The Plastic Cow
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2012
- A 34-minute documentary about animal rights, the film looks at the impact of our almost complete dependence on plastic bags, which we use and discard carelessly every day, often to dispose our garbage and kitchen waste. Not only are these bags a huge environmental threat, they end-up in the stomachs of cows, who, either because they've been discarded because they're not milking at the time or because the dairy owner is unwilling to look after them, have to fend for themselves and forage for food, which, like other scavengers, they find in community garbage dumps. Owing to their complex digestive systems, these bags, which they consume whole for the food they contain, get trapped inside their stomachs forever and, eventually, lead to painful death. The film is also a comment on the religious hypocrisy of the cult of the holy cow.
For questions, information and solutions, please get in touch with Karuna Society for Animals & Nature on +91 8555 200174 and +91 8555 289737 or visit their web site www.karunasociety.org
Please add subtitles to this wonderful documentary for our deaf friends.
Thank you so much for thia informative documentry. Pls don't stop making further such videos. ❤❤
Thank you for this beautiful, moving and very important documentary. I hope you reach a lot of people and that people take it to heart! We can all do our part to help by reducing the use of plastic, recycling, adjusting our diets, and staying in touch with this truth and sharing it with others. Thank you again, I am very touched.
This is a wonderful documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will share with all I know. many, many thanks.
joanne anand please watch videos of Jim Nduruchi
Thank you for this precious documentary . I put it on my page on FB...so that MANY persons get aware
Very well made documentary. Thoughtful, feeling, and honest. Hopefully it elicits the understanding and compassion and actions and awareness needed to start addressing and over time rectify the situation.
The immense amount of garbage and its effects on stray/discarded and wild animals as well as, subsequently, humans is not isolated to India. But perhaps it is an important and helpful point when a nation so much admired by the world for its spirituality and colorful shrines and religious practices loses its soul to modern amenities and the illusion of money. Perhaps enough hearts and minds awaken to start the movement back to common sense and humanity.
Well done Kunar!
Thanks, Suzanne. Beyond now seeing every cow on the road as a ‘plastic cow’, thereby implying some level of understanding of the situation, I really don’t know what has changed for those who’ve watched the film either here or at the numerous screenings the documentary has had all over. Be it the cow, animal rights in general or the environment, I think religion is currently contributing as much to the problem as is the growing consumerism. To be revered and deemed holy, as the cow and the river Ganges are, is a curse, I think, because it causes people to view them as being beyond harm or, at least, to be endowed with an infinite capacity to heal themselves. But, as you say, I hope we can find our way back to common sense, humanity and compassion before it’s too late.
Kunal Vohra don't give up and don't lose hope. It takes time for awareness to set in, reach the brain and then to create action ;) You're doing a great thing bringing things to peoples' attention.
+Susঠশপaটঠফnne Storck
😸বব।ভসফঅঃঅঃম ণচজগছফঠছঢডটবডঢঢ। হডবঠৃঅঋএআ
I think it's best to operate on the cow while she's standing, rather than lying on its side, which is perhaps one of the reasons why they use local anesthesia. It's inconvenient for the cow but not painful. But, you'll be glad to know that the cow is doing very well and, in fact, gave birth to a calf in April.
Kunal Vohra keep Cows in safe area
WHAT IS CRUELTY IS THAT YOU TREAT A DAMN COW BETTER THAN YOU TREAT YOUR LOWER CAST PEOPLE. YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY AND BACKWARDS, ROLLING IN COW SHIT, GOING INTO A TRANCE SMELLING COW SHIT, WORKSHIPING A DAMN ANIMAL & NOT WORKSHIPING THE TRUE & LIVING CREATOR GOD WHO MADE THE COW YOU ARE WORKSHIPING!! RATS, BATS, ETC.....THIS IS CRAZY, KEEP YOUR CRAZY RELIGION TO YOUR SELF & KEEP MARRYING YOUR OWN RACE.
Impressive - clear message placed in in NO SEA&EARTH POLLUTION
Very Nice video and I have now stopped using the plastic bags at my home and going to get this banned in my society. The truth is shown here, I urge to everyone to watch this video.
great documentation for importance of cow. just say to all community use plastic very rationally.. save nature..save cow
poshak patel proper disposal of plastic
I like the voice over as much as i like the documentary. congrats
A very interesting and fascinating insight into this much misunderstood problem.
peace4allbeings watch videos of Jim Nduruchi please
"...if they are no longer useful to us we let them go" Is that how you treat something you consider sacred?? View it only as how useful it is to yourself, and abandon it once you're done taking?
You don't have to hold conflicting views because of religion, there is always the choice to follow what you feel is right and then align your actions to that.
I think that's where peace comes from.
Also, I'm taking my own advice and aligning my actions to begin the process of cutting out plastic from my life. Thank you to this documentary (and the cows in it) for that push.
vegan jennybean Thats vegan logic for you
I just watched a Vice video about how our oceans are just filled with plastic. It's horrible.
This is insane. If only these animals could talk to tell us their agony and pain inside them. Even humans while consuming unadulterated food sometimes feel stomach discomfort or stomach flu or other gastrointestinal diseases. Imagine this poor animal with 53 Kilos of Plastic Waste!!!!!!!. We as humans have failed these voiceless animals after milking them to the last drop.
Really so bad ,all the persons should fight for the Rights of the animals.....
I broke down and cried a lot at 27:00 😭😢
God Bless The Makers of This Video. I have put it on my page on Facebook so that people will be aware of this problem and hopefully do something to STOP this cruelty to ANIMALS & MOTHER EARTH
I think we must start by reducing the amount of garbage we produce and recycling as much as we can. I don't know how much better cows are in villages because plastic bags are everywhere. The only solution is to ban these bags. But, you're right, the real problem is that we just don't seem to be able to comprehend the threat from plastic.
Kunal Vohra need humans to dispose of plastic in safe manner
Such a waste of this beautiful animal, and while it bears nothing on the disgusting conditions they live in most country's, its still disheartening to see. Especially when such a reserved, and respectable people like the Indian people's are able to neglect this amazing animals.
The cow should be the pride of every culture, it has given us food for thousands of years.
Very sad! It looks like we do not give a damn even after knowing how badly it hurts the poor animal.
Nice work..i appreciate your effort..
And seriously we all need to focus on what we do..
Danyivad for reminding me to choose conciously how i am to transport items. i have witnessed myself on my trips to beautiful INdia the sacred Cows eating plastic....living in North America i had become lazy lately....I choose to be consiously awake, responible. CLOTH BAGS
Pranam,
Valarie Williams Griffin surely proper disposal of rubbish is essentiel
Thanks for watching the film.
Cutting down on our use of plastic is, perhaps, the greatest contribution that each of us can make.
- Kunal
Please, ban plastic bags now.
International Coastal Clean-up week from Oct 6th to Oct 12th, 2012 it covers
the entire Coastal belt of Odissa (Bay of Bengal )
by Nature Drive Trust of India NDTI
That's the problem, isn't it? We start to take things for granted and when the truth gets too difficult to handle, we learn to ignore it.
Keep Cows in safe areas
I am amazed and seriously wonder about things shown here. Shit, shame on we people who worship Cow and to see this happenings. I wish to change the scenario in India. Integrated Solid waste management is the better solution to solve this problem. Thank you Kunal for the video.
Go Vegan India! Love the cows again like you used to do!
Clementien Paws mentioned the simple solutions. We should avoid the cows to not to access the garbage. Its possible solution by the municipals of the cities. Plastic cows is the only problem in cities, not at all in villages, where they live healthy. Its hard to educate the educated people not use plastic and its unavoidable at present.
Thanks for d vedio....it made me more strong nd left a very strong impact on me ....to save them nd raise my voice nd fight for them.
Thank youuuu
You're right, life is being corporatised and, really, I'm not sure if we can fight that.
Consider.... The fact that mankind has obstructed the free movement and pursuit of happiness of the cow... And all H'er brethren...
+PeaceProfit What a ridiculous statement. If the government of India won't clean up the garbage and implement a ban on plastics then at least sterilize all the cows and bulls so they don't keep having calves, thus preventing this cruelty to animals. If an animal, with no owner, isn't created in the first place then there is no existing animal living a life of misery. The dairy farmers should by law, have all their cattle tagged and then they could be fined for letting their cattle roam the streets, free to fill up on garbage. Where is the common sense? Certainly not in religious India. Religion ruins everything.
We don't need disposable plastic, it is a stupid idea. Lets move to designing reusable systems that don't result in plastic pollution. My great grandmother did not have disposable plastic, I don't need it either!
Why Indian government is not making a ban on the manufacturing of plastic bags ?
Whole problem will be solved !
Did they actually do that operation, pulling the plastic out of the cow with the cow fully conscious?
Conscious, yes, but she was under local anesthesia for the duration.
Yeah, I was kind of freaked out when I saw the cow was awake too. Poor thing. :(
Thanks for watching.
We must.
I’m so sad. One day I saw a cow lying on the road BLEEDING. I cried that day.
What's worse is that we're doing it knowingly!
Kunal Vohra true
The operator of this UA-cam channel or to the person who owns this video, Here is my request. I will be using very few footages of this video for few seconds in my shortfilm to cover this same topic in a different way. Please allow me to do this and do not issue a copyright, I will be giving your credits in the beginning of the short film. Doing this for a good purpose so hope you support
Thankyou
When done, kindly send a link to the film to me and mark a copy of that mail to karunasociety@gmail.com. Thanks.
There's compassion in general and, perhaps, more vegetarians than anywhere else in the world. And, yes, in spite of the dirt and the poverty, there's a lot of 'spirituality'.
Kunal Vohra proper disposal of rubbish needed
Harikrishna हरे कृष्णा गांव मारे रक्षा सेवा करने के लिए आगे कदम बढ़ाओ और का जीवन सफल बनाओ को हमारी रक्षा सेवा करना है करना है यह जीवन का उद्देश्य है गौमाता सेवा करो वह जागो और जगाओ कब जागोगे मेरे हिंदू भाइयों कब जागोगे गांव धीरज सेवा करना है तो यह देश पूरा बर्बाद हो जाएगा माटी रक्षा सेवा नहीं हुई तो घुमा दे राजा सीधा करने के लिए जय जगदीश हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे
जय गो माता जय गोपाल
In a piece I didn't use in the film, Clementien Pauws, who runs Karuna Society, said that, compared to India, everything in Europe is clean and one can't spot so much as a scrap of paper on the roads, much less the animals we see wandering about here. But, she said, there are huge barns in the countryside, where the cruelties of slaughter take place behind closed doors and the mismanagement is hidden.
wake up! stop using plastic!
wake up and stop using cows!
The cows here in the US have it FAR worse. I won't even say what I've heard, it's so disturbing to think about.
feel very bad for cow but from our family start to ban the uses of plastics bags etc...and try to awair more and more people on this bad situation of cow to protect our "GAU MATA"
How are things now September 2016
Agreed, tho, I think we have been largely "conditioned", or "taught" to ignore the truth when it becomes to tough. One would imagine that we couldn't just ignore the truth back when our life was always at stake if we simply ignored it, but now that we live in artificial luxury, we are willing to live the lie for it does not effect us as directly. At least not yet.
NeutralExistence please watch videos of Jim Nduruchi
In India, at least one knows what is going on and because one can see the problem, one can try to fix it. India has the best animal welfare laws in the world, although, most unfortunately, the implementation of those laws is pretty lousy.
Sure, we do have some serious problems with waste management and, yes, there is dirt and poverty too. But, don't let that stop you from coming because if you want 'pretty' there's a whole lot of that as well. Plenty of it to leave you amazed.
Kunal Vohra why not dispose of plastic sensibly
Before recycling, there is the segregation, at source, of bio-degradable and non-degradable waste. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen enough either in homes or by municipal agencies. But, having said that, many attempts are being made at various levels around the country. For instance, there are areas where plastic is being recycled to make roads. I believe a lot of the runways at airports also have recycled plastic. But, of course, given the scope of the problem, it's a long road to travel.
Kunal Vohra keep Cows in safe places if they are Sacred!
From now I reduce and reuse plastic
:-) thanks!
Kunal Vohra are things any better September 2016
Hopefully we will be able to fight it, because if we don't we are going to fulfill Orwell's vision of a boot stamping into the face of humanity forever, and personally I don't much like the idea of living in a dystopian horror film.
NeutralExistence please watch videos of Jim Nduruchi
Poor 🐮 s😞
On paper, there is a law against this but the problem is that we've all learned how to get around it. The cows are on the roads simply because of the demand for milk.
Thanks for watching this.
Hi, I wonder if anyone can tell me if this Plastic Cow Project (more specifically the documentary) has created any institutional changes on the official level. As far as I know, the Indian government listed whale sharks as endangered species after Mike Pandey's Shores of Silence documentary. So I wonder if such a powerful documentary like The Plastic Cow has generated any impacts of this sort...
I can’t say there have been any institutional changes…yet. But, yes, that’s what the film and the Plastic Cow Project are hoping to be able to do. The film is a small part of an animal rights case currently in the Supreme Court of India. The governments at the Centre and in the states, and many governmental departments, have been made respondents in the case, which is seeking a complete ban on plastic bags as an animal rights issue. The case was admitted by the court in May 2102 and, although there wasn’t much progress at first, we’re expecting something to happen at the next hearing some time later this year. You can find more information about the case, and everything else relating to the issue, on this link www.theplasticcow.org/what-is-a-plastic-cow/public-interest-litigation.html on the Plastic Cow Project website.
Many screenings of the film have been organised in different parts of the country, very often by people, groups and organisations that have no direct connection with the Plastic Cow Project. We’ve also just heard that the film is in the process of being declared as mandatory viewing in schools in Surat (a city in the state of Gujarat). Hopefully, this will open the door for the film to make its way into more schools across the country.
Kunal Vohra Dear Kunal, thank you so much for taking time to reply. I really appreciate it. Could you please answer me one more question with regards to animal consumption of garbage... In this documentary, the cows are the main focus of the documentary attention. I wonder if the buffaloes also suffer from the same fate? Are the cows the only free-roaming bovine animals? I remember in the documentary, it says something like plastic contents can be found in almost every single cows, I wonder if the buffaloes also consume plastic waste?
Chia-ju Chang
Hi Chia-ju, In one of her pieces to camera in the film, Clementien Pauws does say that her first experience of seeing plastic inside animals was when they did post-mortem on a buffalo, which had been sent to them by the local municipal organisation, suddenly died. So, to answer your question, yes, buffaloes too sometimes ingest plastic bags. I think any animal that has to scavenge for food will have some plastic inside them. But, to come back to buffaloes,, no, we don’t see them as much on the roads as we see cows. At least, not in cities and urban areas. In rural areas, however, one can still find buffaloes out on their own. I think owners are more careful with their buffaloes because their milk is more viable than that of cows and because, I think, they give more milk. So, in a way, they are more economically viable for the owners. Unlike cows, there’s no ban on buffalo meat, which means, except for the few male buffaloes they need for mating, etc, dairy owners sell the males to be slaughtered for either meat or leather.
53 kilos omg ...
🥵 how is it today - 10 years later?
Really? Can't say I've ever heard of anything like that happening.
Sir I'm a shortfilm maker, I'm doing a shortfilm based on topic that how humans are torturing animals.. in one of the plot I want to place very few clips from this when it comes to cow. We will be surely giving credits to your channel as well this video makers. I hope you support this for a good cause. Thankyou
Sure, go ahead but please do acknowledge use of shots in the credits.
@@GhostOfTomJoad Definitely sir. Thankyou
We could hope that this mentality will soon change, for if people keep thinking along the lines of self serving ignorance, then we will soon all pay the price for the actions of a few greedy people. Our fresh water is getting more, and more polluted by the day, and with companies like Coca-Cola, and Pepsi getting into the bottled water market, its only a matter of time before the only fresh water left is corporate owned. Next we will be paying for the amount of fresh air we intake daily.
NeutralExistence please watch videos of Jim Nduruchi
Don't fence me*in... Confine-Your-Waste.
i want song
Kunal Vohra respect :)
The last part of your statement is, I think, the crux of the problem...of any social problem, actually. That we don't react until we think we're being directly affected by the issue.
In rural areas male cows have become a great problem for farmers.
Solution. Recycle all plastics. Second create garbage dumps where cows have no access.
I agree with you. Being a hindu i'm telling you we have more contradiction than any other religion i known. In many cases Hindus have killed Muslims and Christians for slaughtering cows yet I dont know a single Hindu who does own a leather product (shoes, bags,etc). We consider cows holy and protest against its slaughter yet we are world's top leather producing country. Many humans in India lives worst than these cows. Over population and lack of education what is main cause of all evils.
Rohit84up need proper disposal of rubbish
must have been tortourous to shoot in the garbage dumping grounds.
You should search cow has plastic in stomach on the yt channel pet adventures the Luke guy pulls out so much plastic
The scene where the man is pushing away the calf while milking the cow breaks my heart. Dairy is not Ahimsa.
Ahimsa is not dharma....that's Gandhi bullshit. Cows are kamdhenu ,they have enough to provide and nourish.
Move Cows somewhere safe! Its obvious!
Now iam aware of this ear after i dont let my goat to go roam in my area and my frnds cows say nt to let the cows and goats to sray
poor cows... =( at least dogs, feasting on dead bodies along sacred river Gang banks, look good and healthy... =)
really very bad condition...v should strictly stop using plastic....pls avoid using plastic....
What I didn't hear in this doc is any attempt of India to recycle plastics, which does not solve totally the problem but can help a lot. Believe me, I am from a country where recycling is a sucessfully reality and even a business to many...
The problem is that humans whether in India or elsewhere see animals as secondary to their own 'needs' and have no real concern about the welfare of animals. Why is it always in 3rd world countries it is expats who are setting the pace of change with sanctuaries and looking after sick, injured and abandoned 'street' animals?.India used to be a spiritual country that gave us Buddha and yoga and Ghandi but now it is a country in deep moral decline whether in its treatment of cows or women.
cows DO eat like goats. bewildered why over the past decade more of the cow have come to join the "scavenge" on the filthy and foul dump for their preference, rather than turning away and seeking for pasture outside the site. that's part of cow's instinct and behavior for survival?study shows cows will consistently choose leaders for their intelligence,inquisitiveness and experience. the herd mentality is evident in the documentary. but the bovines' judgement in here is just as unbelievable.
THAT is what you take away from the film, Ms CharisNair? :-)
Well we think of cows as food and an offering to Allah the true one God during arafah
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This video depicts India as a massive population abondoning their Ideals, in pursuit of permeated corruption.
Seriously what the heck is this
eat them
Stop blaming the PLASTIC!!! The problem is not using CONDOMS!! If we INDIANS start using condoms it will fix half the problems our country faces. Less people, less garbage, more education, more resources...simple as that.
Rohit84up true
Rohit84up proper disposal of plastic