Acharya Prashant: If all those who oppose beef and cow slaughter would really know that the beef industry and the dairy industry are deeply interrelated, would they still be milk lovers? The majority of opposition to beef in India comes from those who love milk. ThatтАЩs very, very strange.
Look at all those who are demonstrating on the roads against beef. In one of the important states, Maharashtra, beef has just been recently banned. So, if you are found slaughtering a cow in Maharashtra, you would be jailed and fined or both. ThatтАЩs wonderful, but stupid because you do not know that the beef comes from the same cattle that was previously used to fulfill your milk needs and farm needs. The cattle that are slaughtered do not drop from the sky; they are the same cattle that were previously there in the dairies or in the fields for the sake of human welfare and human consumption.
We consume the cow twice. Firstly, when we use it for milk, for energy in the farm, the bull, that is, the ox. And secondly, when it can no longer provide us with labor or milk, then we sell it off so that it may get slaughtered.
When there was a ban on beef slaughter, there was a major opposition by a segment of farmers. They said that тАЬIf we cannot sell the oxen for slaughter, what do we do with them? They are not useful in the fields as they are old now. And after twelve or thirteen years of age, the animal is no longer useful in the fields. So, what to do with it? Keep it and feed it? And if we feed it, then our children will starve. So, we have to sell it to the butcher. We have to sell it to the one who would help us exploit it a little more.тАЭ
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