Source: http://www.peta.org

Raising animals for food requires massive amounts of land, food, energy, and water and contributes to animal suffering.

Source: - http://www.dailypioneer.com

In the first concrete step towards improving the hygiene and quality of slaughterhouses across the country, the Supreme Court on Thursday issued a slew of directions, which among others makes it mandatory for all States to constitute a Committee for Slaughterhouses within one month.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com

Bureaucrats aren’t the only ones to continue in government post-retirement. Of the 21 judges to have retired from the Supreme Court since January 2008, 18 got jobs in different government commissions and tribunals. A majority still continue in these positions.

BY Dr. Michael W. Fox
Source: http://drfoxvet.com

India has the largest concentration of livestock in the world,(250-300 million cattle, 60 million water buffalo, 120 million goats, and 40 million sheep), having one-third of the world's cattle on approximately 3 percent of the world's land area. India is the world's second largest milk producer, with over half its milk coming from buffalo. Seventy-six percent of Indian people are rural, living in some 600,000 villages. The economic and social values of cattle are so great that cattle have long been seen as religious symbols and are regarded as sacred.