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Oh My India...what A Transformed Nation! Awake - Arise
-Shri Surendra M. Mehta
We the people of India who believe in Non-violence (Ahimsa)' Compassion, Animal welfare, our culture and values, strongly object to the government's policy of increasing slaughter of animals, birds, creatures of water and export of meat and slaughter products to earn foreign exchange.
We strongly protest against this policy and request that government should withdraw all reliefs in taxation and subsidy on this bloody business of slaughter - aqua-culture and export of their products.
Cruelty, killing, slaughter, looting, dacoity, terrorism, drug trafficking, smuggling etc. are crimes against humanity and creatures. They are not a legalised profession, business or trade under our Constitution and these should not be supported in anyway by government or the people.
People have lost their commonsense and have become greedy to invest in shares of companies which carry out such activities of cruelty, killing of creatures and export their product of meat, eggs, aquaculture, leather and leather products etc. It is so painful to find many believers and strict followers of Ahimsa investing their funds in such shares without a thought just for the sake of some profit. It is requested that every investor who cares for our culture should refer to the booklet recently brought out by Beauty Without Cruelty —“The Investment Guide" and to see that such shares are not supported. This guide is available with Indian Vegetarian Congress and with the publisher of Beauty Without Cruelty (4, Prince of Wales Drive, Wanowrie, Poona — 411 040. Tel. (0212) 664321 (For a donation of Rs. 25- including postage). Beauty Without Cruelty deserves all praise for this effort.
Our religious leaders should advise their followers against such investments. This will be one way of controlling or slowing down of these bloody business.
There is lot of illegal slaughter going on in the country and the govenment is aware of it but is closing its eyes and ears for reasons known to them and public have lost their courgae to protest collectively to stop them as they are not given protection by the Government as probably they are co-shares in profits from these henious acts. This illegal slaughter cannot continue all over India without the connivance of the law preserves! The result is more crimes, environment failures, degradation of soil, polluted water and air.
Mother earth will not spare such crimes for long and the nature will strike back through major catastrophes like floods, earth quakes, cylones, draughts and large scale serious illnesses etc.
Let us plead before our leaders, the rulers, the MP's, the legislators to awake. There is enough of everything for the need of our people but certainly not for our greed, destruction and waste.
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