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Bovine salughter and bird flu/236
it, the beef-industry is reported to be of four billion pounds, or equal to 22,400 crores of a rupees approximately or even more. Now owing to price rise it may have doubled.
The root cause of all this is, the pandering to the palate, of using beef as food derived through butchery. Great thinkers like Bernard shaw, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley have contributed much to the cause of vegetarianism but the habits die hard and the message is yet to reach vast sections of population. Otherwise cattle farming would not have degenerated into mainly a 'beefindustry' bereft of all human values from beginning to the end as butchery and beef go together. Enormous cruelty is involved in killing such a big animal as cow. The cows are fed with offal i.e. sheep brain affected by such disease. There is crisis in beef industry and buyers shun it. The prices of beef have crashed, although B.S.E. was there for about last twenty months wihtout taking epidemic form in human beings showing doubtful connection of transmission.
Lord Mahaveer's words are prophetic, "It is none else also than thyself, when you intend destroying it". One shudders to think if one would also resort to such ruthlessness on sample checking of AID's in humanbeings. Nature's laws are retributive. This industry is no exception to Malthusian checks. When self-restraint is loosened positive-checks are bound to apply. "Slaughters for profits, madly followed by salughters for survival". This vicious circle should end. Already two world wars have taken their tolls of human misery mainly there. The world cannot afford any more. It is said that even if a day's
