Animal 0 Posté(e) le 22 mars 2009 Cows and their offspring on the long forced march from auction in Tamil Nadu to slaughter in Kerala... ...collapse on the way, are beaten and have hot chili peppers rubbed into their eyes to make them get up. If they don't, they are piled into trucks... INDIA’S HOLY COW: THE SACRED AND THE SUFFERING. BY Dr. Michael W. Fox Introduction India has the largest concentration of livestock in the world,(250-300 million cattle, 60 million water buffalo, 120 million goats, and 40 million sheep), having one-third of the world's cattle on approximately 3 percent of the world's land area. India is the world's second largest milk producer, with over half its milk coming from buffalo. Seventy-six percent of Indian people are rural, living in some 600,000 villages. The economic and social values of cattle are so great that cattle have long been seen as religious symbols and are regarded as sacred. .... pour lire la suite: http://tedeboy.tripod.com/drmichaelwfox/id47.html Partager ce message Lien à poster Partager sur d’autres sites
