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Subject: Fw: Vegetarians need to be careful.....!
INDIAN SWEETS WITH SILVER FOILS ARE
NON-VEGETARIAN
Indian sweets are often coated with silver foil/varakh. Not only with
sweets, these days it is also applied on fruits, also on Ayurvedic
medicines. The silver foils are used for edible purposes is called Varakh.
So what’s so special about Varakh? If you keenly observe this Varakh under a
microscope, you will see traces of blood, stools and saliva of
cattle. Silver
foils are made by hammering thin sheets of silver in middle of booklets
made of a bull’s intestines. In other words, after slaughtering a bull,
quickly his intestines are removed, and sold to the manufacturers of foils.
The skins made of old intestines are of no use. Even one day old
intestines can not be used, because within a few hours they stiffen. The
foil manufacturer removes blood and stools from the intestines , and cuts
them into pieces. Then he puts one piece over another, making a booklet out
of it. At his home, or in the factory, he puts one silver (or gold) sheet
in between each page. Then he hammers it hard until those metal sheets turn
into thin wafers. The intestines of bulls are so strong, that even
repeated hammering do not destroy them, or they do not let the foils move
around inside.
Foil manufacturers sell the foils to the sweet shops and temples. The foil
is not only dirty, it also is non-vegetarian. Even the meat eaters do not
eat intestines. Use of these foils turn even sweets into non-vegetarian
food. A few years ago, Indian airlines learned about this , and since then
stopped using them on the sweets served in their planes
The leather used for the pouch to hold the book (made from ox-gut) is cow
hide or calf leather. In India, 275 tones of silver is transformed into
varakh that utilises the intestines of 516,000 cows and calf leather
of 17,200
calves each year.
If you are as surprised as I am after reading this article please inform as
many as possible so as to ensure that we unknowingly don’t consume beef.
Courtesy: www.bwcindia.org
<http://www.whowehelp.org>
