FW: Varakh..The Source Of Silver Foil In Sweets

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FW: Varakh..The Source Of Silver Foil In Sweets

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FROM TARANGA MAGAZINEUSA, Aug 23 (VNN) — A couple of years ago, Indian

Airlines, the domestic air-carrier of India had issued instructions to its

suppliers to supply sweet without silverfoil called VARAKH. Do you know

why?Silver is widely used for various purposes in the market today. Silver

is

considered precious and its utility is enormous. The reason behind this is

that

silver reflects back 95% of the light energy that falls on it. The silver

foils

used for edible purposes is called VARAKH So what's so special about

VARAKH?This is what I would like to bring to your notice.If you keenly

observe

this VARAKH under a microscope don be perturbed if you happen to see traces

of

blood, stools and saliva of a cattle or ox.VARAKH is a silver foil and we

have

no second questions on this, but to prepare this VARAKH important parts of

the

CATTLE/OX is made use of.Intestines of Cattle/OX are obtained from the

slaughterhouse. This is obtained after butchering to death the cattle/ox for

beef and the part, which cannot be consumed: the intestines are pulled out

of

the animal and handed over to the manufacturers of VARAKH. Before handing

over

the intestines, they are washed in the slaughterhouse to get rid of the

blood

and other remains on these intestines in the limited facility that is

present

in the slaughterhouse. We are not sure how neatly this job is carried out.

Intestines are cut into small pieces and then are bound together as pages in

a

notebook.A silver block is placed in the middle of these bound intestines,

and

the whole thing is placed in a leather bag and sealed. Experts, who know how

to

make VARAKH, pound the bag with wooden sticks, till the entire bag flattens

out. The silver block would by this time be turned into silver foil. This

Silver foil would now be separated from the intestine pack and will be

placed

on paper.This is VARAKH, which reaches the market ready for use. Even

staunch

vegetarians, who shy away from egg, unknowingly consume

this as a part of sweet, pan and arecanut. Some unknowingly consume this

because of the additional taste that VARAKH provides.Now the question is

"Why

the intestines of the cattle/ox? Why not something else?" The reason behind

using the intestines of the cattle/ox for preparing the VARAKH is because of

the elasticity of the intestines. They do not get cut even after a severe

pounding.This aspect is brought out in the magazine "Beauty without cruelty"

and the Television show of Maneka Gandhi, "Heads and Tails". In India, on an

average an estimate indicates that 2,75,000 kilos of "VARAKH" is consumed.

Can

you estimate how many cattle/ox are sacrificed for just a bit of taste?If

you

are surprised as I am, after reading this article please inform as many as

possible so as to ensure that we unknowingly don't consume beef.I would like

to

thank the authors of this article in Taranga, a weekly magazine in Kannada,

for

enlightening us.Authors: Nafiza Joseph and Shailaja N

Raj.http://www.vnn.org/world/WD9908/WD23-4573.html

 

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