Ganga Jal, Your Host
Hello, I’m Ganga Jal, your host at Save the Cow’s website.
Most people, and all the other cows for that matter, just call me Ganga. I’m working with the kind folks at Save the Cow to make this website entertaining as well as educational. Together, we’ve got big plans as you can see from the pages listed on the right (most of which are under construction). Right now, you can go to the Ganga’s Story page and read Part One of my life history. Don’t miss the cute baby picture of yours truly along with my mom, Gauri.
Or visit the In Moomoriam page to read Devaki’s memorial to my old friend Vamsi, who recently passed away. Check out the Projects and Wish Lists page to see the Great Winter “Bale Out” of 2008 appeal that successfully raised all the funds to pay for this winter’s hay. There, you’ll also find a photo of me all dressed up, as well as an ox-cart ride video. Thank you, by the way, to all you donors out there who gave so generously to feed me and my friends.
My Favorite Winter Pastime
Durlabha Das said
Haribol! I was just wondering how u got my email address!
savethecow said
Durlabha Prabhu,
Don’t you know that cows have mystic powers that encompass many dimensional spheres including cyberspace?
Actually, you’re email address was probably in a cc list of an email that we received some time ago.
Please let me know if you want it removed from our mailing list.
Ys,
Kesihanta dasa
Save the Cow
Shree Sarvottam said
The dairy and cattle owners are
responsible for the plights of cows after milking
them in the morning. They allow the cows and
virtually push them out of shelters to find food
available in dumps of debris lying around the city.
The Indian Cow Oct-Dec, 2005
HARMFUL EFFECT OF PLASTIC IN ANIMALS
Bhupendra Singh, III/ 1, Ramganga Colony, Dhampur, Distt. Bijnor (UP)
Harmful Effects
The coming known examples of
hazardousness produced by plastics define that
only some of plastics are responsible for that –
Mainly polyethylene and Polyvinyle chloride
because both of these two are using for food
grade applications at very large scale.
Epidemiology
Though, there is no such systematic
study on polythene and plastic induced
pathological lesions in animals. However, there
are scattered reports in literature and that too in
popular media. An attempt is made to collect
information from various sources and present in
a consolidated form.
1. Five cows were choked to death in Jaipur due
to blockage of their digestive tract following
consumption of polythene bags.
2. Two cows were operated and 48 kg of
polythene and 287 foreign bodies were recovered
from rumen/ reticulum of the cows by Veterinary
Surgeons in Jammu.
3. On an average about 25 cases were recorded
each year in polyclinic of CCS HAU, Hisar, which
were operated to remove the polythene from
stomach of cows. It is believed that there are
much largers numbers of stray animals which
after conserving polythene simply end up in death.
4. As per the Greek publication plastic bags kill
10,000 Mediterranean fish each day.
5. It has been recorded that 95% of urban stray
cattle in India suffering from various ailments due
to hazardous material inside their abdomen, out
of them 90% are plastic bags.
6. Plastic bags are major cause of unsightly lit-
ter and also harm wildlife like deer etc. In a
report, polybezoars containing polythenes and
plant materials along with salt deposits were
found in stomach of a barking deer which
comprises into 3 pieces each measuring 4-5 cm
in diameter and hard to touch. It was found
responsible for blocking of rumeno-reticulum
opening leading to death of barking deer.
7. Plastic bags that end up at sea are easily
swallowed by marine life that mistake them for
food. An estimated 1,00,000 whales, seals, turtles
and other marine life die every year after
swallowing plastic bags.
8. A seriously ill cow was operated in Bhuj by a
Veterinary Surgeon and about 4000 plastic bags
were found in stomach with other non-digestible
waste.
9. In Delhi zoo, a Swamp deer and a Sangai deer
died due to plastic bags.
10.SPCA Veterinarian operated more than 15
cows and found about 10 kg plastic waste in
stomach of each cow.
ankur said
ए हिंद देश के लोगों, सुन लो मेरी दर्द कहानी।
क्यों दया धर्म विसराया, क्यों दुनिया हुई वीरानी।
जब सबको दूध पिलाया, मैं गौ माता कहलाई,
क्या है अपराध हमारा, जो काटे आज कसाई।
बस भीख प्राण की दे दो मै द्वार तिहारे आई,
मैं सबसे निर्बल प्राणी, मत करो आज मनमानी॥
जब जाउँ कसाईखाने,चाबुक से पीटी जाती,
उस उबले जल को तन पर, मैं सहन नहीं कर पाती।
जब यंत्र मौत का आता, मेरी रुह तक कम्प जाती,
मेरा कोई साथ न देता, यहाँ सब की प्रीत पहचानी॥
उस समदृष्टि सृष्टि नें, क्यों हमें मूक बनाया,
न हाथ दिए लड़नें को, हिन्दु भी हुआ पराया।
कोई मोहन बन जाओ रे, जिसने मोहे कंठ लगाया,
मैं फर्ज़ निभाउँ माँ का, दूँ जग को ममता निशानी॥
मैं माँ बन दूध पिलाती, तुम माँ का मांस बिकाते,
क्यों जननी के चमड़े से तुम पैसा आज कमाते।
मेरे बछड़े अन्न उपजाते पर तुम सब दया न लाते,
गौ हत्या बंद करो रे, रहनें दो वंश निशानी॥
वन्दे मातरम
जय श्रीराम