INTRODUCTION 

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.” 
- Harvey Mackay

This planet is full of life which has comprised within itself the lives in the form of biotic and abiotic. We have the beautiful sound of the waterfall, the chirping of birds, the blow of wind, the roar of a lion, the hiss of snakes, and the conversation of humans too. This world is full of manifold species from the extreme level of barbarousness of crocodiles to the softness of rabbits. The relationship between humans and animals developed with the existence of early man, where they used to kill and consume them. Later on, as the early men developed physically, and properly, particularly in terms of India, they began to domesticate some animals like cows and dogs for agriculture. In this way, an emotional relationship was established between them, and animals started considering a family member of their own. It's not enough there are a lot of reasons where it can be early seen that cows in India are worshipped and beloved by every people and particularly by Hindus. As there are a lot of mythological stories where the cow has got respectable and a sacred position and I would like to make you count some of the mythological stories where you can easily consider and realize how much the cows and their descendants are adored in India.

Mythology text of Hinduism and there is a renowned text which is called Shiv Puran it's been mentioned that Lord Shiv is considered the constructive destroyer of the universe and the same has an ox who is called Nandi the bearer of Lord Shiva there is another where Lord Krishna who is considered as the 8th incarnation of Lord Vishnu, had taken birth in Gokul where he was Shepherd of cows. He used to make them graze. He loved the 'makkan' (butter) which he extremely loved to eat. Lord Krishna is deemed as the greatest diplomat, teacher, mentor, manager, and Dharma establisher on this planet ever. In addition to this, multifarious deities in India are closely associated with cows. Why does it happen? As people in India are tightly attached to cows, oxen, and bulls. But in the present world, the condition of cows is deplorable. They are exclaiming in pain. Why is it happening?

GREATNESS OF "COW"

"Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures…”
-Thomas de Quincey 

In India, a cow is worshipped because of its various features regarding its working, behavior, and innocence; those features are the following: 

• The cow provides us with milk which consists of calcium and other nutrients. 
• Her milk gives us a cheap and easily available source of food that is liked by every person irrespective of age group. 
• The combination of milk and turmeric act as the syrup of antibiotic. 
• It was the cow's and buffalo's milk that was the food of the destitute during the time of the exploitation of britishersin India. 
• A cow gives either the male or female calves, where the former is used to run in the field to plow and the latter is used to again give milk.
• The cow dung was used to mop the surface of the house to disinfect the surface.
• The urine of cows is used to cure various diseases. Moreover, to treat fatal diseases like cancer. 
• She resides in the family like other family members. 
• When agriculture was the only source of income for every family in the traditional world of the people. At that time there was a huge possibility of natural calamities like famine and drought. These kinds of incidents increased massively during the time of British period due to their economic exploitative policies 

If there was a cow in your family, the possibility to die from starvation was very low. This is cow's greatness. 

WHY NOT CONSUME THE MILK OF COWS? 

“Cows are my passion… to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live surrounded by cows - and china.” 
- Charles Dickens.

We, humans consider ourselves Supreme amongst all the species of animals and birds in this world. We are indeed more powerful as compared to any other species but along with that there is one more quality that has been given by the supreme almighty to us and that is the quality of emotions and the logical brain God provided it to us to look after not only to ourselves but also the other animals and living organisms on this planet. However, whenever it comes to exploitation we never stayed back and we have always taken advantage in every period and every era. As far as is concerned with the environment, we did conditions worse just cause of some insatiable motives and comfort. Sometimes just for the sake of entertainment, we killed various species in this world and for that, we have the example of dodos and cheetahs in India. Today we'll be trying to know and comprehend the atrocities on cows and the unknown fact that is in favor of humans, cows, and the environment. If someone asks you what is the one thing which you find the most dominating feature of a cow then one can easily answer it in three words first would be her innocent behavior, second, milk of her, and last but not least is her beautiful commendable physical structure. It is known by everyone that her milk is absolutely fine and recommended by everyone to take. There are some reasons which can make you comprehend the unhealthy issues associated with the milk of cows. For a better understanding of the problem, we can broadly categorize the problems into three boxes and which are as follows:

Hazardous Effect on human health: 

“The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.” 
- Michael Klaper 

There are various issues which are concerned with the life of human beings and those issues are very serious, but in some way, it is neglected by the people and particularly by the businessman to get more benefit from the meet of the cows and also to get more profit by selling more milk. The issues are stated below: 

• Ovarian Cancer: A study published in 2000 suggested that women who consumed two or more glasses of milk per day experienced a whopping 44% increased risk of developing the disease, compared with much lower rates among women who did not frequently drink milk.
• Acne Research: Due to the consumption of milk-based products, the risk of acne or zits increases. 
• Prostate Cancer: A study linked dairy consumption to increased risk of prostate cancer. 
• Lactose intolerance: The digestive enzymes called lactase, which is responsible for digesting milk. Sometimes lacks in the human body, may cause nausea, vomiting, cramps, gas, etc. 
• Cholesterol: The saturated fats found in full-fat milk can also contribute to higher cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke
• Saturated fat: A study that tracked the eating habits of over 200,000 Americans showed that participants who cut out dairy-based fats and replaced them with polyunsaturated vegetable fats decreased their risk of heart disease by up to 24%.
• Milk allergies: Cow milk can have some sort of allergies regarding diarrhea in children.
• Antibiotic: When cows don't require antibiotics they are given with force to bear themselves in poor surroundings. 
• Weight gains: Milk has Saturated fat, which causes an increment in weight. 
• Sodium: Cheese can contain up to 400 mg of sodium, which is much more than seawater. 
• Bone fracture: Animal proteins produce acid when they’re broken rates than those who drink little to no milk. As milk acts as a great acid neutralizer and as soon as milk breaks into animals' protein to neutralize it calcium goes out with them sometimes to neutralize animal protein it takes calcium from the body itself. Therefore, the body of the milk taker has a high risk of bone fracture.

Miserable condition of cow:

“Since the cruel killing of cows and other animals has commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.” 
-  Lala Lajpat Rai.

Here, similarly, we will be trying to understand the deplorable conditions of a cow in slaughterhouses just for the production of beef and milk. When a cow is brought into a Farm to produce milk, first of all, it is impregnated by artificial insemination before the age of 1 year so that it can produce more babies in its life cycle and a cow on average is impregnated 4 to 5 times. Due to giving birth to 4 to 5 baby cows her internal condition becomes critically deplorable sometimes her womb gets damaged and while giving birth to a cow the baby cow sometimes has to lose her life. In the meanwhile, she is tortured very badly to send her from one area to another area. She is kept in poor conditions and she is given antibiotics many times to not affect her physical health unnecessary antibiotics are hazardous for her. As she was given antibiotics at that time when it was not required and due to that when she needs medications, medicines don't work. 

As soon as the cow gives birth to her child after a few days both of them are segregated from each other. If the calf is a male then it is either killed or sent to the slaughterhouse to cut and serve in hotels or if that calf is female then it is again sent for the same job which her mother was doing and the whole process goes on in the same manner for sure. 

Environment-related issues: 

Two major issues are concerned with animal husbandry cow firstly concerned with the production of greenhouse gas which happened when so many cows are fostering at a place and their cow dung accumulated at a place where it is left to rote and just cause of that there is the huge production of Methane Gas, which is not good for the Ozone layer. It protects the whole Earth's surface from the harmful UV rays of the Sun. The ozone layer has already been ruptured by CFCs in the 80s. And it has not yet recuperated from its previous injury and now it is facing fatal conditions due to the production of other harmful gases like methane and Carbon dioxide. Secondly, deforestation gives birth to two primary causes of which deforestation. (i) Primarily, if we talk about the cows, they need plants to consume and for that, they need huge land for the plantation of cows. Along with plantations they also need large grasslands which again take a large of Forest to cut. (ii) For the construction of tin sheds they again need land, which takes a large portion of land again. All these things collectively lead to deforestation. 

MEASURES TO AVOID THE ISSUE 

“Home is where my cows are.”
– Unknown*

Milk of cows is very precious all over the world because it is not only a food or a nutrient which is concerned with the life of the babies and everyone. In India, particularly, the most trustable substitute after mother milk is cow milk. I used to have the milk of a cow. When I was a kid my grandfather brought a cow for me because in childhood my health condition was not good and I was very light in weight and that's why I have very close memories of a cow. When, however, I got to know the miserable and yelling conditions of the cow it wrenched my emotions. When I watch the documentary related to animals, I was shocked. I want everyone to see those two equivalent documentaries first is DOMINION and another is EARTHLINGS. We must respect COW from the inside for its innocence, qualities, and sacrifice of milk of her calf. We must ban the beef of both cows and Buffalo. There are some solutions to avoid the issue: 

• Plant-based milk products like Almond milk, coconut milk, Quinoa Milk, and Soya Milk.
• Develop an understanding of the agony of descendants of a cow.
• Stop eating beef. The cow provides us milk for our child, we are killing them how shameful it is; just for the sake of having the taste of the flesh of a cow.  “Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are, in my opinion, two sides of the same coin.” - Mahatma Gandhi.
• Stop making a product of cow's skin.  “Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless… the deaf.” - Mahatma Gandhi
• Be vegan. There are several ways through which people can the taste milk-made products like ice cream. In addition to this, we have also alternatives to cheese and curd. 

“Kill me but spare the cow.” 
- Lokmanya Tilak.

REFERENCE 

• thehumanleague.com
• Peta.org 
• kidald.com 

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