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causes rottenness of crops like potato before they are brought above land. Even after putting into cold restoragc thcy loose their healthy clements and becomc useless. More over the expected amount of crops is not attained and that fails to fulfil the necessary demands.
4) Productions of Milk and Curd - Milk and curd are important in vegetarian diets. Though these are classified as vegetarian diets, their productions are injurious. The proper treatments are not paid to the animals like cows, buffalos etc. from which milk is attained.
a) Food not sufficient - There are many persons who take milk from cows and busfalos but they do not give them sufficient food, particularly in Varanasi which is known as religious place, cows arc lest frcc to move in streets and on roads after milking them. They cat papers, dirty cloths and rollen things thrown by the sides of roads. Simply at the time of milking they get some proper food and that is only for the time when they are found able to give milk, otherwise no food is given by their tamers and they (cows) have shelters in streets and open fields.
b) No Medicine - No medicine is given to the animals like cows and buffalos when they become ill. It is very common feeling that animals should be treated as an animal not as human beings though they are strong helpers of human beings. The Hindu saint Tulsidas has declared that animals are worthy to be tortured (Tāraņa ke Adhikārī)
c) Injurious way of Milking - Human Beings never tolerate participations of some other persons in their mother's milk. But they, while milking cows and buffalos, forget that these poor animals have also their issues which have full right on their mother's milk. The issues of cows and buffalos even die without getting proper quantities of their mother's milk. The business minded persons kill them knowingly by paying them poor nourishment.
Moreover, when cows and buffalos do not give milk naturally, they are injected cruelly twice in a day so that they may be ready for milking. It is the scientific method of milking through which animals
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