Kamdhenu The Wish Cow

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

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KAMADHENU
bull useless and driven it straight to the slaughterhouse, the cow will also be marched to the slaughterhouse if we stop drinking its milk or do not let it procreate and render it useless.
Those who do not drink milk claiming it is cow's blood thus believing themselves to be excellent vegetarians are unaware that the cows will then be flocked to the slaughterhouses or the young born female calves would be killed instantly.
With the advent of tractors the ox was rendered useless and then million of oxen were sent to the slaughterhouses. Do we want the same fate to befall the cow?
Every being is said to have a previous birth. To prove this point the philosophers point out the fact as to how a just born baby is aware of the act of suckling from the breast. Whoever taught them to do so? Nobody. It does so on its own as it remembers the same act from its previous birth. Every baby drinks the mother's milk soon after birth.
Now the question that arises is if milk were to be blood, then has every human drunk mother's blood soon after birth? How can we say so?
Of course, it may be true that some mothers from the western civilisation may not be breast-feeding their children. But now even they have begun breast-feeding since scientists have proved after research that those women who do not breast-feed stand a high risk of contracting breast cancer.
If a baby receives breast milk in the early months, its physical growth is excellent.
Mothers in the olden days used to say, "Son!
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