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 well-being 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. Here is a letter from Dr. V.D. Mudgal, the Director of Project Directorate on Cattle to Laxmi Narain Modi, the Managing Trustee of `Bharatiya Cattle Resource Development Foundation' who wrote to them following an article in Pashudhan, a monthly animal health magazine from Bangalore on which had written on the extensive use of the drug: D.O. No. PA/1.9(2)/89-2132 Date 02/12/91 Sub: Use of Oxytocin for Milking Cows Dear Shri Laxmi Narainji 1) Observations of Pashudhan regarding hormone Oxytocin secreted by the posterior pituitary gland are correct. This hormone is very important as regards the "let down" of milk of cattle and buffalo is concerned. In real sense when we start washing of the udders and wipe out of the entire water by cloth, there is immediate secretion of oxytocin which helps and animal to "let down" of the milk. This secretion lasts for only 7 minutes and in case animal is not completely milked in that period, the rest of the milk cannot be drain out. If animal is fearful and even there is beating then also there is obstruction in the secretion of the hormone from the pituitary gland. Certainly it does not increase the milk production. 2) The practice of oxytocin injection in buffaloes is a common feature adopted by milk dairies and as soon as they come for milking they give the injection of oxytocin and they milk the animal. As a matter of fact, this practice should not be adopted. Keeping in view its secretion in milk and hormone secreted in the milk and consumed by the human will effect the other system. However, it is very difficult to stop the dairies from using it. Even some of the managers of dairies where animals is specifically buffalo is kept for this practice is followed non-stop. How should we stop this is a big question. With kind regards. V.D. Mudgal Inspite of the pidgin language, the facts are clear: (a) Oxytocin is used on cows/buffaloes to supposedly increase milk. It doesn't. However it makes sure the milk comes out -- specially in those cows that have been beaten or stressed. (b) All dairies use the hormone. (c) The government is aware of this banned practice but will not stop it in spite of being aware that this hormone is dangerous to humans. ( One interesting aside :the disappearance of the vulture is also being linked to Oxytocin. The theory is that oxytocin injectedto get the cow/buffalo to lactate quickly stays in the animal's body and in the body of the person who eats the flesh ( and the milk). Villagers in Haryana say that ever since oxytocin entered the vulture food chain , male vultures have either become impotent or the females are unable to lay eggs that hatch successfully.I am inclined to give some weight to this theory because no one has seen a juvenile vulture for a long time. Normally the ratio of adults to juveniles is 2:1. In a survey the ratio is now 9:1 or less.) With two government departments – Health and Animal Husbandry working at cross purposes , nothing is going to stop this drug except you. Go to your local dairy. If you see ampoules/injections and you find scars and bruises on the animals , this is an oxytocin using dairy. Under Section 12 of the prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and under the Food and Consumables Substances Adulteration Act and the Drug Control Laws , a chemist selling it can lose his licence, any shopkeeper can go to jail for 5 years and so can the dairyowner. Inform the police( file an FIR) and the Drug Controller's office – every city has one who works under the Municipal or District Commissioner and he has a large staff of inspectors . You can also inform the Director of Public Grievances This is a much more dangerous drug than heroin. It destroys human lives and is rampant in India. Each one of you who drinks milk has oxytocin flowing through your body. [Courtesy : PFA website] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
