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Śramaņa, Vol 55, No. 10-12/October-December 2004
Medicine Production
Medicines are produced to save life, whether it is human life or animal life. So medicine production in itself is a form of nonviolence. But medicines are produced in the factories on the large scale for which labours are employed, but on the lower payment rather poor payment. In the factories of medicines labours are exploited just like the labours of other factories. Moreover artificial product of medicines is seen in practice. The artificial medicines always harm the ill-persons who take them. In stead of being recovered by medicines, from illness the patient dies after taking artificial medicines. In the medicine production different animals like dog, monkey etc. are utilised. All experiments of new medicines and injections are done on these animals. Even parts of their bodies are also used for making medicines. These all are forms of violence which may be removed as far as possible.
Productions of Drinks
Different types of drinks are produced by big companies in which exploitation of labours causes violence undoubtedly. Alchoholic drinks like wine are being produced too much for getting money. The fashion of taking alchoholic drinks is spreading day by day and it has become status symbol. A man is known as a man of modern status and fashionable when he takes wine openly, without any hesitation. But this alchoholization of society is resulting into corruptions and crimes by which Indian culture is being spoiled. There are other drinks which are known as cold drinks and are liked normally by all people. Though they are sweet and tasteful to take they are not suitable to human health they result into injurious activity.
The government is playing contradictory roles in the production of alchoholic drinks. On the one hand it declares the prohibition of taking the alchohol and on the other hand it allows producing alchoholic drinks and their selling in the open market.
Arms Productions
Human beings fear from beasts but it is astonishing enough that men fear from men also. Either on individual level or social
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