Mad cow

Holly Cow v/s Mad Cow !!!

India ranks first both in terms of the number of cattle and in quantity of milk produced these are realities to be born in mind before replacing the traditional ways the Indian villagers’ method of tending their cattle with those of developed nations.

1. Add more value. Our cattle are not as efficient in producing milk n meat when compared to their western counterparts (when western cows convert rich food to milk, Indian cows have to do it with very cheap fodder (hay and dry grass).

2. Like people like cows. We under feed our cows (The owners being malnourished themselves it is a reality which will last as far as rural India remain poor).

3. Wealth out of waste. We let them graze on our Roads (These cows let loose feed on street waste and convert waste in to wealth!)

4. Eating cow’s fodder. India is endowed with people who relish on cattle fodder! (A news from Bihar which appeared recently about such a group of people who rely on cattle feed) The author is not mentioning about the Lalu n Rabri case about the embezzlement of six hundred crores from that state’s cattle welfare fund about six years back!)

Should we strive to imitate the west? For all solutions related with the improvement of the lot of our cattle? Just think.

Merits of our holy animals.

1. The World is their house ("Lokame Tharavadu"(the whole universe is our home) - as the sayin goes in malayalam) : our holy cows can practically thrive any where with any thing like road waste for survival.

In remote villages of India, cows and their owners share the same place. (There are instances of cows sleep inside the house and the owners outside; such is their devotion to this holy animal !!!!) Cow is for them a member of their family.

2. Energy from Trash. They convert the most un-nutritious food (Fodder) in to highly useful products like milk and meat. (They are affordable to Indian villagers, not just white elephants like the big imported cows)

3. Draught resistant. India has to undergo occasional droughts during this time animals which can thrive on less water and dry grass alone will survive and all others perish.

4. They are not a Pampered lot: They don't demand any luxury – being used to local climates they require no air conditioners, no fans they wander here and there and feed on what is available.

5. They don't get mad like their western counterparts which are fed five star diets!!! (Resistance to disease is perhaps the most positive of the qualities the local cows enjoy especially in the age of mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalitis) etc.

Aish, Sush n Shilpa.

Indians sure have a long way to go to perfect our style of tending cattle esp. cows, but the situation is not as bad as it is perceived. Indian give whatever they have to these holy animals, but there are limitations to these poor cattle owners which need to be addressed, if Indians were as affluent as westerners Indian cows would have been more beautiful than Aishwarya Roy or Shilpa Shetty. Let us wait for that time when our sheds are filled with beauties fit to contest and win Miss World pageant!!!

A holy dedication.

This article is dedicated with love to all the beautiful cows which roam free on Indian streets and turn trash to wealth, let their beauty increase day by day to attract the attention of those jealous spectators. Holy cow beautiful cow!

Harikrishnan & Suraj

Holy Cows

Holy Cows and Unholy Devotees !!!

Last week saw the inflation rests around 6% and Finance Minister frantically in search of scapegoats. The Hon. Minister found that the holy cows as the culprit as they were not producing enough milk to consume and export! And price of milk was sky rocketing to unaffordable levels. What immediately happened to our cows have they stopped producing milk altogether? Or has some ailments have caught hold of the poor Indian cows (like the mad cow disease). As usual the government resorted to a knee jerk reaction it banned the export of milk powder.

Indians consider cow as almost equal to his mother because mother breastfed him in the childhood and cow breastfeed him in the adulthood! He call her “Gomata” meaning cow-mother, adore her perform pooja bathe her during holydays, put sindhoor on her forehead and pray to her for prosperity of his family. Some detractors accuse Indians only perform pooja and not feeding their animals with good food. Poor villagers are no nutritionists and hence excused for feeding poor cows with only hay and water instead of five course dinners as westerners do.

There is no merit in boasting as an IT super power if some programming is not done to make our cow-mothers yield more milk from just hay and water. The poor villagers have nothing else to feed these animals they adore so much. The cow is described as “kamadhenu” by Indians -a cow owned by Devendra as per Indian mythology. (kama = wish, and dhenu = giver). That cow used to fulfill every wish of the owner –hence every cows are supposed to do so, if properly fed and taken care of.

During the post emergency period Indira Gandhi contested the election with cow and calf as her emblem. Then also these detractors were there with their foolish explanation that the cow stands for Indira and calf for Sanjay Gandhi, They also said that the milk is for the calf (Sanjay) and only dung for the other Indians! These silly detractors never seem to learn any lesson. Other so called “environmentalists” charge that the poor “gomatas” (cowmothers) pollute the atmosphere by belching methane and hence are culprits of air pollution (they argue that cows do pollute more than the vehicles –in fact these environmentalists belch more than the poor cowmothers). It is time the conspirators who tarnish the image of the gomatas should be brought to book.

These conspirators against our cowmothers should be compelled to undergo courses on RK Narayan’s cartoons, without one or two cows let loose to graze; Indian roads will look completely drained out of its life.

Holy cows like our Co Operative Departments, Public Sector Units, State Electricity Boards etc need to be allowed to roam free – like mobile roaming. Holy cows are “Kamadhenus” they fulfill each and every wish of the owners any restrictions imposed on holy cows are restrictions on the kamadhenus hurt our sentiments and simply not allowable.

The ban imposed on milk powder should be made applicable to all products derived from cow as the gomatas give it to her subjects to enjoy and prosper, never export and make profit out of that because profit itself is a very bad word. Never think, say or talk about export and profit.

If met with acute shortage milk products we can import because cow mother is mother only to Indians and not to Switzerland or Holland which consider cow as a mere animal but feed them well. If the present situation is progressing like this (feeding them with only hay and polluted water) we will have to import not only milk and milk products in future but cow mother herself!