In Indian dairy industry, buffaloes produce more than half of total milk production. But bad luck buffalo you don't have a status of mother
India is the largest milk producer in the world followed by the USA. According to Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare total milk production increases from 51.33 Million Tonnes during 2016-17 to 53.77 Million Tonnes during 2017-18 .
Despite water buffalos fulfilling the skyrocketing demand of milk obsessed population of India, this poor animal is the most abused and neglected bovine in India. They have no respect at all wheres cow has a status of the mother in Hindu population. No organization, no religious people or so-called Gau Rakshak ( The group of people who claim they protect cow from slaughter) ever talk about protecting this animal.
The life of a water buffalo is completely in the hand of the dairy owners, animal traders, and slaughterhouses. No need to say they don't have their own life.
The painful journey of the life of a water buffalo starts just after taking birth.
It is a standard practice in dairy farms that male calves are left to starve in front of their mothers because they do not bring in any profit
Female calves are separated from their mothers just a few days after birth and are often fed with substitute milk
Starved male calves collected to send slaughterhouse for leather. Hardly any male calf becomes adult male buffalo. Only a few reach to their adulthood and, adult buffalo abused to produce sperm for artificial insemination of female buffalos.
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Water Buffalos spent their whole in a small and filthy space. As the name only says they like to go into the water but, in their whole life hardly they get chance to go into the water. Specially in urban dairy farms there is no access to ponds for these buffalos.
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After 8-10 years when female buffalos unable to produce a profitable amount of milk, they become a liability to the dairy owners and to get rid of these unprofitable milking machines, they sell them to slaughterhouses.
As there is no restriction for slaughtering a buffalo and, nobody cares this animal they end their lives in slaughterhouses. 99% of female buffalo ends their life in slaughterhouses.
Due to this large amount of milk production in India, India is a no 1 beef exporter in the world. So there is a clear relation between milk and meat production but, it is never accepted by hardcore milk consumers of India.
India is a land of Lord Mahavira, Buddha, and Mahatma Gandhi, India gave the principle of Ahinsa (non-violence) to the world but when animals also have become a commodity used in the industry to earn the profit then government also keep mum for the sake of revenue and increasing employment and principles are in the text only!
