Aha! I finally got the picture I’ve been looking for. Indeed, there are cows on the streets of Delhi in relatively numerous proportion (particularly to Minneapolis). For Hindus cows are considered a sacred animal and so they are not used for their meat. However, in the book I am reading there are five main cow products: (1) milk, (2) ghee (clarified butter), (3) butter, (4) urine (for religious purposes) and (5) dung for fuel. Just like anything, there are those who take the holy cow concept to a fundamentalist level, seeking to use the animal as a political rallying point for Hindus across the caste system, but this type of attitude is fairly limited. As you walk around among the city cows, though, you wonder how much reverence can be shown by allowing the animals in the city to be uncared for and subsist on garbage etc
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