Author - Manoj Kumar
I have written many times in the past and shared that with my close friends and colleagues but probably writing a blog for the first time in the hope that readers would appreciate my efforts. I find the concept of blogging really cool. We can reach to any number of people through this electronic media and share our ideas and thoughts with others. It may also create mass awareness and also gives us the opportunity to bring the people on same platform where there may be constructive debates on topics among the readers. Yes I believe writing is the biggest media that can make people think and change their existing perceptions towards the things. The same thing that I see from my eyes may be entirely different in others' eyes, but once we come to a common platform and exchange our views on that, we can know about certain new features of that thing which we never thought earlier that way. So certainly it widens our circumference of thoughts and liberates us from many hitches or bottlenecks that we might have earlier in our minds.
Let me share a very beautiful thought from one of my friends who practices Islam. I was with him for almost four years, initially three years together in a college as a student and then one year as a colleague in another college as Faculty members. We used to differ a lot on many points and often we used to debate and quarrel on them. Sometimes we got angry with each other to the extent that we used to have no communication for few days. But we used to come back on talking terms once again despite those issues remaining unresolved and knowing it very well that we still differed and have not given in our sides. However we used to listen to each other very carefully and sometimes even I liked his ideas a lot I must say, though I might not have conveyed it many times to him.
Let me now come on the main issue that I wanted to discuss. Once we were debating on the issue of killing the innocent cattle for the sake of our food. I said this was very cruel and inhumane. We are incessantly doing it like the primitives who were having no other options because at that time they were just in the beginning of evolution and were hardly much different than the other animals of their time. They did not know the art of cultivating crops and were not so wise enough. They were not even social. But now when we can feed ourselves with the agricultural foods obviously I am referring to the vegetarian food available in plenty , then why to kill those innocent cattle? I think many of the readers must agree with my point. My friend listened to me carefully and started his answers that made me quiet and unanswered.
According to him when we talk about the life, life is there inside the plants also. They also have to take birth and die one day. They also breathe, they also make their own food, they also use to grow like a baby and become a tree like a young adult. Just like animals they also are having their reproductive systems. They also require a nurturing environment like the fertile soil, rains, water, Sunlight and birds or flies for the sake of their fertilization. Listening to all this my mind started thinking about the sound of the leaves of the trees on a night when winds blow heavily; some times it sounds so melodious like somebody is singing or playing some musical instrument. I then started comparing the petals of the leaves of some of the flower plants that exactly matches with the skins and texture of the butterflies. Then I started thinking about the roses that not only gives us the feeling of freshness, softness and fragrance but also have thorns in the branches on which the flowers are laden and probably those are to protect the flowers from outsiders.
You might have seen in many of the old trees, their branches or shoots create beautiful scenic view in the shape of a bird, or snake or any other animal. Some times it also looks like some Shiv Linga or like an idol of a God or a Goddess and people use to worship them. We have often seen people worshiping these trees using sindoor, red thread, dhupbattis etc.
Well yes plants have their life. We have also studied it in the Plant Biology or Botany. My friend’s point was right. Then he started describing about the Ecology system. Everything in this world is controlled by the nature in its own way. It does a balancing act. If tigers are there, then to feed them are the deer. Similarly If the snakes are there, then to feed them are the frogs and the rats. If the whales are there, then to feed them are the fishes. We have studied in Ecology, the primary and secondary producers and consumers. And we find that because of the human interference the balance of whole ecological system is being drastically disturbed resulting in unfavourable climatic changes in different parts of the world, extinction of various species of the animals, plants, birds and small organisms. Why Cheetas have become extinct from our country? The reasons are not one but many, like incessant poaching as a result of human greed of money, due to encroachment of jungles and making that available for human settlement as a result of heavy burden coming out of the unbridled population growth, and for other development purposes. The list is very wide.
Now I am very sure that the way these jungles are shrinking on such a fast pace, the days are not away when our biggest animal on land ‘Jumbo’ will be one in the list of extinct animals. Such a big animal and the vegetarian one, what a wonder! These Jumbo's food entirely depends on the plants and trees shoots. But how would they be able to feed themselves when plants and trees are not there, the jungles are not there? Think about this for a while. They use to travel hundreds of miles every year from one place to another, one jungle to another and some times one nation to another in herds for favourable climate during different seasons and for breeding. They have made their own corridors and they prefer to travel through those lanes only. But the humans have become so insensible and cruel that despite knowing these things very well, some are excavating mines blasting dynamites in their way, they have made roads and human settlements there. So next time when these herd come forget their way and strays into these human settlements and then under panic are killed by us labeling them mad ones. Well this is bad and my heart cries for this. I think these should immediately be stopped. Development looks nice only till you preserve your beautiful environment. Being human does not mean that all other living beings are having no importance for us.
Well, I went on to describe my views on the issue at length and breadth. Let me come back to my friend's views once again. My friend told me that if cattle are left to reproduce and grow without our interference their number would be in plenty and everywhere we would see them only. On the roads, in our house, in the ponds, in the streets may be in our offices, well joking. But he was not wrong. We humans produce only one or seldom two at a time that too after nine months of gestation. But these cattle produce many may be five six at a time. Their gestation period may be even shorter. We have control by means of contraceptives but they don’t. His point is valid, isn’t it? So what to do! See the kind of problem we are facing with stray dogs. What we do to them is, we catch them and make them sterile so that they cannot produce further child. Still we fail to do so efficiently because they outweigh our efforts. In some of the zoos I have read in the newspapers, they are not able to feed the deer because they have grown in plenty. There is no further space to keep them in their embankments or further create new embankments for them to live. Those are also made sterile by vasectomy. But how can we do it with all the animals? Wait and think about this. Is this possible for us? Nature has created these cattle to feed the wild animals but the fact that the wild animals are not there like before, and they themselves are on the verge of extinction, it is the humans that can control their growth so that the balance could be maintained.
Let me tell you explicitly that I am fully against any kind of violence or killing of cattle and animals but that time I was left unanswered by my friends arguments. What’s your take on this? Write me your comments. I would read all of you and appreciate.
I have written many times in the past and shared that with my close friends and colleagues but probably writing a blog for the first time in the hope that readers would appreciate my efforts. I find the concept of blogging really cool. We can reach to any number of people through this electronic media and share our ideas and thoughts with others. It may also create mass awareness and also gives us the opportunity to bring the people on same platform where there may be constructive debates on topics among the readers. Yes I believe writing is the biggest media that can make people think and change their existing perceptions towards the things. The same thing that I see from my eyes may be entirely different in others' eyes, but once we come to a common platform and exchange our views on that, we can know about certain new features of that thing which we never thought earlier that way. So certainly it widens our circumference of thoughts and liberates us from many hitches or bottlenecks that we might have earlier in our minds.
Let me share a very beautiful thought from one of my friends who practices Islam. I was with him for almost four years, initially three years together in a college as a student and then one year as a colleague in another college as Faculty members. We used to differ a lot on many points and often we used to debate and quarrel on them. Sometimes we got angry with each other to the extent that we used to have no communication for few days. But we used to come back on talking terms once again despite those issues remaining unresolved and knowing it very well that we still differed and have not given in our sides. However we used to listen to each other very carefully and sometimes even I liked his ideas a lot I must say, though I might not have conveyed it many times to him.
Let me now come on the main issue that I wanted to discuss. Once we were debating on the issue of killing the innocent cattle for the sake of our food. I said this was very cruel and inhumane. We are incessantly doing it like the primitives who were having no other options because at that time they were just in the beginning of evolution and were hardly much different than the other animals of their time. They did not know the art of cultivating crops and were not so wise enough. They were not even social. But now when we can feed ourselves with the agricultural foods obviously I am referring to the vegetarian food available in plenty , then why to kill those innocent cattle? I think many of the readers must agree with my point. My friend listened to me carefully and started his answers that made me quiet and unanswered.
According to him when we talk about the life, life is there inside the plants also. They also have to take birth and die one day. They also breathe, they also make their own food, they also use to grow like a baby and become a tree like a young adult. Just like animals they also are having their reproductive systems. They also require a nurturing environment like the fertile soil, rains, water, Sunlight and birds or flies for the sake of their fertilization. Listening to all this my mind started thinking about the sound of the leaves of the trees on a night when winds blow heavily; some times it sounds so melodious like somebody is singing or playing some musical instrument. I then started comparing the petals of the leaves of some of the flower plants that exactly matches with the skins and texture of the butterflies. Then I started thinking about the roses that not only gives us the feeling of freshness, softness and fragrance but also have thorns in the branches on which the flowers are laden and probably those are to protect the flowers from outsiders.
You might have seen in many of the old trees, their branches or shoots create beautiful scenic view in the shape of a bird, or snake or any other animal. Some times it also looks like some Shiv Linga or like an idol of a God or a Goddess and people use to worship them. We have often seen people worshiping these trees using sindoor, red thread, dhupbattis etc.
Well yes plants have their life. We have also studied it in the Plant Biology or Botany. My friend’s point was right. Then he started describing about the Ecology system. Everything in this world is controlled by the nature in its own way. It does a balancing act. If tigers are there, then to feed them are the deer. Similarly If the snakes are there, then to feed them are the frogs and the rats. If the whales are there, then to feed them are the fishes. We have studied in Ecology, the primary and secondary producers and consumers. And we find that because of the human interference the balance of whole ecological system is being drastically disturbed resulting in unfavourable climatic changes in different parts of the world, extinction of various species of the animals, plants, birds and small organisms. Why Cheetas have become extinct from our country? The reasons are not one but many, like incessant poaching as a result of human greed of money, due to encroachment of jungles and making that available for human settlement as a result of heavy burden coming out of the unbridled population growth, and for other development purposes. The list is very wide.
Now I am very sure that the way these jungles are shrinking on such a fast pace, the days are not away when our biggest animal on land ‘Jumbo’ will be one in the list of extinct animals. Such a big animal and the vegetarian one, what a wonder! These Jumbo's food entirely depends on the plants and trees shoots. But how would they be able to feed themselves when plants and trees are not there, the jungles are not there? Think about this for a while. They use to travel hundreds of miles every year from one place to another, one jungle to another and some times one nation to another in herds for favourable climate during different seasons and for breeding. They have made their own corridors and they prefer to travel through those lanes only. But the humans have become so insensible and cruel that despite knowing these things very well, some are excavating mines blasting dynamites in their way, they have made roads and human settlements there. So next time when these herd come forget their way and strays into these human settlements and then under panic are killed by us labeling them mad ones. Well this is bad and my heart cries for this. I think these should immediately be stopped. Development looks nice only till you preserve your beautiful environment. Being human does not mean that all other living beings are having no importance for us.
Well, I went on to describe my views on the issue at length and breadth. Let me come back to my friend's views once again. My friend told me that if cattle are left to reproduce and grow without our interference their number would be in plenty and everywhere we would see them only. On the roads, in our house, in the ponds, in the streets may be in our offices, well joking. But he was not wrong. We humans produce only one or seldom two at a time that too after nine months of gestation. But these cattle produce many may be five six at a time. Their gestation period may be even shorter. We have control by means of contraceptives but they don’t. His point is valid, isn’t it? So what to do! See the kind of problem we are facing with stray dogs. What we do to them is, we catch them and make them sterile so that they cannot produce further child. Still we fail to do so efficiently because they outweigh our efforts. In some of the zoos I have read in the newspapers, they are not able to feed the deer because they have grown in plenty. There is no further space to keep them in their embankments or further create new embankments for them to live. Those are also made sterile by vasectomy. But how can we do it with all the animals? Wait and think about this. Is this possible for us? Nature has created these cattle to feed the wild animals but the fact that the wild animals are not there like before, and they themselves are on the verge of extinction, it is the humans that can control their growth so that the balance could be maintained.
Let me tell you explicitly that I am fully against any kind of violence or killing of cattle and animals but that time I was left unanswered by my friends arguments. What’s your take on this? Write me your comments. I would read all of you and appreciate.
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मित्रों यदि मेरा यह पोस्ट आपके दिल को जरा भी छू कर गुजरा हो तो मुझे विश्वास है कि आप मेरे इस प्रयास को लाइक दे कर मुझे और भी अच्छा लिखने की प्रेरणा, स्नेह और आशीर्वाद देंगे। आप अगर मुझे मेरे फेसबुक प्रोफाइल पर फॉलो करते हैं तो आपको मेरे शेयर किये सारे पोस्ट्स आपके नोटिफिकेशन्स में मिलते रहेंगे।
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