Cruelty to Animals

The other day it was shown on a Telugu channel the feed that was being given to two prized bulls of Ongole breed in Andhra Pradesh. The proud owner was shown feeding dozens of eggs, kgs of fish and meat topping it all with beer! The bulls were being force fed by hands thrust down their throats. They are not eating naturally. They have been shown to be kept in comfortable surroundings inside the four walls with air-coolers, mattresses,etc. The preening wife of the farmer gushed that he takes better care of the bulls than the family.

I read somewhere that mad-cow disease originated with feeding the livestock with the remains of cows after culling them to human needs. If I am wrong, some reader may kindly correct me.

I was disturbed by the scene itself and the repeated airing by the channel. This may goad others to imitate.

Now the species in question as I understood till now are herbivorious and feeding them animal products may be like taking banned steroids to grow muscles. If humans are thus protected by law against consuming harmful substances, why the animals are not protected and who will protect them?

I would like to draw the attention of Blue Cross/SPCA/other NGOs and animal lovers like Mrs.Maneka Gandhi and Mrs.Amala to ponder over. I dont know whether this is an accepted practice and my noise is childish.

Do animals have the right to graze peacefully in their natural habitat with some extra bio products like fodder, bran, etc. supplementing or they do not? Do they need beer?

Ponder...

Pain and Anger

Pain and Anger are two different emotions. Sometimes pain is misunderstood as anger. Pain and anger are both essential for the well being of a person as pain is a symptom of something wrong and anger, within reason, a safety valve.

When a person's likes, dislikes, wishes, desires, values, etc. are known but persistentky violated, it causes pain. At a certain point pain may turn into anger.
Anger will melt but pain will persist.

We should discriminate between pain and anger and deal with a particular person or situation accordingly. Pain should not be belittled.

In the nature of things and because of law of averages, a good lot of pain is caused to persons without anybody intending it. However, our endeavour should be not to cause any intentional pain or even anger, ever. Elders should especially try to practice this as, as experienced ones, they have to set the example.

Anger is a baser emotion but pain is not.

Ponder...

Quotes

'Without much warmth of heart or depth of brain'.

'Mediocrity of an unchanged mind'.

'Capacity for hard work, speed of comprehension and courtesy in dealing'.

'For the sake of a cheap phrase, he exploded his reputation'.

'Tone rather than content'.

'Chief mourner at his own protracted funeral'.

'Conscious of his inadequacies and eager to repair them'.

'Competitive will power than the desire for recreational plesaure'.

'He had the good sense to see that his future did not lie in diligently awaiting promotion'.

'An able but obstinate man is one who joins the brain of a statesman to the susceptibilities of a mule'.

'If you anticipate, you only use up some of the pleasure of the moment in advance'.

'Inherent squaller of financial disputes within families'.

'Who only liked doing what he did well'.

Man, The Slave of Machine

It had been predicted by some sci-fi writers that man will eventually become the slave of the machine created by himself. I think to some extent this has already become true.

Today while travelling or in company, people do not talk to each other but to the mobile phone and if they are not talking to it, they are fiddling with it.

Those possessing computers interact only with computers all their waking hours. They have no time even for their normal biological needs like eating, sleeping, etc.

Those possessing bikes/cars are so obsessed with them they think/dream only bikes/cars and its next model.

There are no human emotions except in Soaps on TV.

Information is to be assessed only from a machine and not from a fellow human being as the machine is reliable and the human is not.

Even train announcements are made by machines with that mechanical dis-jointed voice with no modulation. Machine language!

People cannot do without remote whether it is TV or curtains or window glasses. Human hand cannot perform fundamental functions.

Even conceiving is more and more in the machine mode rather than natural with so many avoiding the bother of marriage and preferring single parenthood.

The child to be born or to be aborted is also decided by the machine. They think for us.

Owner's Pride and Neighbour's Envy is only about a Machine!

Doctors do not feel the pulse they scan.

The empire has already struck back!

Ponder...