mrzed
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Have any of you commenting on the cows ever been to India?
The 'cows' you see in the pictures are mostly bulls. Yes, they are venerated in India, and mostly protected from slaughter, but they are protected primarily as providers of plenty. So narrow a view to think the only way for a beast to feed us is to eat its (admittedly tasty) flesh. You can get more from a cow such as:
- milk
- butter
- fertilizer
- labour (most males are castrated and used to pull ploughs and carts)
- fuel (rural indians still use dried dung as cooking fuel - inefficient though that is)
The large majority of cows in India are providing these services in exchange for their farts. After providing all this, most Indians (the Hindus) feel that killing the creature is wrong. Isn't calling this out in the face of feedlot beef to fill the already overfed mouths of the world's richest a little . . . rich?
The 'cows' you see in the pictures are mostly bulls. Yes, they are venerated in India, and mostly protected from slaughter, but they are protected primarily as providers of plenty. So narrow a view to think the only way for a beast to feed us is to eat its (admittedly tasty) flesh. You can get more from a cow such as:
- milk
- butter
- fertilizer
- labour (most males are castrated and used to pull ploughs and carts)
- fuel (rural indians still use dried dung as cooking fuel - inefficient though that is)
The large majority of cows in India are providing these services in exchange for their farts. After providing all this, most Indians (the Hindus) feel that killing the creature is wrong. Isn't calling this out in the face of feedlot beef to fill the already overfed mouths of the world's richest a little . . . rich?