FAUN Demo/Vigil @ Indian Consulate NYC [July 4, 2011]

ON the eleventh of May, 2o11 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, the Jain Muni Shri Maitri Prabha Sagar was nigh on his third week into a hunger-strike in opposition to approval of 8 new, Western-style industrial-scale slaughterhouses, which, when operational will be torturing and systematically killing a collective of 20,000 animals per day for foreign export (profit). As if this hideous mockery of ahimsa, of the reverence for life which has permeated the thought, culture, the very soul of the Indian subcontinent across the centuries weren't bad enough, the government of Uttar Pradesh has chosen to vilify and treat as a criminal the noble Jain Muni, who was arrested and hauled off in a police car for nothing other than his protracted fast/vigil for the countless animals whose blood would be spilled so needlessly on India's kill-floors-to-come.

Jain Muni and a hundred of his supporters were arrested at midnight on the eleventh of May. Some of those in Jain Muni's group were beaten, though as pacifist Jains they posed no threat nor did they resist. They were hauled off in police cars and treated as thugs and criminals for their opposition to the advent of industrial-scale animal abuse in India. The proposal of these slaughterhouses is disgusting and Orwellian enough, the Indian government's actions towards activists who stood up to oppose the coming oceans of blood are unacceptable and the International community has an Obligation to voice their outrage at India's shameful political oppression. Join us at the Consulate of India as we stand in solidarity with Jain Muni and other animal activists in India and elsewhere whose spiritual/ethical convictions are such that they would (and have) lay down their very lives for the animals they're trying to protect.

A Jain monk takes a lifelong vow of to avoid all forms of violence against all beings , human or nonhuman and also never to use any kind of vehicle (animal or automotive). Never before in the history of India, has any Jain Sadhu been arrested and forced to break his own sacred vows for engaging in demonstration against policies of the state that protect wealthy companies (meat-industry profiteers), suppress public dissent & promote wanton violence -- the systematic confinement, torture & slaughter of sentient animals for profit.

Please speak out against this outrage, let the Government of India know you are opposed to their abusive, political, money-driven policies toward peaceful demonstrators, as well as to the environmental and animal welfare consequences of the introduction of mechanized, "mass-production" slaughterhouses in northern India.


**Take Action!**

*New York/U.S.A. Action addresses:*
*Consulate General of India*
3 E. 64 th St (btwn 5 th & Madison),
New York City, NY 10065

Tel#: (212)774-0600
Fax#: (212)861-3788

Express your outrage via e-mail :
http://www.indiacgny.org/php/showContact.php?linkid=196&sendTo=hoc


*India Action e-mails:*

Kumari Mayawati, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh: cmup@nic.in2

Uttar Pradesh Information & Public Relations Dept: upinformationdeptt@gmail.com

Directorate of Environment, Uttar Pradesh : doeuplko@yahoo.com

*Sample letter of opposition to India's proposed slaughterhouses & arrest of Jain Muni:

http://jaina.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/News/Protest_Letter_JAINA_to_Ms._.pdf

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