of taste? If you are surprised as I am, after reading this text please inform as many as possible so as to ensure that we don't unknowingly consume beef. Now you decide: is this behavior consistent with ahimsa?
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