Pittsburgh _Patrika_Jan-2018

The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 23, No. 2, January 2018
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first notions of moral and sustainable eating came to be.
Nowadays, global hunger has very little to do with lack of food and
more to do with a lack of access to it. We can and do make enough food
to feed everyone. We are trying to feed the world on the backs of animals
by eating their meat and drinking their milk. The idyllic image of the
happy cow, herded by beautiful maidens along green grasses is not how
most cows, in America or in India, find themselves. Dairy farming is a
round-the-clock operation where animals are housed in small cubicles,
attached to milking machines for hours at a time. There is no joy in their
lives. They are carrying the weight of the world’s bellies on their udders
and are a major contributor to green-house gases.
The countries with the highest rates of breast-, prostate-, colon-, and
uterine-cancer have the highest rates of dairy and meat consumption. The
resources required in land, water, and fuel are enormous. This places an
undue burden on the environment as well. It might be time for Hindus
to, once again, take a moral leap and abstain from dairy consumption as
a way of protecting the cow and our planet. •
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