The cow is sacred to Hindus. She is revered as a mother and worshipped for the many graces we obtain from her. The illegal slaughter of cows in big cities and their illegal transportation beyond provincial boundaries must be stopped.
KERALA IS popularly known as “God’s own Country”. However it seems barbarity doesn’t respect nomenclature. Cow slaughter is banned in many parts of our country except in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and the north eastern states. Cows are routinely shipped to these states for slaughter, even though it is illegal to transport cows for slaughter across provincial borders.
Many illegal private slaughter houses also operate in big cities such as Mumbai. While there are approximately 3,600 slaughterhouses operating legally in India, there are estimated to be over 30,000 illegal slaughter houses. The efforts to close them down have so far been largely unsuccessful. Even more distressing than these illegal activities is the extremely cruel way in which bulls and cows are transported for slaughter. Each truck carries 30-50 cows. They are packed so closely together that more than half must surely suffocate before they even reach the slaughter houses. I have witnessed this often on NH 47, when trucks full of cattle come from Tamil Nadu to Kerala.
The Central Government must take immediate action against this illegal and cruel transport under provisions of the Animal Cruelty Act and section 153 A of the IPC.
.Please boycott Kerala for its dismal animal abuse history. A global campaign has been launched to convince the US State Department also. Behind the beauty of lush green nature, thrives the savage uncivilized barbaric psyche. Says one of the State's best known writers, Paul Zacharia. "Where in the world is the elephant worst treated? The honest and straight answer is Kerala". Kerala also has India's highest suicides, drunkards, sexual perverts, and mentally deranged. Claim to be Civilized!!!
.If 30,000 (maybe many more) abattoirs operate illegally and fatten the purse of unscrupulous authorities implementing rules, as against 3600 licensed ones, it is because of ridiculous laws existing in most States. These laws implement a bone-brained provision in the anti-people constitution whose so called fathers hailed from self-appointed high-caste pundits of the medieval society. It reflects their social customs and rabid fads decrees that some 5 billion people in the world who eat beef to be cannibals! They authorize the State to rob individuals of the 'democratic nation' of their personal liberty in choice of food/drink. Of course, nobody prevents the pundits from revering the cow or pig or whatever. But, when they enact laws to ban consumption of beef, meat, fish or eggs, they will only invite rejection by people. Transportation of cows for slaughter cannot just be wished away. If transportation itself is supposed to break the law, necessitating bribes to minions of the State, no wonder the transporter cuts corners that inflicts cruelty to the cargo. Apart from the poor animals, victims of the ludicrous law is the poor farmer who is prevented from disposing off unproductive cattle and obtaining a fair price. Most of them are condemned as Sudras and are made to pay to stoke the well-to-do pundits' moral fancy.