Cows Eating Plastic
The animals probing for food stuff munch the plastic , along with the leftover food materials.
The plastic gets hoarded in their rumens and becomes very hard.
These animals appear healthy, but that is only an illusion.
They actually die a slow and extremely painful death due to obstruction and starvation.
Since most of plastic bags are knotted at their mouth ,
Cows , unable to undo the knot , eat plastic along with the food left over.
It is a harrowing and very traumatic experience for those who actually witness their surgery.
They are tormented by witnessing torture and distress of animals caused by plastic .
Slowly , over time, cows store huge amount of plastic inside their stomachs.
It gets entangled and obstructed and becomes hard like cement.
This is a worst form of torture and dreadful cruelty.
It is inexcusable and dreadful that such incidents are not dealt with a sense of urgency.
These facts ,though brought into public notice , are mostly ignored.
In big cities and towns, one can see many cows on roads eating from garbage bins,
Anything edible and anything smelling like food.
Plastic gets accumulated and obstructed.
Digestive system is neither able to digest it , nor it is able to move it forward.
Polythene stays in rumen of animal.
Cows lumber through the filth , trying to bite leftover food through polythene covers
They munch on rotten vegetables or kitchen refuse.
Many cows ingest plastic bags along with rotten food and garbage.
There is a huge collection of plastic in their stomachs with causes obstruction of their gut.
There has been very little effort to protect cattle from threat to their survival.
These benign bovines are doomed to a very poor way of life due to our apathy .
We selfishly throw garbage , ignoring the fact that many stray animals feed from roadside .
These animals unknowingly consume plastic by mistake , along with eatables..
Apart from plastic completely choking and obstructing gut of cow and causing excruciating pain,
Plastic residues also enter food chain through dairy and animal products.
The plastic in cow’s gut system affects the milk.
As their milk producing capacity declines , they are abandoned for ever.
