Shocking study reveals inhumane treatment and slaughter of cows and buffaloes in dairy industry

Shocking scenes of cruelty and suffering were seen in a video released by Animal Equality, a Pune-based animal protection organization. The organisation conducted a in sorting out about in six slaughterhouses in Maharashtra and Kerala between October and December 2023. They found – on the slaughterhouses, the butchers fail to kill the animals in a single slit. They repeatedly slit the animal’s throat leading to severe shock.

As per law, every slaughterhouse as soon as conceivable shall provide a separate space for stunning of animals earlier than slaughter, bleeding and dressing. But the killing is done in full view of each animal.

Some meat stores in Kerala practice barbaric ‘hammer slaughter’ where the animal is repeatedly bludgeoned with a hammer on the pinnacle till the animal falls unconscious.

Butchers milk the animals one last time right earlier than they're slaughtered to squeeze the last bit of business value of the animals.

Amruta Ubale, Executive Director of Animal Equality says, “All of these practices straight away violate Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960, as well as high court and supreme court orders mandating Slaughterhouse Rules 2001. Still, our in sorting out about found these laws ignored at every slaughterhouse we visited.”

Ubale adds, “In a usa like India where vegetarianism is renowned, many relate meat with cruelty and killing of animals. Through this in sorting out about we’ve proved that not simplest is dairy cruel to animals but the way it amounts to the killing of animals, as it supplies its ‘unproductive’ animals to the beef and leather industry. These industries aren't just cruel to animals but additionally its workers, the environment and to the consumers who drink milk which comes from cows and buffaloes pumped with hormones.”