Thursday, 3 September 2015

Beef Ban Consequence

I will say what the BJP-RSS combine has done in Maharashtra by banning beef i.e. male cattle (bull and calf) slaughter is a tragedy. How is it a tragedy? I will draw the results from what I read an article in Times of India Paper today.
  • First they outlaw something which was prevalant since long time. So people who are involved in the trade lose their livelihood and source of income plus they do not provide alternate employment avenues.
  • They permit slaughter of buffaloes. They should realise that buffaloes are not plenty across the length and breadth of the country. Mainly buffaloes require plenty of water where they can escape the Indian heat. You must have heard "Gayi Bhais Pani Mein". It means for a long time the bhains i.e. the buffoalo will now remain in the water. So I had read somewhere that now farmers will find it prudent to switch from cows and bulls to buffaloes. So indirectly, the BJP and RSS is responsible for making bulls and cows (It makes no sense for a farmer to keep cows without the bulls) extinct in the Indian landscape. Farmer will find it more profitable to rear buffaloes. They are morally responsible for making bulls disappear from Indian landscape. It is same as making a species extinct in the wild.
  • During drought, farmers find it difficult to make ends meet. Already the farmers would be deep in debt. When they are unable to produce from the lands from where can they feed their farm animals when they and their families face hunger and starvation. And when Govt banned cattle trade they cannot sell those as well. So their cattle die either from hunger and starvation or they the farmers would be poisoning them. Certainly if a farmer can commit suicide by drinking poison what is a big deal to him to poison his cattle.
  • Again when the cattle die (more during drought), I am sure no one does "Antim Samskar" for them like humans. Basically in Hinduism the human corpse is burnt and destroyed and too much of wood is used. Again this wood can only be available after cutting of trees which is scarce anyways. And destruction of trees and forests lead to dry situation and drought plus floods both. Trees and forests provide the humidity for clouds to be sustained and cause precipitation or rains. Now for cattle they would be burying the dead instead of burning. Now what happens, the remains of cows will decompose and degrade and when rains happen, it would percolate down to ground water level and the same people will be pumping out or getting through tube wells. So the BJP-RSS motive of keeping the cow and bull as God is defeated because the decompose portion finds it way to the water table and gets consumed by humans.
  • Will a farmer watch his cattle die in front of his eyes, that itself may cause him to lose his mind and commit suicide or will he sell it to people who will find every possible use from the cattle and farmer will find it proud and remains of cattle will also find use. The farmer can make money. He knows his efforts would have borne the fruit. Rather than contaminating the environment, the meat would be eaten or exported. By products from cattle like Skin can be used in leather, bones would be used in fertilizer or medicine production (We do not know where all they can be used). I am only speculating. Which is better?
Like I said BJP-RSS cannot solve any problems in the nation. They can only create distraction, diversion and divide and rule and loot the country in the process.

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