Every time I say milk is non-vegetarian because it is made from the blood of a cow and also because of the way it is extracted and the fact that the cow is sent to the slaughterhouse after she stops giving milk ( amongst dozens of other reasons) , irate “vegetarians” respond with "Krishna used to drink it" ( again a fallacy as there is not a single mention in any ancient text of Krishna drinking milk).
Here is one more reason for not drinking milk and eating beef -- both are contaminated with the chemical Oxytocin.
Oxytocin is an injection used on women to induce labour and to stimulate milk in their breasts. The effect of this drug is to increase contractions in the uterus and expedite childbirth. If used incorrectly, it causes rupture of the uterus. The manufacturers of this drug are emphatic that this hormone should only be used in dire emergencies and that it should only be administered by a gynaecologist. Its usage predisposes the newborn baby to jaundice and reduces the supply of blood to its brain.
You are drinking this dangerous drug every day. Your milkman uses the same oxytocin injection TWICE A DAY by injecting it into the cow/buffalo in the mistaken notion that it produces extra milk. What it actually does is makes the milk flow faster by causing the cow's uterus to start contracting. It is used to force the cow to give milk after being beaten, starved and put under stress.
Do you know how terrible labour pains are? Think of millions of cows having the same uterine contractions twice a day. It damages her reproductive abilities causing premature sterility. This injection is the reason why the cow becomes incapable of bearing calves within a few years and is sent to the slaughterhouse -- ten years before her natural life-span is over. A cow withstands any viciousness on her: but when she sees the long needle of the oxytocin injection EVERY cow bucks like a horse anticipating the pain to come.
Oxytocin not only affects the cow, it filters into the milk. It has been held responsible for uterine cancers, male impotence, and excessive hair on women and balding for men, early or erratic periods, and early development of breasts (for both sexes). It is considered particularly harmful for the eyes, especially in children. The hormone affects the reproductive ability of women. Its most common symptoms are exhaustion and loss of energy. Pregnant women who drink milk have an increased risk of haemorrhaging.
Beef all over India has been found to be extremely toxic with large amounts of this drug.
Oxytocin is banned in India for use on animals. It is a Schedule H drug and can be sold only by prescription. But the black market sells it in bulk and you can buy it at every small general store shop near a dairy. For humans it costs Rs 15 an ampoule. On the black market it costs 50 paisa. The drug is so cheap and readily available and the implementation of the ban is so lax that it is used by every dairy. If you don't believe me, visit your local dairy and ask about the drug. Even the illiterate milkman knows the name Oxytocin.
There is only one importer of the drug. He is in Mumbai. He has been ordered by the Health Ministry to only sell glass ampoules of it. No deal. He sends it in large wholesale packages all over India – specially Bihar and Haryana. There it is taken by tin shed “factories” whose labour put it into small paper packets or red ampiules called Veterinary Oxytocin and sell it to every dairy in India. One raid in Ahmedabad turned up 3 lakh packets in one day. Most small chemist shops sell it under the counter.
While the Drug Controller has banned the drug, the animal husbandry department encourages it. Their job is not to promote the wellbeing of humans or animals but to see that there is enough milk on the market at the minimum cost. They also want a regular supply of calves in the slaughterhouses – for calf leather and meat. The mother will only give milk if she sees her baby. But if the baby is taken away to be killed and oxytocin injections are given instead, then she will be giving milk forcibly anyway. Oxytocin is the reason why thousands of calves are trucked away everyday for slaughter – even though it is illegal to kill them.
