if ( dropdown.options[ dropdown.selectedIndex ].value !== '' ) { But, i didn’t see from the energy point of view. I feel sadened by the fact that most Indians today are brainwashed by generations of mythology and bullshit pushing everyone to drink milk even using religion to do it . So, where does this extra milk come from? It is also customary for Hindu's to offer milk at the lamp/prayer alter when praying to God. Essentially it introduced Western milk processing technology in India. This enhanced the role of the cow as a source of milk than its role as producers of good draught animals and it further led to the increased production of milk. This is the great progress we have achieved after 70 years of Independence in the name of “science and technology” and it;s practitioners and supporters. As of 2013, India is the largest milk producing nation in the world. But didn’t rice growing regions need/have bulls and livestock in general? Now, milk-based sweets sold in the market are probably the worst food both in terms of nutrition (sugar) and in terms of waste of resources (one uses an enormous quantity of milk to produce the little ‘mawa’ and cottage cheese used in the production of these sweets). Majority of vegetarians in India come from milk rich regions in India -Gujarat and Rajasthan. Hindus use milk and its products for religious purposes because it is believed to have purifying qualities: ghee, or clarified butter, is used in lamps for rituals; milk is used to bathe Hindu idols on special occasions; sweets made from milk or ghee are used as offerings to gods. I should point out that I transitioned from eating meat, to becoming vegetarian to now being Vegan. In return, all that the rural people got was some money. All food items are consumed by the city population, which does not produce anything. I wondered how Indians got this milk and togurt habit. After all ‘nothing comes from nothing’ and if a region has to grow something new in huge quantities, it has to be at the cost of something! It began with domestication of animals and with animal husbandry, which was around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Have echoed my sentiments sir. Now, there is not enough milk to support everyone on a vegetarian diet. Even today, Eastern Asia as a rule does not use milk. })(); In India, particularly, the vegetarians argue that we should have organic milk, that is fresh milk from free range animals and not this ‘factory’ produced milk. For vegans, the drinking of milk is exploitative of the cow, who should feed her young that milk. 4. They do consume a lot of milk. Thankfully, certain right-thinking, enlightened individuals have come up with cow-based enterprises that carefully avoid all the aforementioned evils associated with modern dairies but rather selling pure, healthy, unadulterated milk from cows that are well-fed(some feed herbs like aswagandha, satavari), allowed to graze a lot(which is very important, for only the products of grazing cows have all the benefits as mentioned in the Ayurvedic texts) and looked even after getting unproductive. Some of the modern critics of milk will also prevail and many more people will give up using milk and milk-based sweets. As of 2013, India is the largest milk producing nation in the world. But even in USA the consumption of cow milk is pressured even by your doctors. Even then, it did not spread all over the earth. So, for some, milk is the greatest food, while for others, milk is one of the five white poisons. In the UK, milk is in such demand that it is not necessarily a ‘natural’ food. The Future of Milk In the future, there will not be so much energy available. This process involved enormous use of energy in refrigerating and so the price of milk and its products increased and only the city could afford to pay for it. Growing up all my grandma or mom or other family member would say constantly, Drink Milk! They introduced vegetarianism in India. Milk is used to bathe Hindu idols on special occasions. Milk is a substance that mammals produce to feed their babies. Incidentally Jains are not Vegans. In China and other East Asians regions other reasons may be operating because the whole region never ever used milk for human consumption. Hindus even worship the cow as a Deity. However, with human species it is more than just this. So much so, today Hyderabad is the diabetic capital of the world with more than 20 percent of its population being victims of it. Thanks for your comments. The killing of cows is not permitted in India, and Hindu's do not eat beef. Secondly, there was a marked increase in the production of milk based sweets and sweet shops. Panchamruta contains five milk products – milk, both raw and boiled, ghee, butter and yoghurt. In the Eastern part of Central India, it is like the South – only Brahmins and traders are vegetarians. Ghee is clarified butter and it is used in lamps for rituals. Around 1970, we had Operation Flood which ushered in the milk revolution. Snakes are cold blooded and carnivorous animals, whereas milk is often consumed by the mammals.” “Not only that – I have seen even fake YouTube video showing that a snake drinking milk…” she replied. Most of them are either encroached or usurped. ... No wonder spokesmen for some Hindutva communal … It is true that upsurge in milk consumption in last 200 years is is due to ‘a conspiracy by the food industry.’ But milk may be ok in some ecological regions such as West Asia and Europe, the original home of animal milk consumption by human. } And I strongly feel that many health problems in India may have a connection to the high consumption of dairy as well….it feels impossible to remove these 2 items as consumption in a cultural that consumes it so excessively. The case against civilisation: Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better. Unlike milk, ghee has longer shelf life and being far lesser in quantity could be transported to distances. A little milk was used for festivals and by upper castes. While on the one hand this project increased the milk production and increased its supply to the cities, it depleted the villages of all milk, including the free buttermilk which the poor used to get. The thousands of Hindu idols around the world that on Thursday were "drinking" milk have finally quenched their thirst. Your email address will not be published. My guess is that wheat growing regions are also grass lands and the cattle gave more milk. Highly thought-provoking. This map is not very accurate and since 1970s great changes have occurred in India which has changed the availability of milk and wheat drastically. Ghee, a milk product, is offered during yagnas to Agni, said to be the hunger of the gods. The use of milk-based sweets and ice creams will come down drastically. Milk is used to bathe Hindu idols on special occasions. The killing of cows is not permitted in India, and Hindu's do not eat beef. After reading your article I understood that milk & wheat are harmful thus should n’t be consumed.My question is what’s the best natural alternatives for wheat & milk . Now, there are good reasons to conclude that this technology is not suitable to India. And, yes, snakes do not generally drink milk. It started in Gujarat with the Amul project. Many people think that milk is normal good food. But at very huge cost, Nature will restore its balance. We do the same thing in India, but with ghee. “Yes Martha, some Hindus do that. I just wanted to know if Indians lived without consuming milk. But a large part of the world until recently never consumed the milk of other animals. In the Malwa, Nimar and Bundelkhand regions, many peasant castes are vegetarians. Loans are given to the poor to look after a buffalo or a cow, government subsidy is given for artificial insemination, special grain and grass is grown to feed these animals at the cost of other uses of land, children of the poor miss school so as to look after the animal, and so on. Internally I feel anger that culturally such a thing was pushed& pressured on me. Electricity is dependent on scarce mineral resources which are all rapidly depleting. (See the History of coffee.) Introduction Our food habits vary from place to place. Sweets made from milk or ghee are used as offerings to gods. Even today, Eastern Asia as a rule does not use milk. (function() { Another thing that happened in India at that time was the emergence of Jainism with its ‘extremist’ emphasis on non-violence. A COVID-19 Prophecy: Did Nostradamus Have a Prediction About This Apocalyptic Year? Therefore they're not pumped with hormones, etc. Many Hindus follow a vegetarian diet (that may or may not include eggs and dairy products), that they believe is in sync with nature, compassionate, respectful of other life forms. TIM MCGIRK. Haven’t realised before. Hindus use milk and its products for religious purposes because it is believed to have purifying qualities. So there the cow is used mainly for milk and beef. Milk in Hinduism The memory of cows in green pastures is one very strong within the collective memory and imagination of Hindus. So the world milk production will be drastically reduced both in quantity and in areas of milk production. Diet in Hinduism varies with its diverse traditions. Increase in the gap between the rich and the poor and 3. Even 3-4 decades ago, cows would be brought to home by the cow-herds which would be milked on the spot and the fresh milk given to the households. Rest of India was mainly a millet country with rice growing in low lying regions and Eastern coastal region. Here milk is centrifuged to get cream which can be made into butter or cheese. function onSelectChange() { Hindus use milk and its products for religious purposes because it is believed to have purifying qualities. (Herein after the word milk means only milk from domestic animals and not mother’s milk). In other words, the one who destroyed the Indian agriculture is her hero – God bless our country or rather God save our country from these “intellectuals”)! The Hindu religion is practiced by the majority of people in the Indian subcontinent and is the world's third largest religion. The utter impossibility of an idol drinking milk is obvious to any scientist worth the name and should be so even to a person with only a high-school education. Then, through a cold chain, the milk is homogenised and packed. However, it also spread to other parts of India and today in most Indian cities you can get packets of milk irrespective of the region’s ability to produce such a huge quantity of milk. As if it were some holy elixir. It was only in North West India, where the cows gave more milk, was milk used in larger quantities. While human breast milk is … This is excellent. Sweets made from milk or ghee are used as offerings to gods. These perceptions lead to prejudices about the other and offer a basis to racism, communal politics and hate politics. Milk is also not good for human nutrition and health as can be seen by the example of the Chinese who do not use milk and therefore are free of some diseases. Tractors, bikes and auto rickshaws replaced the bullocks and bullock carts. Only in the North West region there are castes other than Brahmins and traders who are vegetarians. We also considered that whichever animal’s milk we take for nourishment becomes equal to our mother and hence unfit for slaughter – whether it is of the divine gau-maata or the relatively inferior buffalo(we never drank buffalo milk, the British habituated this milk to us, while opening cow slaughterhouses. Whether the region per se is capable or not, they are guzzlers of everything and the waste they produce is a great pollutant. Yes,complete refrigeration – CFC – Green house gas – Global warming – Species Extinction. December 29, 2015 This is a distilled country liquor. If they did, how come they were not using milk in olden days in South India and in East Asia? Historically, the milk of domestic animals was mainly used in West Asia and spread to Europe in the West and up to North West India in the East. This number historically has been a quarter of the world population. The short answer is that 99.9% of Hindus have never tasted cow urine in their entire life, myself included. What is normal in one region can be unusual or even illegal in another place. The ruminants (cows and buffalo) are important because they are good digesters of excess biomass and convert it into dung, which has good potential in producing organic fertilisers. agriculture spread all over India in a big way. As we have seen above, Gujarat is traditionally rich in milk and so the project succeeded even if it deprived the rural poor from the supply of free buttermilk. But of course water buffaloes were important there as draught animals – both for agriculture and transport. The same applies to poultry, where lack of surplus feed has limited it to the scavenging breeds and surpluses in the West led to cage-fed specialised egg and meat breeds. Milk from villages is collected at local collecting centre and transported to the nearest centre which houses a chilling plant. Bhang lassi – an intoxicating drink prepared from the leaves and flowers (buds) of the female … After 1970 India is a tropical country and so the day temperature is fairly high. var dropdown = document.getElementById( "archives-dropdown-3" ); Most Hindus do not eat beef, and some Hindus apply the concept ... Cow-derived products play a significant role in Hinduism with milk particularly being highly revered, often being used in holy ... the Pope is said to have remarked that the drink was "... so delicious that it would be a sin to let only misbelievers drink it." Science behind serving milk on Suhagraat. We will show that there is an ecological basis for these different perceptions and what is right for one place could be wrong for another place and vice versa. So, for some, milk is the greatest food – there is a phrase in India which says that a good land is one where rivers of milk and ghee flow. It appears that, historically, the area of milk consumption coincided largely with wheat producing regions of the world. 3. Hinduism, is one of the oldest religions in the world, dating back over 4,000 years, originating from an area near the river Indus in India. All of this may not happen in one place, but, on the whole, this is the picture we get. Thank you for writing. While they share this aspect with other mammals, they also consume the milk of other domestic animals, such as cow, buffalo, goat, camel etc. In the West, where large tracts of high quality grass lands were made available for animals, as well a supply of surplus cereals, specialised milk and meat breeds were developed. T. Vijayendra may be contacted at t.vijayendra@gmail.com, Tags: animal agriculture, bioregions, consumerism, consumption, diet & nutrition, farmers & farming, food security, India, Indian economy, lifestyle impacts, livelihoods & rights, local economy, meat consumption, planning & policy, rural India, rural-urban divide, T. Vijayendra, veganism, vegetarianism. Also ruminants were important as digester of crop residue and the dung was important as fertiliser. ... Whilst I am in no position … Robert CLive the culprit behind cow abattoirs in India, later died a pathetic death at his native place LOndon, by commiting suicide out of mental deppression – the “pro-bovicidal environmentalists” must remember the karmic lessons from this!! “Homo Economicus” asserting himself – “Human profits first and devil take the hindmost” attitude! And is also why majority of India has a very unattractive “Wheat Belly”. This is the sad era we are living in. Although Jainism was born in Bihar, majority of them are in Rajasthan and Gujarat- a region rich in milk production. The processing route is different in Europe, which is a colder region. I appreciated how you mentioned the introduction of consuming wheat in India was not part of the historical Indian diet. Many people think that milk is normal good food. And we now know that wheat is harmful to humans yet as like milk, wheat is also a huge part of the Indian diet. In rice growing regions the milk was less, draught animals were very important and most of the milk went to the calves – both cows and water buffaloes. Ghee is clarified butter. In the early morning of 21 September 1995, rumours of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha sipping milk from a spoon spread across the country. While milk was not important in the Indian context, whatever little milk was available was converted to curd and churned for the butter. That our country is celebrating ecologically destructive commercial systems as Green & White “Revolutions” and also demanding Bharat Ratnas for the “fathers” (M.S.Swaminathan and Verghese Kurien)behind them – is so deplorable that it beggars description. Another argument against the use of milk is that it should be used only for cow’s progeny to produce good draught animals. It created the craving for sweets among habitual drinkers. The cow is revered by Hindus and known affectionately as Gaumata, or mother cow. Increase in ecological degradation. So this industry along with many ‘unnecessary’ industries will contract. In a new study, it was found that regardless of diet, participants with the highest dairy calcium intake, equal to 12 oz. New Delhi. It has been historically assumed (not proven) that human diet requires some animal protein and that for vegetarians milk is a must. East Asia even today does not use milk. 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Thus, even today in the Punjab, we have lassi and parathas as common food and fresh white butter is served in small cups with the food. document.location.href = this.options[ this.selectedIndex ].value; So, for some, milk is the greatest food, while for others, milk is one of the five white poisons. Traditionally Indian homes, by and large prepared kheer or payas which is a rice and milk based sweet for festivals. That is, it will be produced mainly in West Asia, Europe and North West India. Many like the East Asians are opposed to milk but are not vegetarians. Milk Everyone knows what milk is. Many milk federations will collapse. All this changed with the availability of excess milk. Support this people’s initiative for climate action in South Asia! It needed bullocks and so the cows were domesticated for production of bullocks and when the milk production was low it was mainly given to young calves and very little or none was taken from the cows. 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