Some More Terrible Consequences of Cow Slaughter
Some more consequences of cow slaughter and resultant non-availability of dung in India:
Closure of Schools Imparting Experience-based Knowledge
In villages during winter, people used to make bonfire of dung cakes at night and sit around it talking.
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Importance of Cow Dung for Sanskars
Because of lack of cow dung in India, Sanskars can not be performed properly nowadays.
In Hindu culture, there are 16 religious rituals (Sanskar) starting from birth (in fact there is one sanskar even before birth!) to death and none of these rituals can be performed without dung.
It is essential to attain or provide purity to the mind, to the environment or surroundings, to the mental status and to the ingredients which are utilized at the time of performing any religious ritual.
Slaughter of Animals Results in Unemployment of Millions of Hindu and Muslim Families
As a result of large-scale slaughter of animals resulting in non-availability of dung, millions of Hindus and Muslims have lost their age-old profession.
An Acute Need for Dung
For land under cultivation it is necessary to use 5 tons, i.e. 10 cart loads of dung manure per acre. If less manure is used, the soil becomes weaker, gradually loses its fertility and becomes barren over a period of time.
