People For Animals - India's largest Animal welfare organization by Maneka Gandhi

PFA Sangli organized a Dog & Cat Adoption Camp on 21^st April and got a good response from the people. [Image Gallery]

A member of my extended family’s favourite food is blood pudding. You take the blood of a cow and then put it into a cake dish with salt, herbs and a little garlic and then put the dish into the fridge. When it congeals it becomes like a cake. You can then cut it and eat it in slices.  This dish is much eaten in South European countries.

Are you feeling sick? But you eat meat. People in the Northeast eat dogs and look after goats. You eat goats. The Scottish eats the stomachs and intestines of sheep and cows. The Maharajas in India made pickles out of deer feet. The British boil pig feet and call it trotters. The Europeans eat snails and the cancerous liver of geese called pate. The Orientals eat snakes, Locusts and bear gall bladders and monkey brains. The Africans and Chinese eat everything.

On 29th April 2013, PFA Siliguri organized a free animals check up camp at Shivananda Vedanta Yogashram at Khaprail G.P. near Siliguri. Above sixty nos. of Cow, Goat, Calf, Hen, Dog were treated by BLDO Vet Dr. Malay Maity. Every Cow given FMD vaccine & free medicine provided to villagers. [Image Gallery]

When you look for a bride/groom for your son/daughter you look into the antecedents of the whole family carefully. When you admit your child to school you check the best possible educational centre. When you give your clothes to a tailor you find out the best tailor. When you buy a car you look for the best possible make. So why don’t you apply the same rigorous procedures to the most important thing in the world – the food you eat?

 

Where do you get your eggs from? The shop down the road. Do you know which poultry they come from or what the chickens have eaten or how they are kept? Of course not, an egg is an egg, you will say.

 

No it is not. An egg is the menstrual blood of a hen and its shell is not a shell but a porous skin that contains this blood. And eggs differ vastly depending on how the chicken has been kept and what it has been fed. Most eggs contain dioxins.

People For Animals Faridabad weekly report is as follows:

1 HORSE

Last week our People For Animals Faridabad team rescued one Horse from NIT- 1. It was unable to sit and stand. It is now under treatment at our shelter home.

Our PFA team rescued one inured Donkey from sector-29 Market. It has maggot wound near his toe. After provid three days treatment a Asswin Project team (specialist for Donkeys treatment) from Gurgaon City picked her for further treatment.

During last week rescued two inured Dogs; one is from sector-9 and another is from sector-16. Dog from sector- 9 having injury near his eye and Dog from sector-16 paralyzed from back side legs. Both the dog are under treatment.

We rescued one injured Cat from sector-15 which has injury on backside. It is under proper care at our shelter.

People For Animals Faridabad team rescued one Electrocuted Monkey from Nagla Road which was under Treatment.

During last week our People For Animals Faridabad team rescued one injured Puppy from Jahawar Colony having leg injury. It is under Treatment at our Shelter home. [Image Gallery]

We have a tradition of Health Ministers in this country who believe that they have been put there only to give licences to drug manufacturers and medical colleges for monetary considerations, to threaten tobacco companies and to have their offices renovated. They understand nothing of disease. In this century, pandemics are common, diseases that stretch across continents. No Health Minister can even visualize these. They cannot even understand the old ways of tackling disease – look at the abysmal primary health centres – forget about the new. This minister, Ramadoss, is perhaps even worse because he is a primary grade doctor and so he thinks he knows a lot. In response to a question of mine in Parliament that fluoride in toothpastes was banned for children abroad, would we do it here as well, he replied that Fluoride was an essential nutrient of the body! In one year all he has done is to try and take over the Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and Medical Councils so that he can do the licencing of the teaching colleges and get the kickbacks. Oh yes, and threaten the cigarette companies.

 

So when there is a health crisis like Japanese Encephalitis, what is the response of the Health Minister– and all health ministers in each state and health officers in the municipalities? Kill the pigs in the towns.

I am still reading the book Zoobiquity and one chapter is about the similarity of heart attacks in people and animals. According to the author, a doctor and head of internal medicine in a teaching hospital, whenever a shocking event like an earthquake or tsunami or even a war close by takes place, people get far more heart attacks than normal. Chest pains, arrhythmias and deaths rise. For instance when the Iraqi forces sent Scud missiles into Tel Aviv and civilians faced the possibility of being blown up at random, more Israelis died from heart attacks than from the missiles. Fear and dread is a terrible weapon. I know because I have lived with it most of my life and working with sick and dying animals can literally weaken and break your heart. During the 9/11 time, heart attacks reached an all time high across America. Doctors say that people watching sports matches often keel over from anxiety.

 

But are humans the only ones that die of fright? No. Bird trappers see that when they throw a net over forest birds and then move to put them into capture boxes, many have died on the spot, terrified by the sudden capture. The heart and the mind are inexorably linked. People die of emotional stress- even though their hearts and arteries are clean and healthy. The only thing that doctors find in such cases is a lightbulb shaped bulge at the bottom of the heart, now known as Takotsubo- direct physical evidence that severe stress (fear, grief, shock, intense negative emotion) can alter the shape of the heart and the way it pumps blood. It is now called the “broken–heart syndrome”. Not just human, every animal gets it. Watch an elephant that lies down by its dead friend or child and dies a few days later. That is Takotsubo. Stress hormones called catecholamines gush into the blood stream, poisoning muscles, causing clots, and causing the heart to beat wildly and dangerously.