newborn calves

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NEWBORN CALVES SKINNED ALIVE FOR LEATHER

 

Beauty without Cruelty magazine recently printed an article from MIdday,a

Mumbai newspaper. dated September 3 2005,

 

"Mahim creek has turned into a graveyard for newborn calves. Speaking to

Midday, Fizzah Shah, President IDA, revealed." When we visited the creek it was

heart rending to see the bodies of the newborn calves, their legs tied up with

strings and wires, stripped of skin. " Cattle owners based in Goregaon,

Jogeshwari and Malad sell these calves to cattle traders for Rs 5000 to 7000,

Butchers then slit the animals throats and dump the half dead calves near the

Nahim creek from the train. The area has witnessed a rise in incident of

diseases like dengue, malaria etc. Residents say that live calves are

stuffed into sacks and thrown off the trains in the early morning. As soon as

the train passes men from the Dharavi area take the calves into the tall grass

and peel their skin leaving the animals in pain,. The calves cry out in pain

but no one comes to their rescue as the men are armed and we fear for our

lives says Aslam. ( All the calves were male)

 

I was so upset on reading this I immediately called Mr RK Joshi the lawyer

for Viniyog Parivar and he informed me court action had been taken and this

atrocity has been stopped. But it must be going on somewhere else , and all

over the world, maybe in more sophisticated ways. So ask the dairy from

where you get your milk what they do with their male calves and how are they

disposed of. And please do not support these atrocities by patronising

commercial dairies

 

ys Labangaltika dasi