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stopped all over the world, but trade of ivory continus at global level inspite of the ban. Ivory collector can take the tusks of a dead elephant but he intentionally kills by various methods and declares it as dead because people want ivory made materials. None of the items listed above are essential. That's why maneka talks of 'Beauty without destruction'. That's why Lord Mahavira restricted not to get into this Danta vāṇijya which initiates terrible harm to the animal species and there by Jain concept of interdependence i.e. our very survival is basically dependent upon the survival of the immobile & mobile beings.
7. Rasa Vāṇijya:- (Trade in alcohol and forbidden food stuff like milk, curd, butter, meat etc.) From the Avasyaka curni it would seem that originally the reference here was to manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol, which is described as leading to brawling, squabbling and murder.21 But for Hemacandra rasa in the sense of alcohol becomes an upalaksana to include honey, fat (obtained from meat), and butter, in other words the substances prohibited under the mula-guna category.22 A curious question arises what is the reason behind the restriction of this trade. Intake of alcohol is forbidden under seven evil habits in Jainism as it demolishes the discretion of the human society. Although it is harmful for health but government is encouraging such profession as this produces heavy-income. But causes severe water and air pollution. Latest research declares that for the preservation of dairy products water exploitation is needed. Maneka Gandhi writes in her book 'Head and Tails' that In India the milk and meat industries are responsible for huge amount of desertification. Each goat eats Rs. 60,000 Rupees of national property in the form at ground covering grass and young tree shoot.23 By reading the first chapter "Milk, Meat and Animal violence" by Maneka, our notion regarding the dairy products and meat that it gives a lot of protein and iron completely changes. She says vegetables are the best source of iron. For instance 50 gallons of milk are the equivalent of one bowl of spinach.24 Even Lord Mahavira, propounder of Ṣadjīvanikāya said that meat-eating is the one of the cause of taking birth in the hell infernal realm. Even in this birth, research declares that four lakh people in India die out of meat-eating every year through heart disease, colon cancer or by kidney failures.25 For getting maximum milk at minimum cost oxytocin in an injection- a powerful drug is injected into the cow twcie a day by milkmen in the mistaken notion that it produces extra milk. Maneka says, this oxytocin affects not only the cows it filters into the milk. It is considered particularly harmful for the eyes in the
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