We Vegeterian People

Author(s): Atul Doshi
Publisher: Atul Doshi

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If animals could speak....
...hey...Vegetarian people... you may be able to understand it better... you are not consuming meat, but your increasing milk consumption habit is taking us to slaughterhouses.
Earlier, we used to serve you for our entire life and you were taking care of us until our natural deaths. We are still doing our work, but you have ignored your duty.
Now, you are calculating everything in terms of Profits and Losses as you have started becoming more and more civilised. You might have achieved economic progress, but have you achieved real happiness?
Is India so poor and needs foreign exchange by exporting our meat, leather and blood ?
You have increased milk consumption to improve your health, but you have spoilt the quality of our milk by forcibly giving us drugs and injections.
Your calculative mind also started mixing milk with so many dangerous substances and it further adulterated the milk. Many new serious diseases have engulfed mankind.
You human beings are very well aware that purity of mother's milk depends on quality of food intake of the mother. This rule applies for our milk too. The quality of milk is also affected by the 'mental status of the mother. Our newborn calves are separated from us because you need more milk. What will be the quality of milk obtained by inflicting pain and suffering to us? Please.. think over it.
Whatever is happening.. it's not good for us or for yourself... we hope that you will be able to understand our feelings and accept the truth.
Colour of our blood is the same as yours.... we feel pain and shed tears too... we too have feelings for love... Just as we have organs in our body as you have, we too have a 'soul... ...in short...we too are creations of God."
"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage".
~ Sri Aurobindo
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