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Manoram Caitanya (das) JPS (Madras - IN)

15-Jun-99 05:12

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Here is an awful and horrible note

Read it . it is disgusting

SOURCE OF SILVER FOIL USED IN SWEETS

 

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 ??? Can't we follow this example ???

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. Silver

foils are also used in sweets, arecanut and pan in India. 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. Are you

surprised, as I was when I read this? There is no ulterior motive behind

this mail. Please read this mail to decide for yourself after knowing the

process that is used to manufacture this VARAKH.

 

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.

 

PLEASE ABANDON BEEF.

I would like to thank the authors of this article in

Taranga, a weekly magazine in Kannada, for enlightening us.

Source: Taranga Magazine

Authors: Nafiza Joseph and Shailaja N Raj.

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