(via Sunny Narang)
I was talking with few
people today in Delhi and they cannot understand why Tamils are so adamant
about a sport that looks "Oh so uncool" .
They firstly have no idea
of dryland farming or how most of rural India lives and works . They would
think even a bullock-cart is animal exploitation while having steak !
Killing an animal is fine,
that is "Right to consumption" , but an engagement of animal with
humans is something that is "horrid" .
They who use cars and
vehicles, whose total lifestyle is led on support of extracted oil and machines
have no understanding of how animals are an essential part of livelihood of
farmers, herders and rural transportation.
Then there are dozens of
other issues of indigenous species of bulls . Milk cattle can be hybrid but
then needs huge support in resources . But bulls that pull plough and carts are
specialised to climate and locality .
And there are enough
studies on horse-racing being cruel , has anyone banned that ?
Currently, 83% of the
farmers in India fall under small and marginal segment (Marginal landholding –
<1 ha and Small land holding- 1-2 ha), where tractor penetration is close to
1%.
Small and Marginal farmers
can at most hire tractors of use bulls .
The industrialised-urban
media cannot get this . They speak for the tractor manufacturers and
international NGO's who no one listens to even in Spain and Latin America.
As they say in North India
, #KeHumHiMileTheKya , that were we the only ones you found
to teach lessons to ?
Go teach your fellow people
to stop bullfighting and horse-racing , rodeos and other such stuff .
And above all , if you want
to ban something , first think out how the traditional bull species will be
saved and how the herders and farmers who are losing income will be subsidised
.
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