The cow is sacred in India, but today, as we walk in streets of India, in every passage or street we will find a cow searching in the garbage for food. Many cow dies with tons of plastic bags in their stomach. The 'holy cow' is now facing a worse fate in our country. No cow lives out her normal life cycle. She is milked, made sick and then either killed or left in search of a deadly end..Few days ago I saw an injured cow outside a house with a piece of cloth on her face. My unprompted thought was she is dead, suddenly she moved a bit and I realised she is badly injured and must have broke some bone of her body.. and now waiting to die. I asked a few people to help her.. but most of them were mentally injured because no one was paying attention.. In the crowd of insensitive people someone was kind enough and informed me about the owner of that cow..
I knocked the door of her owner s house and informed him about his cow s condition.. Shockingly that fellow was not oblivious about his cow s condition.. “mujhe pata hai ke wo marr rahi hai” very carelessly he said.. I felt like to give him a tight slap.. For years he must have used her as milk machine.. He must have repeatedly raped her by artificial insemination and now when she need some extra care, this fellow is not only ignoring her but also wanting her to die.. He shut the door after muttering a few words “she doesn't eat or drink and there is no treatment”.
I think it is a common fate of all the domestic animals.. People keep and use them for different purposes and they left to die in pain without any food, water, and treatment. I don’t know if there s any NGO who educates these people about the proper treatment for such cases.
I have also heard that in villages people use Coal tar, GUM prepared by animal skin for their animal s treatment. I have no idea if they are effective or do they cause more harm to their animals.. But I think these remedies are worse than the disease itself.
Even worse happens to her male child. The male calves are tied up and starved to death within 24 hours after his birth.. or sent to the slaughter houses. In Mumbai only every year more than 50,000 calves are forcibly killed. Once the cow stops giving milk, they are sold to illegal traders and they end up as someone's bag or shoes.
It’s the duty of our politicians to see that the cows, bulls are protected.. But it is not possible because politicians are making us unprotected by their presence then who s the caretaker of our so called Holy Cows or Gau Mata?
This painful life and death of a cow is the price of being a holy animal and the milk, butter and cheese, she gives us for years..
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