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Cows causing chaos
Cows are a to be a big deal (ifml.)etw. (ganz) Besonderes seinbig deal in India. About 80 per cent of Indians are Hindus, for whom cows are sacredheiligsacred. Practising Hindus never eat beefRindfleischbeef, and to slaughter sth.etw. schlachtenslaughtering cows is against the law in much of the country. But the animals also cause problems. As males cannot provide milk or meat, they’re often to abandon sb./sth.jmdn./etw. im Stich lassen, aussetzenabandoned by farmers. There are now some five million strayherrenlosstray cows in India, and no one is sure what to do about them.
Sacred or not, stray cows damage cropNutzpflanzecrops, spread disease and to cause havocChaos anrichtencause havoc by wandering across motorways. Between 2018 and 2022, more than 900 people died in cow-related road accidents in the northern state of Haryana. Some authorities have put glow-in-the-darkim Dunkeln leuchtendglow-in-the-dark stickers on the cows to warn drivers at night.
The farmers are not really to blame. Unproductive animals are a financial burdenBelastungburden they can’t manage, but technology might help. artificial inseminationkünstliche BefruchtungArtificial insemination allows farmers to selectively to breedetw. züchtenbreed females. The existing strays are not going away — especially since Hindu nationalists have made cows a sensitivehier: heikelsensitive political topicThematopic. In the meantime, drive carefully in India.