Vijyanandsuri Swargarohan Shatabdi Granth

Author(s): Navinchandra Vijaymuni, Ramanlal C Shah, Shripal Jain
Publisher: Vijayanand Suri Sahitya Prakashan Foundation Pavagadh

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thus earning more and more profits are called 'layer-hens' whereas the cocks which are to be slaughtered for their meat are called 'Broiler chickens'. The barbaric method of rearing and slaughter of both of these birds might differ, but the degree of barbarism is still the same.
In the past, these hens and cocks used to wander freely in the farms in villages and used to kill the insects and pests which would be harmful to the agriculture crop and thus the balance of nature was maintained. This helped in safeguarding the materialistic self interest of mankind also. However, with the purpose of earning more and more profits out of production of eggs, the modern man locked these birds around the year 1940 and turned them into means of commercial production'. In those days the hen used to lay about 2 dozen eggs in a year in natural course. As against this, by tampering with gene of these birds they are now made to lay about 300 eggs in a year. Possibly only a woman would understand the cruelty and torture involved in forcing any female creature to give birth to its offspring, about 12 to 13 times more compared to its natural capacity. For the sake of comparison, if we imagine that a human famale capable of giving birth to one child in a year, is made to give birth to 12 children in a year by genetically manipulating her reproduction process, what will be the condition of such woman ? The bird has to undergo a much more torturous process.
Instead of taking strong steps to stop all this barbarism practised in these poultry factories, (it is a shame to describe them as 'farms'), the Government rewards this barbarism by giving rebate of 33% on Income Tax and also provides many other facilities and concessions. What can be more shameful than this state of affairs ! U/S 11 (E) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, which is enacted by the Government of India itself,
ce to keep an animal or a bird in a cage where it is unable to move about in reasonably comfortable way. However, today's affluent butchers who run these poultry slaughter houses and spend crores of rupees on advertisements for promoting eggs, keep too many birds in each cage and the IDBI, IFCI, ICICI and SBI give loans worth crores of Rupees for carrying on these activities of committing serious offences.
The cocks and hens are so 'light-sensitive compared to other birds, that much before the sun-rise, they start their trumpeting even in pre-dawn period. This light sensitiveness of these birds is exploited by keeping them
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