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We are humans….
We are the most developed species on this planet earth…
We have the most active and powerful brains among all the species on this planet…
We follow the Darwin’s theory “survival of the fittest”…
We kill the weaker species and feed on them…

All the above give facts are true …aren’t they?

But some of the new practices of men have posed a question mark on the above facts. As man is becoming technologically advanced and developed, his progress is bringing some disastrous change in environment around and even in the minds.
One of such latest gruesome trend is Factory Farming.
Factory farming began in the 1920s soon after the discovery of vitamins A and D; when these vitamins are added to feed, animals no longer require exercise and sunlight for growth. This allowed large numbers of animals to be raised indoors year-round.
This was accepted in many nations as the cost of production reduced considerably, as the land cost, maintenance cost and feed costs.

Moreover, the high input costs of agricultural operations result in a large influx and distribution of capital to a rural area from distant buyers rather than simply recirculation existing capital. A single dairy cow contributes over $1300 US to a local rural economy each year, each beef cow over $800, meat turkey $14, and so on. As Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff states, “Research estimates that the annual economic impact per cow is $13,737. In addition, each $1 million increase in PA milk sales creates 23 new jobs. This tells us that dairy farms are good for Pennsylvania’s economy.
But, these plus points seem only meager infront of the suffering and harm to nature.
Along with causing harm to surroundings, natural bio diversity the biggest price is paid by the animals.

In some videos the bare truth is so harsh that I couldn’t even dare to watch full video .
Here are some shocking facts….
Pigs
It is estimated that 90% of all pigs raised for food are confined at some point in their lives. Pigs are highly social, affectionate and intelligent creatures, and suffer both physically and emotionally when they are confined in narrow cages where they cannot even turn around. Many pigs become crazy with boredom and develop vices like mouthing, and nervous ticks; others are driven to fighting and cannibalism because of their frustration. Pigs are born and raised inside buildings that have automated water, feed and waste removal. They don’t see daylight until they are shipped for slaughter. Dust, dirt and toxic gases from the pigs’ waste create an unsanitary environment that encourages the onset of a number of diseases and illnesses, including pneumonia, cholera, dysentery and trichinosis.

Veal Calves
The veal industry is notorious for the cruel confinement of calves. Calves are kept in small crates which prevent movement inhibit muscle growth so their flesh will be tender. They are also fed a diet deficient of iron to keep their flesh pale and appealing to the consumer. Veal calves spend each day confined alone with no companionship and are deprived of light for a large portion of their four-month lives

Dairy Cows
Dairy cows are bred today for high milk production. For cows who are injected with Bovine Growth Hormone, their already high rate of milk production is doubled. Half of the cows in the national dairy herd are raised in intensive confinement, where they suffer emotionally from being socially deprived and being prohibited from natural behavior. Dairy cows produce milk for about 10 months after giving birth so they are impregnated continuously to keep up the milk flow. Female calves are kept to replenish the herd and male calves are usually sent to veal crates where they live a miserable existence until their slaughter. When cows become unable to produce adequate amounts of milk they are sent to slaughter so money can be made from their flesh. The cows are kept in a holding facility where they are fed, watered and have their waste removed mechanically and are allowed out only twice a day to be milked by machines.
Turkey
The birds live mired in their own waste, breathing strong ammonia fumes, which burn their eyes and lungs. To keep them alive in these filthy, disease-ridden conditions—and to stimulate their growth—farmers feed them antibiotics. Because the birds are drugged and bred to grow so large in such a short period of time, their bones can’t support their weight, and many suffer from broken legs. Some birds attempt to drag themselves by their wings to reach food and water.
At the slaughterhouse, the terrified turkeys are hung upside-down, and their heads are dragged through an electrified “stunning tank,” which immobilizes them but does not kill them. Many birds dodge the tank and are still conscious when their throats are cut. If the turkeys’ throats are not cut properly—which happens often—the birds are scalded to death in the tanks of water used to remove their feathers.

This was all about suffering of the poor speechless creatures. But apart from this this also cause harm to the environment, usually the most fatal communicable diseases are spread in unhygienic as ideally provided by these farms. It is being reported that SARS was first detected in a owner of duck farm ( this has not yet received scientific confirmation yet).

Waste Pollution and the Environment
(1) The USDA reports that animals in the US meat industry produce 61
million tons of waste each year, which is 130 times the volume of human
waste – or five tons for every US citizen.

(2) North Carolina’s 7,000,000 factory-raised hogs create four times as
much waste – stored in reeking, open cesspools – as the state’s 6.5 million
people. The Delmarva Peninsula’s 600 million chickens produce 400,000 tons
of manure a year.

(3) According to the Environmental Protection Agency, hog, chicken and
cattle waste has polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and
contaminated groundwater in 17 states.

(4) Pfiesteria, a microscopic organism that feeds off the phosphorus and
nitrogen found in manure, is a lethal toxin harmful to both humans and
fish. In 1991 alone, 1,000,000,000,000 (one billion) fish were killed by
pfiesteria in the Neuse River in North Carolina.

(5) Since 1995, an additional one billion fish have been killed from manure
runoff in estuaries and coastal areas in North Carolina, and the Maryland
and Virginia tributaries leading into the Chesapeake Bay. These deaths can
be directly related to the 10 million hogs currently being raised in North
Carolina and the 620 million chickens on the Eastern Shore of the
Chesapeake Bay.

(6) The pollution from animal waste causes respiratory problems, skin
infections, nausea, depression and even death for people who live near
factory farms. Livestock waste has been linked to six miscarriages in women
living near a hog factory in Indiana

(7) In Virginia, state guidelines indicate that a safe level of fecal
coliform bacteria is 200 colonies per 100 milliliters of water. In 1997,
some streams had levels as high as 424,000 per 100 milliliters

What can we do about it ……….
The best thing one can do is…
TO TURN TO VEGETERIANISMvegetarian food is not just a treat for your taste buds – it is great for your health too. Leading scientists are now proving that what we eat directly affects the quality of our lives. While animal foods contribute to cancer, heart disease, obesity and many other killers, a vegetarian diet can make us healthier and much much more….
But some might find difficulty in turning vegetarian all of sudden so, atleast you can see to it that you don’t contribute in such inhuman act. In india factory farms are still less in numbers compare to other countries in the world.
Apart from that we as Indian hold a moral responsibility toward every fellow living creature.
In srimad bhagwad gita (chapter 14, verse 5) lord Krishna describes three types of qualities-goodness(satva), passion(rajah ) and ignorance(tamah). Each one of these binds human mind with their respective nature. Satva leads to selfless attitude toward work, rajah leads to workaholic nature and tamah leads to ignorance and laziness.
The point to note here is that it is said that food also varies in these three categories and the type of food taken by a person also reflects the nature and the qualities to be shown by him.
In verse 10 chapter 17 Lord describes the kind of food
the food intake of animals slaughtered in these factory farms (not to mention the suffering and torture they undergo before dying) surely lie under this category. So eventually even if we are forced to eat such food this will eventually lead us to ignorance. And ignorant citizens will not be able to contribute in building of our nation.
Even if one doesn’t follow hindism but at least as humans it is our moral responsibility to stop this massacre.
There are many sites which will give more detailed information about the suffering of animals.
Some of them are

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/factoryfarm.cfm

http://www.idausa.org/facts/factoryfarmfacts.html

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1547

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/factory-farms-in-asia-blamed-for-pandemic-473244.html

http://www.chow.com/blog/tag/factory-farming

http://www.petaindia.com/campaigns/veg.asp

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/02/factory-farm-workers-face-first-ever-felony-cruelty-charges/

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=West_Virginia_Turkey_Farms_Investigation_2008-Peta&Player=wm

KIRAN BEDI is a household name today. The name itself has become a source of inspiration to many and also a symbol of celebrated strength of a woman.
Her life is a tale of struggle and triumph of woman standing alone in a male dominated society. One of the most admired Indian celebrity, apart from serving the country for 35 years she has also been a lecturer, author of many books, coloumnist and she even has represented India in Asian tennis championship. She is a sought after speaker on social, professional and leadership issues. Apart from all she is an excellent mother , a homemaker and an inspiration of millions of people around the globe.

Kiran Bedi was born on June 9, 1949 to Prakash Lal Peshawaria, a landlord in Punjab was determined to educate his four daughters at a time when women were largely limited to doing household tasks. Both held unconventional views and this gave the girls grand opportunity to excel in their respective fields.

Kiran did her schooling from the Sacred Heart Convent School, Amritsar, where she joined the National Cadet Corps (NCC). She also took up tennis, a passion she inherited from her father, who himself was a talented tennis player. Later, she obtained her B.A. in English (Hons.) (1964-68) from the Government College for Women, Amritsar. She then earned a Master’s degree (1968-70) in Political Science from Punjab University, Chandigarh, topping the University.
She worked as a lecturer in Political Science (1970-72) at Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar until in 1972 which was very special year for her as this was the year in which she meet her life partner Brij Bedi and also got selected in Indian Police Service(IPS) which made her first woman to join the Indian police force. It is said that Spectators at the 1973 Republic Day Parade were amazed to see a lady at the head of the Police Contingent. The then Prime Minister, Mrs. lndira Gandhi was so impressed that she invited Kiran for breakfast with her the very next day.

In the police service she served in a number of different and challenging assignments that range from Traffic Commissioner of New Delhi, Deputy Inspector General of Police in insurgency prone Mizoram, Advisor to the Lieutanent Governor of Chandigarh, Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau and also on a United Nations deputation. She was the traffic commisioner during ninth asian games in Delhi in 1982 and Common Wealth Heads of Government Meet in Goa in 1983. She was unsparing in enforcing discipline on the roads. Due to presence of large number of cranes to remove wrongly parked vehicles – including that of the former Prime Minister, she was nicknamed ‘Crane Bedi’. Her dedication and devotion was awesome as in each new postion she brought new reforms in the old depilated police system. Many times she had to bear the heat of her superiors too.
Kiran Bedi also influenced other areas like control of narcotics, traffic management and VIP security. During her transfer to Tihar Jail as the Inspector General of Prison she worked relentlessly to give jailed convicts a new lease of life through meditation and spiritualism. She initiated a number of measures in prison management some of them are yoga , vipassana meditation, and redressing of complaints by prisoners. Her humane and fearless approach has contributed greatly to innumerable innovative policing and prison reforms.

All this she says was not possible without the help and support of her family which she says is her true assets. Her daughter Saina was born in 1975 after 3 years of marriage.
Kiran Bedi has set up two major voluntary organizations called Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation
with the objectives of improving the condition of the drug addicts and the downtrodden. Her organization has been applauded from far and wide. It was also awarded ‘Serge Soitiroff Memorial Award’ for drug abuse prevention by the United Nations. She has recently been appointed as Director General of India’s Bureau of Police Research and Development
Earlier, she was Police Advisor in the United Nations peacekeeping department, and has also been honored with the UN medal for outstanding service. She is also a widely read author, her works has been a source of inspiration for many of people who have lost hopes in the government system.
On jan3 2008,she has launched a website to make complains online for the people who are unable to register FIR or are facing some problem due to red tapism.
Based on incidents of her life a documentry is all set to realese “yes,madam,sir”.

“
Career Highlights
* In 1977, she put an end to the Akali-Nirankari Sikh riots at India Gate.
* 1979, as DCP (West Delhi), she broke up a 200-year-old illicit liquor trade.
* In 1981 as DCP (Traffic) she controlled traffic during the 1982 Asian Games efficiently. She didn’t hesitate to tow away cars and once even challaned the Prime Minister’s car for wrong parking near a car repair shop.
* In 1985, as DCP (headquarters) she ordered 1600 pending promotions to be made in a single day. Standing instructions were issued that if any file was not cleared within three days the person concerned would be called personally to explain the delay.
* In 1993, as the Inspector General of Asia’s biggest jail – the Tihar jail (9100 inmates including 300 women) she turned the unlivable jail into an abode of education. Said Kiran while joining her posting at the jail, “I want to transform this jail into an Ashram within six months”. She introduced many classes and programs for the inmates including those on basic education, meditation, yoga besides functions like mushairas, kavi sammelans, dramas and games, which involved the jail inmates. For her effort to humanize the Tihar jail she was honored with the 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
She has received many awards during her tenure.
Her life is a legend in itself, although the journey has not been very smooth but she came over all the odds and has truly earned herself a honoured place in the history of India.
A homemaker …
A reformer …
An inspiration …
A legend …
A phenomenon in itself
THATs KIRAN BEDI…

AND thats what you call “TRUE WOMEN POWER”…..

“

my refrences

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/kiran-bedi-1131.html

http://www.jeetegakaun.in/celebrities/kiran_bedi/

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/kiran-bedi-1131.html

http://www.igovernment.in/site/bedi-launches-website-to-file-complaints/

http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/kiran-bedi.html

http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/miscellaneous/kiran-bedi.html

http://www.indiavisitinformation.com/indian-personality/Kiran-Bedi.shtml

Remember the long ago when we lay together
In a pain of tenderness and counted
Our dreams: long summer afternoons
When the whistling-thrush released
A deep sweet secret on the trembling air;
Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows,
Black rose in the long ago summer,
This was your song:
It isn’t time that’s passing by,
It is you and I.

– Ruskin Bond

I HAVE had playmates I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days–
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies–
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I loved a Love once, fairest among women:
Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her–
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man:
Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly;
Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.

Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood,
Earth seem’d a desert I was bound to traverse,
Seeking to find the old familiar faces.

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother,
Why wert not thou born in my father’s dwelling?
So might we talk of the old familiar faces–

How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed–
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

UNIX-THE BABY BORN
The shortcoming of UNICS led Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie to join hands. Thompson wrote the whole source code in B language which did not gave the expected results so; Dennis Ritchie invented the C language which was right language at the right time. Then the whole source code was written in C language.
During that time PDP-11 was the most efficient and affordable mini-computer for commercial and educational purpose. The 6th and 7th versions of UNIX were released on PDP-11 and this helped in the spread of UNIX and this version came to be known as PDP-11 UNIX.

By late 1970’s there were many versions of UNIX. Among various different existing versions following are the most important ones:
BERKELEY UNIX
In university of Berkeley, California they developed their own new version from PDP-11 which was called 1BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). It had many new added features like paging , virtual memory ,vi editor , csh shell. Hence many of the vendors like SUN , DEC preferred this version compare to the official system V .
SYSTEM V
Once written in C still, different disk drivers wanted their compiler to be written separately in assembly. Hence Steve Johnson came up with portable C compiler. In 1984 AT&T got the license circulated, system V which was followed by system V.2 and system V3.4 later.

But by 1995 most of the companies had license for UNIX. And many versions existed in the market. Hence there was a need to standardise it. So IEEE came up with a project POSIX (Portable operating system of UNIX). This included set of library conformant most of these procedures invoke system calls but few can be implemented outside the kernel.

MINIX-OPERATIONS SIMPLIFIED
UNIX itself was far more expensive. In quest of big money, the Unix vendors priced it high enough to ensure small PC users stayed away from it. The source code of UNIX, once taught in universities courtesy of Bell Labs, was now cautiously guarded and not published publicly. The big players in the software market failed to provide an efficient solution to this problem.
A solution seemed to appear in form of MINIX. It was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a US-born Dutch professor who wanted to teach his students the inner workings of a real operating system. It was designed to run on the Intel 8086 microprocessors that had flooded the world market.
As an operating system, MINIX was not a superb one. But it had the advantage that the source code of 12,000 lines was available. For the first time, an aspiring programmer and hacker could read the source codes of the operating system, which to that time the software vendors had guarded. And one of them was Linus Torvalds. The structure of MINIX was very simple and the creator intentionally didn’t want to add more features in order to maintain its simplicity, there were constant requests from the programmers worldwide for the development of MINIX kernel but all of them were ignored by Andrew Tanenbaum.

It was then that a young finnish student Linus Torvalds came up with a fresh new kernel and approached the online community for further development of his project which came to be known as “LINUX”.

People do think that cartoons are really kiddies stuff or some even may argue that I like to live in some imaginary world and I do agree to some extent but it gives me strength to face the real world.
Some time when I m feeling really low, and when things don’t go well around me, then I just lie down and watch my favorite cartoon show. And my pain or agonies or whatever it is just vanishes away… like some magic trick. Tats how it works for me ….
There are times when I need I need something apart from inspiration and that relaxation and cartoons are the one I rush after.
I feel each one of us should have such a relaxing hobby or interest it fills loads of colors in your life.