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Innumerable rallies & demonstrations are being organised in the country, but no movement so far has come up with regard to meat export & slaughtering of animals cruelly. Gandhians, religious leaders and a very small section of elderly people of the society join in this movement, but there is not remotest trace of the youth! Hence it is difficult to get solution in democratic Government till the future generation gets awakened.
The country, which acquired freedom by walking on the path shown by Gandhi and made plan of absorbing PANCHASHEEL by adopting disarmament, its leaders should have proclaimed on very first day that all the CREATURES IN WATER. IN THE SKY AND ON THE EARTH ARE THERE, ON THE SOIL OF BHARAT WILL BE GIVEN PROTECTION. The Government will not do business of meat according to our ancient tradition. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had staunchly opposed slaughter house to be founded in Lahore during the freedom movement. He had said that, “I oppose slaughter house, I do not appraise at all the scene where the crows, vultures & hawks are moving around in the sky and where groups of dogs may be embarking on bones! Cattle is the wealth of our nation. I can never tolerate its destroyal..!
The thoughts which Jawaharlalji had nourished before the independence, know not where & how they are lost? He lead the country as Prime Minister for 17 years, but the post-scene thereafter is tremendously hair-raising. The chain of ultra-modern slaughter houses, which commenced from 1947, has not stopped even till today! For getting foreign exchange, when the Government of Bharat started glancing at the precious things of the nation, its very first sight reached unto the cattle wealth of the country. The slaughterers & butchers sitting in that administration, showed only one remedy to the then Governments that the Government can earn crores of dollars by exporting meat! Since then neither the policy, nor the evil intention of the Government is changed! The flow of meat is going on in the form of export and the flow of dollars is coming towards the soil of Bharat!
In 1947, the number of butchers was only 60000, which has now increased to around 5 Crore! That too in the situation where ultra-modern machines have been installed and the proportion of workers in which, does not remain to be too much
As per the information available from Mumbai's Police Department, there were 36000 slaughter houses in the country until 1995. Out of these all, five were equipped with extremely ultra-modern machines and 24 were export-oriented units. In the last ten years, then number of these extremely ultra-modern slaughter houses grew from five to twenty five! What a tragic most & terribly tremendous growth is this?
The much publicised Al-Kabeer Export Ltd, majority of owners of which belong to such communities, which remain away even from uttering the name of meat, did not give up its heinous meanness, in spite of stiff & tremendous oppositions & movements against it. Paradoxically, on Mahathma Gandhiji's martyrdom day of 30th January 1989, itself, they applied for permission to set up this gigantic modern
