A telling documentary relates the tragic tale of how India’s holy cows meet their death, even as the government and the courts and self-appointed protectors of ‘gau mata’ sit back and do nothing
The survival of the cow is threatened in India. But an all-India ban on cow slaughter, holding that the animal is sacred, is going to help very little.
Want to save the cow? Then ban the use of plastic for garbage disposal and stop the open dumping of daily waste.
This message is conveyed very plainly – and with some hard-hitting visuals – in a documentary called Plastic Cow. Available on YouTube, the 34-minute film will shock anyone. It should particularly be watched by the self-appointed protectors of ‘gau mata’ – who have succeeded in making the cow a highly political animal but have failed so far to fight an important cause behind the tragic death of so many cows in this country.
Produced by the Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh-based Karuna Society for Animals and Nature with help from the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust, Australia, and made by Kunal Vohra, the film makes each one of us who dump our daily waste in cheap plastic bags guilty of killing the cow. It makes the milk drinker as complicit as the beef eater in this mass killing.