Kamdhenu The Wish Cow

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Ahimsa Research Foundation

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S KAMADHENU
adopting Bio-farming makes the soil more fertile. Japanese farmers have experimented successfully with ancient Indian farming techniques and now believe that rather than chemical fertilizers, the manure from cows and bullocks and other animals makes the soil more fertile, improves the produce and provides the necessary vitamins through several nutrients.
But with us the fodder meant for animals is eaten away by politicians while the foreign food-chain store Macdonalds is making the meat of cows and bullocks easily available. If the flour for chapatis coming from Maxmillan is mixed with fish powder it should not be surprising. The GATT treaty and the Patents treaty are not only a danger to our economy but also to our life itself. The patents on Neem and Basmati Rice are recent experiences.
Activities based on violence take away the conscience of humans. Fish farming, Poultry farms or the mechanised slaughter houses are activities that make a tremendous waste of water and at the same time lead to ecological imbalance.
We do not have any right to annihilate that life which we cannot create.
Once while on a tour abroad, Swami Vivekanand was shown around a mechanised slaughter house. A buffalo was slaughter and then cut to pieces and packed into several small containers in a jiffy and placed before him. The Directors of the slaughter house were eagerly awaiting a word of praise from Swamiji. But alas! What Swamiji said was altogether unexpected. "I shall appreciate your effort if you can now restore a live buffalo out of these containers with the same ease!"