HELP INDIAN COWS

     In India where cows were once held sacred, Western demand for cheap leather has spawned a grotesquely cruel underground industry.  A recent underground investigation documented suffering cows dying en route to slaughterhouses or arriving with broken bones.

     Because it is illegal to slaughter cows in most of India, corrupt, skin-traders use bribes to smuggle the animals across state borders at night.   The cows and calves, who are bought under the false pretense that they will go to live on rural farms, are marched for days to slaughter, without food or water, in direct violation of the Constitution of India.  Those who collapse from exhaustion have their eyes smeared with chili peppers and tobacco and their tails broken in an effort to keep them moving.

     Please appeal to the Indian government to enforce those laws that already exist that prohibit such cruelty and to shut down the illegal cattle trade.   The Indian government is monitoring the volume of mail on this issue and needs to hear from YOU!

E-mail
Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee.  

Send a letter to Prime Minister
Atal Vajpayee.

Send a letter to
Prime Minister Shri Murasoli Maran, Minister of Commerce.