This Diwali bring love, even to them.
November 4, 2020
Hello to our lovely Ahmedabadi’s.
The festival of lights is upon us. Every year we gather with our friends and family and celebrate Diwali by bursting firecrackers . It’s all fun and games, right? But is this feeling the same for all living creatures?
The issue that we are about to put light on is something everyone has come across, but out of sheer selfishness, has ignored it. Even though humans live in a social environment, we couldn’t be less considerate about other species that live among us.
Let’s go through the effects of our super fun firecrackers on some animals, shall we?
Let’s start with our furry little friends:
The most common and helpless victims of Diwali firecrackers are cats and dogs. Even the pets who are safe in the home go through so much trauma because of the loud noise and bright lights of crackers that it takes them weeks to overcome it. Imagine the condition of stray animals who have nowhere to hide. The stray dogs and cats don’t just get hearing and vision disabilities; their trusting nature gets them horrible burns during this time of the year.
Flying high makes it worse for these little ones.
Diwali comes during the time of winters when the birds are migrating, especially towards our city. The light by firecrackers not only confuses them about directions but also causes them to go blind. The fire has also caused birds to have severe burn injuries, and many don’t even make it alive.
India, where Cattle=God
This shows the extent of our hypocrisy. We consider cows to be our god, yet every year cattle get harmed during the most auspicious festival. Many of them end up eating the waste of the firecrackers, which you so happily burn and leave on the street, and we don’t even need to explain how toxic it is. Except that the cows also get freaked out due to the noise and it ends up in a stampede that harms them and people or animals around them.
These are just some of the animals who are affected, and that too by accident. There are so many people who harm these helpless creatures on purpose and enjoy their misery.
We don’t mean to bring you down this Diwali. All we want is to spread the message that this environment is not just ours. Kindly do your part and avoid firecrackers, which are high risk to these animals (like Rockets, Parachutes, etc.), and enjoy your Diwali with low volume crackers. Take a round outside your house and see if a stray needs your help. If you find any harmed animal or bird, kindly contact your nearest animal care centre. This year let’s focus on sharing love. Make your family homemade delicacies and shower them with small tokens of love. The smile on their face will be much more exciting than bursting a cracker.
Let’s make this really a Happy Diwali!
We at Milkmor are doing our part and keeping our lovely cows as happy as we can. We don’t tie them or cramp them into small places. Our farm has facilities like sunlit sheds and open space for them to roam around.
As we always say,
Happy Cows = Happy Milk = Happy Subscribers.