We Vegeterian People

Author(s): Atul Doshi
Publisher: Atul Doshi

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5. Animal cruelty-free products... do we know these?
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It is a fact that revenue from leather and other body parts of animals constitutes a very high portion of income for meat industry. This has provided a huge boost to the meat industry. • Millions of animals are killed to make available various products (which
are not our basic necessity) like cosmetics, soaps, tooth pastes,
biscuits, bakery products, jams, CRUEL
cheeses, chocolates, etc. These
products contains animal COSMETICS
ingredients like bone powder,
gelatin, animal fat (mutton tallow), eggs, calf rennet (part of stomach of calf), etc.
• Thousands of animals/birds are tortured by pharmasecutical companies for medicine testing. They also use animal ingredients in medicines.
• 1500 Silk moths (resham kida) are boiled alive & killed to
produce just 100 gram of silk. • Varakh used in Temple and for Sweets are made up of Calf skin.
• Too much pain is inflicted upon animals for Woollen, Fur, Hair brush, Paint brush, etc. Cruel techniques are being used to extract their hair which gives them immense pain and they very often die in this process.
• Elephants are treated very badly for Ivory and many a times elephants are killed for Ivory.
• Pearls are derived by killing fish.
Eye Donation-Body Donation: Very few people think of donating their body or eyes after their death, but each and every body part of animals is forcefully donated even while they are alive.
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