1. The dung cake as well as the meat of the bullock are both commercial commodities. If one bullock is slaughtered, its meat (slaughtering activity) can sustain the butchers trade for only a day. For the next day's trade another bullock has to be slaughtered. But if the bullock is not slaughtered, about 5 to 6 thousand dung cakes can be made out of its dung per year, and by the sale of such dung cake, one person can be sustained for a whole year. If a bullock survives even for 5 years after becoming otherwise useless, it can provide employment to a person for 5 years. Whereas a butchered bullock can provide employment only for a day or two.

2. As confessed by the butchers in Gujarat, they slaughter 70 bullocks every day, which means approximately 25,000 bullocks in a year. Thus 25,000 poor women, whether Hindus or Muslims, surviving on sale of dung cakes, which would have been produced by these 25,000 bullocks, are deprived of their source of livelihood which can sustain them for years. 

3. The entire Harijan community has become jobless as a result of the policy of animal slaughter and export of leather. This is so because the free availability of corpses of naturally deceased animals to them is now stopped. Now the living animals are slaughtered in the slaughter houses and the better quality of skin or leather is purchased by Corporate giants for manufacture of leather-ware or for export, whereas inferior quality of leather has to be purchased by the Harijan cobbler, after paying a price for it.

4. A builder in Bombay cannot build houses with mortar, i.e. mixture of cattle dung, clay and horse dung. Our masons in the city also cannot build such a house. Only the potters in the villages can build such a house. The potters used to build houses in villages using such mixture, and they also used to make roof tiles out of clay for such houses. In the present times, when houses are not made of dung and clay, there is no use for the roof tiles also, and thus the potter has lost his profession. With growing scarcity of dung, houses are no longer made of mixture of dung and clay and as a result, the vocation of making roof tiles connected with this system of housing has also started vanishing. As per government estimates, the shortfall of houses in the country is to the tune of 31,000,000 (according to "India:1993). The animal dung is the basic material to build houses in villages. If only potter families are engaged in construction of houses in villages, it will need 55 lakh potter families to build 3 crore houses. A similar number of potter families will be needed to make roof tiles, required in billions for covering such houses. Thus dung is the basis to providing an independent profession to about 3 crore potters in our country. However, with the disruption in availability of animal dung, lakhs of Hindu and Muslim potter families had to migrate to cities, and are now dumped as human scrap on the footpaths of large cities and towns. The potters have fundamental rights to pursue their own business or profession. As a result of lack of knowledge about their fundamental rights, they are unable to demand them in courts of law.

The above situations are just a few examples of how the Indian economy and its vast population has been adversely affected as a result of abandoning what is sarcastically described as "Dung Economy". In reality, the government machinery controlled by bureaucrats educated by western perspectives, working under the diktat of their foreign masters, have deprived the people of this country of their age-old professions by resorting to indiscriminate animal slaughter, and have thus pushed crores of Hindus and Muslims in the dungeon of unemployment and poverty. The government itself is to blame for the growing unemployment in our country. However, to avoid being blamed for this situation and to divert the attention of people from this criminal conspiracy, a cosmetic effort is made to provide employment to a few thousands, out of crores rendered unemployed, under various government sponsored schemes. None else but people themselves will have to rise to expose the government and draw public attention to the real situation so that the independent profession of crores of Hindu and Muslim brothers are restored.

Health of 12 crore women in peril!

The female population in our villages in the reproductive age group is 15 crores. They need utmost care at the time of giving birth to a child and immediately thereafter. For centuries, experienced midwives used to supervise and provide necessary care as per the principles of Ayurveda to women in village's time of childbirth. Two basic aids for such a system of care were a massage of oil, and fomentation on fire lit with dung cakes. The midwives used to massage the woman and new born child for 40 days after delivery, with the help of oil and slow fomentation, with the help of heated dung cakes. However, now the dung cakes have become almost unavailable. Oil also is very costly and hence, poor women are unable to buy it. Thus, if the necessary aids for providing care during childbirth are not available, what is the use of persons providing such care? And thus, lakhs of Hindu and Muslim midwives have lost their centuries old, ancestral and at the same time, very useful profession. Thus, on one hand, conventional and cheap medical care, available to crores of poor women at the time of their childbirth is snatched away, and on the other, modern and costly medical care is either not available or beyond the reach of the needy. As a result of this situation, in the absence of proper and timely medical care, crores of women get afflicted by various diseases associated with childbirth, and live a painful life thereafter till death. It is surprising that various organizations and social workers who claim to be working for the welfare of women, or scholars in the field of Ayurveda, or any women's organization have not uttered a single word against this criminal carelessness towards child and mother health or have never drawn attention to these problems! Western thinking and philosophy have limited the meaning of liberation of women, only to procuring liberties for women to indulge in shameless behavior, permissiveness and abortion.

Religious rights also snatched away:

In Hindu culture, there are 16 religious rituals (Sanskar) starting from birth (in fact there is one sanskar even before birth!) to death and none of these rituals can be performed without dung. It is essential to attain or provide purity to the mind, to the environment or surroundings, to the mental status and to the ingredients which are utilized at the time of performing any religious ritual. The place where the religious ritual is to be performed is cleaned and made pure by coating it with a layer of cow dung. A fire is often lit with dung cakes, sandalwood, gugal, etc to provide fragrance and cleanse the surrounding environment. It is not possible to do this on fire lit with kerosene or gas or electric stove. For purification of mind and heart while performing any religious ritual, one has to consume what is known as Pancha Gavya i.e. a mixture of cow milk, curd, ghee, dung and urine in defined ratios. The consumption of this mixture is believed to keep mind and heart pure and peaceful. As an automobile cannot be driven when its engine is very hot, similarly when the mind is not at peace, the religious ritual performed in such a state of mind does not give the desired result. For purification of body there was a practice to smear cow dung on the body and then take a bath. Purification of essential ingredients which are used for offering in the fire, is also necessary and one of the items is cow dung. With cow dung, small dry branches of certain specified trees and some other specified vegetation or herbs are also required. Till 1915, in the Indian Princely States where cow slaughter was banned, the pyre for consigning dead bodies to fire were lit with the help of dung cakes only. When dung cakes became scarce, this ritual was performed on wood fire. For burning an average dead body, four quintals of wood is required. With depletion of forests, even wood is scarcely available and wherever it is available, it is very costly. In view of this situation, in some of the villages now, a small bundle of burning grass is put on the face of the dead body and then it is buried. Thus the right of the Hindu population to perform even the last of the 16 rituals i.e. AGNI SANSKAR is snatched away. Of all the 16 religious rituals referred to earlier, starting from the birth of a human being, till his death, the AGNI SANSKAR is the last of these 16 rituals. It is a fundamental religious right of each Hindu. To protect this right, it is essential that the availability of dung cakes is increased at a very fast pace. When an adult bullock is slaughtered, it affects the Sanskar of 10 persons per year. If a bullock is allowed to live 10 more years beyond the age of its premature death by slaughter, it can provide dung cakes for Agni Sanskar of 100 human beings. If wood is forced (as it is now) to be used for Agni Sanskar in the absence of dung cakes, its cost would be Rs 15 lakhs per tree, as per the valuation done by scientists.