Have you ever seen cow dung made into bread to eat, and cow urine made into a drink? In India, the status of cattle is even higher than that of people, in the streets and alleys, there are leisurely cows strolling everywhere, they can not only defecate on the ground, lie down in the middle of the road to rest when they are tired, look for people to ask for food when they are hungry, and even someone will follow the cow to pick up the so-called "sacred water" as a tonic to drink. Why does this phenomenon occur?
This issue of Childlike Animal Observation takes you to see why Indian cattle have this status.
How high is the status of cattle in India
Such images, which seem inconceivable to us, and even feel physically uncomfortable, were once everywhere in India. Cows, revered as gods in India, are said to have one of the three bishops of India, Lord Shiva, who was abandoned at birth and was picked up by a cow and raised, after which Lord Shiva often rode the sacred cow.
Because Indians are very religious, there are Shiva temples everywhere, and the sacred cow is placed in front of the temple as a town temple, so the status of the cow in India is very high. As protected sacred cows, they can appear anywhere in India, on the road, in the vegetable fields, and people will not be surprised.
If on an Indian road, you encounter two cows fighting in the middle of the road, don't drive, and you can't drive, either get out of the car and fight, or honestly sit in the car and wait for them to finish beating and leaving. Because in India, there are laws that clearly protect cattle, and there are many private laws in The Indian folk that are specially formulated for cattle, and these private laws are the supremacy of the status and rights of cattle, not to mention slaughtering cattle, that is, honking the horn on the road to scare cattle is not allowed.
In fact, to be precise, the real god in India is the tumor cow, and it has to be a white tumor cow. From the very beginning of its birth, a tumor cow will have a special person to feed it and take care of all its living quarters, and if it happens to be wearing a white robe, then its status will be even higher, and its urine will be collected by specialized companies and made into drinks to sell
And the price of this drink is not cheap, only rich people can buy it in India, and those ordinary people who can't afford it can only follow the cows on the street to pick up "sacred water" as a supplement. Even later, some people made the feces of white tumor cattle into cow dung cakes and sold them, claiming to be nutrients that can treat cancer, so there were those puzzling things. Even India once wanted to sell this kind of cake to China, if it were you, would you try?
Many people say that the reason why India regards the status of cattle so high is because of the deep-rooted idea of religious belief, but in fact, there is another reason, not only India, but also in all countries that develop agriculture, they once thought that cattle were sacred beings, after all, they were gentle and docile, and they dedicated their lives to farming
Overprotecting leads to flooding
Even in this era of rapid technological development, cattle still maintain their posture of hard work, except that in India, the status of cattle is higher than that of other countries. However, it is such a country that protects cattle very well, but it is the country with the largest proportion of beef export trade in the world. Let's move on.
Everyone knows that in India, people are divided into three, six, nine grades by the caste system, and cattle are also hierarchical. India is one of the world's largest beef exporters, and in 2019, beef exported from India accounts for twenty percent of the world's beef exports, second only to Brazil. And they don't export live cattle, but beef that has already been slaughtered.
Some people asked, but isn't there a special law in India that cannot slaughter cattle? Because the status of cattle is too high, they have no natural enemies in the country, until now india has more than half a billion cattle flooded. In fact, in 2003, delhi, the capital of India, wanted to deport cattle in order to solve the threat posed by too many stray cattle, who knew that the cattle catcher team was chased and blocked by people under the escort of the police, and had to fail.
In fact, we also said before that the real gods in India are the white tumor cattle, and occasionally individuals with special shapes will be worshipped as sacred cows, the most famous of which is the "three-eyed cow" in Sadhara Village, which is a cow that is deformed due to lesions and quickly becomes a miracle in the local area after being found. But in addition to the above two kinds of cattle that will be preferentially treated, our common buffalo, scalpers, etc. can not be said to be very good in India.
Although they will also receive a lot of care because of the mentality of loving the house and the U, in fact, these cattle still cannot escape the fate of being cattle. It's okay to be a traditional laborer, and it's no surprise that the street wanderers make a living by picking up trash, and most, especially buffalo, end up in slaughterhouses.
In India, the number of irregular cattle slaughterhouses in the country has reached more than 40,000, and 80% of the beef exported by India is buffalo beef, which is why such a country with cattle as the god is a big beef exporter, because they are not exporting the so-called "sacred cow".
And in fact, this is also a sub-region, the eastern part of India has very little restriction on cattle slaughter, while the west is very large, even the buffalo can not be slaughtered. So the question arises, why do Indians not eat cattle themselves, but sell most of their beef to other countries? Let's move on.
In fact, in India, not everyone does not eat beef. For example, there are other religions in India where they can eat beef; The worship of cattle is Hinduism, but the Nepalese, who also believe in Hinduism, will not hesitate to eat beef, which is a mouthful of incense.
I had to change the old customs as a last resort
This group of people want to eat, and that group of people will not let them eat, which is one of the reasons for the fierce contradictions between other religions and Hinduism in India, and in a larger way, it is even one of the important reasons for the separation of India and Pakistan. The ruling class in ancient India was not Hindu, but in order to appease the Hindu people, the state stipulated that it was okay to kill cattle, but it had to be killed quietly at home, and if it was killed at will in the street, it would certainly be condemned.
Because, after all, Hindu believers accounted for eighty percent of India's population, the sheer number of rulers forced rulers to consider their customs. Therefore, the country still has no way to load excess cattle compared to the total number of cattle eaten by a small number of people, so foreign export trade is India's only option.
Because the Indian people's worship of cattle has reached the point of blindness, in their eyes, even cow dung and cow urine are all-encompassing, which is not nonsense, in the early days of the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the Minister of State of the Ministry of Traditional Medicine of India, Shelipard, publicly stated that drinking cow urine can prevent the new crown virus, but the final result is a daily increase of 400,000.
But they didn't seem to be aware of the problem, and as always, they worshipped the cow as a god. There is even a sacred cow worth up to 240 crore, it is the Sultan, from the Kharian gang of India, its name even contains the meaning of the king, it must eat fresh grass every day, drink a bottle of whiskey before going to bed every day, just breed, it costs 500,000 rupees at a time.
As a result, in India, most of the "sacred cows" have a better life than many poor people, and they are respected for eating and drinking. Even when the cattle are old, the state has also set up a special nursing home, so that the elderly and the cattle can help each other and support each other. It is in such a big environment that many Very Hard Indians even say that they hope to be reborn as a cow in the next life, and you can imagine how heinous this atmosphere is.
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