Why Abattoirs Abolition

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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WHAT IS THE PRIME NECESSITY OF OUR COUNTRY?
ABATTOIRS OR AGRICULTURE, FOOD, MILK, MANURE & CULTURE?
When the intellectual elite (whether with wasted interest or otherwise) is out to think and speak on the necessity of modern abattoir, it is a welcome sign if their motive is open, unbiased & honest. It is presumed that if they have just, balanced, right thinking & perspective, they will not hesitate in accepting the first & foremost necessity of in-depth study of the subject and accept the factual truth. This pre-requisite could not and should be overlooked.
The first question comes before us asking: WHY DO WE NEED ABATTOIRS? MODERN ABATTOIRS?
They say, for FOOD, HYGIENIC FOOD, for MEAT-EATING people's requirement, etc, etc (wisely & seemingly they do not say openly that they are for export & money minting at the cost of the country's agriculture, rural economy, natural food, milk, manure, environment, human culture and our country's mainstream born compassion). Maybe, they need them for hygienic meat food only; let us take this for granted for argument, but if so, at what cost, this 'created & projected' necessity?, and whether is it prime necessity?, even so, how is it justified?
Does the justification necessitate abattoirs in this economically poor, culturally rich & agriculturally fertile but unluckily neglected country? Does our intelligentsia thinking, studies & planning has overall root in this country's historical, environmental, spiritual, cultural & agricultural background and mainstream or it ponders over only on the borrowed western thinking unsuitable to our conditions?
Several questions arise, but let us examine at a glance only a few important ones. Not only WHY, but it is important to study, do we need abattoirs - modern or whatsoever - AT ALL!
It were the foreign rulers - the Britishers - who as a systematic planning, had started deserting forests, weakening villages & agriculture and destroying our cattle wealth by engineering slaughter and slaughter houses (common or modern). After independence, our brain-washed educated class sitting in furnished offices away from the villages, masses and real knowledge of practical & factual Bharatiya conditions went on dreaming and planning in the footsteps of the foreign rulers of foreign education. They hardly cultivated inquisitiveness to go into indepth studies of original Bharatiya agricultural systems on one hand and on the spot actual observation of prevailing Bharatiya rural, urban & environmental conditions. on the other. Politicians & Governments (this or that party) and vested interests employed such so called educated 'expects & technocrats' for planning & execution to fulfil their motives of whimsical & utopian type of money-making by setting up modern abattoirs, first of all for exports and earning foreign exchange and starting dairy industries on FOREIGN TYPE OF SET UPS, which can only be suitable PARTLY in Bharatiya conditions.