Vijyanandsuri Swargarohan Shatabdi Granth

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

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under artificial light for 18 to 23 hours in a day so that they are made to give more and more eggs. The floor of their cage is also made of wire mesh and hence neither can they sit comfortably nor sleep in their cage. On the other hand, these innocent birds are given all sorts of hormones and anti-biotics to prevent them from falling sick from various diseases which arise due to such artificial breeding, so that the hens give more and more eggs and the broiler chickens become heavier in weight.
Tormented by tortures from all sides, these birds live under tremendous mental tension and start fighting with other birds in the cage. They hurt each other with their beaks. But such infighting cannot be afforded by these butchers, who call themselves farmers or industrialists, because it affects their profits. And hence they have found out a solution to this fighting also. They noticed that these birds hurt each other with their beaks because they have beak. What if they do not have beaks? and So, these butchers now cut off the beaks of the tender birds. This process of cutting off beaks is so cruel that even the scientists say that the pain in cutting off the beaks is similar to the pain of cutting tender skin under our nail.
The logic (or the illogic) behind giving various income tax reliefs and subsidy to this pernicious activity, which is sought to be described as trade, industry or farming, is that it provides employment to people. The day Godse killed Gandhiji, our Government abandoned khadi and village industry. If these are revived again, we can give employment to thousand times more people than those who earn their living from poultry. However, let us keep the employment angle also in mind. The surprising fact is that the new large scale poultry or broiler farms (slaughter houses) which are being set up now, are so highly mechanised that the question of providing additional employment does not arise at all. On the contrary it will snatch away the employment of those small time butchers and farmers who earn their living by slaughtering these birds on samll scale. Thus the excuse of providing the employment also proves to be a very weak ground for providing tax rebates and various concessions to these large butchers to set up large mechanised poultry farms.
If a cock or a hen is allowed to live its natural life, they can easily live for 6-7 years. But now a hen is made to lay eggs when it is only 18 to 20 weeks old and after exploiting maximum possible eggs, it is killed. The
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