We Worship Cow and Torture it || Acharya Prashant, on Veganism (2019)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Killing to eat flesh, you call yourself human? || Acharya Prashant, on Veganism (2019) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFog0gKKqe4&t=0s Video Information: Interview Session, 04.11.2019, Bengaluru, India  Context:  ~ Why should one turn vegan?  ~ What is the relationship between veganism and spirituality? ~ How veganism is related to compassion? ~ Why veganism is necessary for today's generation? ~ What is the relation between veganism and climate change? ~ How could veganism change the world?    Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 We worship the cow and we torture it no end and people talk about Desi Gaya ka

00:15 Doodh, Desi Gaya ka Ghee. They do not even know what they are doing to the

00:23 creature they call as mother. Is this the kind of behavior? You meet out to your

00:38 mother, milk her, put a noose around her neck, leash her to a pole or something or

00:49 to a nail and then keep milking her, artificially inseminate her and then

01:04 leave her to her fate. Once she becomes old and infertile and dry. In the name of

01:23 worshipping the cow, we have done great injustice to the cow. Again you know

01:32 people need to be presented with facts and figures. People need to know that the

01:39 dairy industry and the meat industry are inseparable. People think and there are

01:45 millions of such people in India. People think of meat-eating as some kind of a

01:53 lowly activity. It is even a taboo to many but they think of milk, drinking

02:01 milk as something holy. So the fellow will say I don't even touch eggs. I

02:10 survive only on milk. As if milk is any less cruel a product than eggs or meat.

02:26 The direct and symbiotic relationship between the milk industry, milk products

02:39 industry and the meat industry is not at all clear to people. Not at all. There

02:47 will be people who will be prepared to lay down their lives if they are asked

02:54 to eat meat. They'll say we are prepared to get killed but we will not take meat.

03:01 I respect their sentiment but these are the very same people who have no

03:09 scruples, no qualms about gulping down litres after litres of milk and lassi

03:19 and kheer and ghee and paneer and cheese. I'm not blaming them. I'm just saying

03:26 they are not informed. They do not know where all the meat comes from. They do

03:34 not even know that India is a big exporter close to being the largest

03:39 exporter of meat. Where is that meat coming from? People do not bother to know

03:46 what happens to the cow once it stops yielding milk and I do not mean to say

03:55 that the only injustice meted out to the cow is the one after it becomes old. Even

04:03 when the cow is young people need to go and check out what her life cycle is

04:19 like and for the sake of somebody who can't survive without cattle milk. It's

04:29 quite stupid you know. There is no animal in the entire universe that needs to have

04:36 milk of any creature other than its own mother. Man is the only one who wants to

04:45 drink cow milk, buffalo milk, goat milk, yak milk, camel milk.

04:57 Camel milk is for the camel offspring. Is it not?

05:04 Buffalo's milk is for the calf. So what kind of ingredients is the buffalo milk

05:14 likely to have? The ones that are suitable only to the buffalo calf.

05:25 Remember those ingredients are suitable only to the calf, the little calf. What

05:36 will those ingredients do? They will quickly turn the little calf into a full

05:44 grown bull. Is that what you want to become? A bull with a huge body and very

05:51 little brains? That's what milk will do to you. Milk has nothing for you. The milk

06:00 that a human being needs is adequately provided only by his or her mother and

06:07 once the mother stops breastfeeding that is it.

06:15 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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