Sacred Cow

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Sacred Cow vs. Bum Steer
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Cost / Benefit of Cattle in India
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• Benefits Provided by Cattle in India
• Traction
• Dung
• Milk
• Beef
• Hides
• Offspring

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Traction 60 million farms exist in India
2 traction animals are needed per farm
(minimum) 120 million traction animals
needed nationally 80 million traction
animals actually exist in India 40 million
shortage in traction animals
66 of farmers in India lack the minimum
number of cattle needed to farm effectively
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Dung 1. Principle source of fertilizer
--340 million tons used as manure 2. Main source
of domestic cooking fuel a. 300 million tons
used as fuel b. BTU equivalent of 1.- 35 million
tons of coal 2.- 68 million tons of wood 3. Adds
fiber to adobe construction material
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• Milk
• Average milk production 413 lbs. per cow per
  year.
• --52 gallons
• 2. U.S. average 5,000 lbs. Per cow per year.

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Beef 1. Untouchables eat meat --25 of the
population 2. Vegetarianism is an ideal, not an
actuality. 3. Many non-Hindus eat meat
--Christians, Muslims, Sikhs. 4. Very little
beef goes uneaten 5. Animal can be consumed
after it dies naturally without curtailing its
usefulness.
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Hides 1. India maintains one of the worlds
largest leather industries 2. India is a major
exporter of leather and leather products.
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Offspring 1. Cows are factories for making
other cows bullocks 2. It is cheaper to
reproduce a bullock than to buy a tractor
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• Different Perspective Due to Different Use
• In U.S., cattle are a Consumable Commodity
• In India, cattle are a Productive Resource.
• A Consumable Commodity must be dead to be useful
• A Productive Resource must be alive to be useful

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• Cost of Cattle
• Cattle do not compete with human for food.
• Only 20 of food comes from pastures
• 75 consists of rice straw
• --humans cannot eat
• Bullocks are fed more and better quality food
  than cows.
• Males fed mostly prior to plowing.
• Females fed primarily when pregnant.

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  Gross Calories of Useful Energy
Energetic __________________________  Efficienc
y Calories of Total Consumption  
Singur 16.9
U.S. 4.5
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How we bleed her to take the last drop of milk
from her. How we starve her to emaciation. How
we ill-treat the calves. How we deprive them of
their portions of the milk. How cruelly we trea
the oxen. How we castrate them how we beat
them. How we overload them. --Mahatma
Gandhi