Book Title: Why Abattoirs Abolition
Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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________________ SPECIES Cattle Buffalo Sheep Cattle Buffalo Goats Sheep 7 AVAILABILITY OF LIVESTOCK PER 1000 HUMANS IN BHARAT 1951 430 120 108 1961 400 117 92 1972 326 106 74 AVAILABILITY OF LIVESTOCK PER 1000 HUMAN IN THE WORLD Bharat Argentina Austria Columbia 278 1365 Bharat 2089 Vietnam 403 Somalia Nepal 284 917 Pakistan 130 Turkey 3264 New Zealand 23528 100 Bharat 136 Bharat 69 This situation is grim and will further deteriorate with mass slaughter induced by mechanised abattoirs. Sudan Ethiopia 677 523 Uruguay Austria 7879 7671 1982 278 100 69 398 Argentina 1083 Brazil 728 Thailand 125 Pakistan 387 South Africa 1022 Three, can man hardly human in the circumstances, exist in isolation? The answer - well supported by scientific evidence is NO. If animals greed, aren't we driving our own death knell and snatching the rights of living from our own future generations? Answer is YES, we are. Hygienic Conditions: Hygienic conditions for slaughter houses are one big laugh. Unless it is proposed to wipe the platform, clear and sweep the flood & mire after each animal is killed the ones that follow will be in the same pool. The good quality of floor, ample water supply and fly, proofing so benevolently cited are arguments in favour of the big bargain are facilities easily creatable in existing places if so modified & modernised at much less expense. However, meat as a food itself is unhealthy and beset with many hazards, which has been proved beyond a shadow of doubt and should be played down, in the interest of public health, by popularising other protein rich food instead of present policy to provide government patronage to the animal food industry and thereby endangering public health by encouraging consumption of animal food. Is stunned slaughter, not slaughter?: Will a murderer who kills his victim after stunning him be any less culpable under the law? No, it is presumed. There lies our answer to the moral side of stunning before slaughter. Animal pain which is sought to be lessened by stunning is an eye wash. What greater pain than the death can we inflict on the hapless & unsuspecting poor creatures? Don't the animals have a right to live on this earth granted them by God?: Why do we look upon the lesser species as food? Why can't we co-exist? What is after all so

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