Vijyanandsuri Swargarohan Shatabdi Granth

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

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broilers which are raised for chicken are killed in about 5 to 7 weeks. If we go through the project report of a large hatchery set up near Ahmednagar, we will come to know how the living creatures are treated like commodities. Like various inputs of raw materials passing on a fast moving conveyor belt in a factory. In this hatchery the live birds pass on the conveyor belt in a position hanging upside down at a speed of 1000 birds per hour. To achieve perfect bleeding they are given a mild electric shock to kill them by 'Halal' (single) cut and their blood also is collected in a tray, because the blood also has to be used. The corpses of these dead birds are then dipped into boiling water and their feathers are removed by a plucking machine. Then their intestines are removed and the meat which is so prepared is supplied to the Five Star Hotels of Bombay or the Flight Kitchens of Indian Airlines or the Canteens of large companies.
People serving ice-cream with great joy on occasions like birthdays, marriages and engagements, people who stop the crying of their children by giving them a packet of biscuit or people using bread and shampoo in their day to day life may not be knowing that these and so many such other things may contain eggs.
The poor birds in these concentration camps are waiting for people who can save them by challenging the vested interest lobby engaged in Poultry industry and the government which provides assistance and protection to such activity, to stop this activity, which is inexcusalbe not only from the religious angle but is also a blot on the rich civilisation of mankind.
An Institution called Chickens Lib' (P.O. Box 2, Holmfirth, Huddersfield - HD7 1QT, U.K.) in England has been able to obtain the support of people in fighting against various barbaric practices in the hatcheries. This has happened in a country like Britain which is not averse to meat eating. Then is it not possible to stop such barbaric activity in a country like ours which is full of the feeling of compassion, kindness and mercy towards all living beings?
As long as this barbarism is in its primary stage in our country, we might be able to stop it by preventing the Governmental and non-governmental encouragement to this activity. If the enlightened citizens do not act at this stage, on one hand our text books will be having poetries on birds and on the other hand the entire country will be full of
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