Vol XXXVII No 1 Spring 2014

Journal of Beauty Without Cruelty - India An International Educational Charitable Trust for Animal Rights

Inside: Eggs Recipes Gadhimai Ship of Theseus

Monkey business Beauty Without Cruelty­ - India 4 Prince of Wales Drive, Wanowrie, Pune 411 040 Editorial Tel: +91 20 2686 1166 Fax: +91 20 2686 1420 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bwcindia.org Child soldiers in butchers’ game In this issue ootinoru kunjadu means, “A little Editorial……………………………………………………………… 1 companion lamb” The Ship of Theseus…………………………………………… 2 in Malayalam. But it may Around the world………………………………………………… 5 have a deeper meaning. Monkey business………………………………………………… 6 A scheme by this totally Help stop Gadhimai mass misleading name was in ……………………………………… 8 started by the Kerala Fact, not fancy: Eating embryos………………………… 10 Ministry of Agriculture’s Egg to chick……………………………………………………… 11 Animal Husbandry Vegan recipe……………………………… inside back cover Department, in 2013, to encourage students Beauty Without Cruelty to rear goats. This to generate income without is grateful to hard work. Neither the and the Bhansali Trust reason nor the outcome impart desirable values for sponsoring this issue of in children – in fact, they are contrary to Indian culture, which usually by contributing ` 50,000 each. knows right from wrong. The cynical project Publisher Diana Ratnagar Beauty Without Cruelty Chairperson, BWC - India was implemented by is a way of life which causes Editor Ashoke Dasgupta Meat Products of India no creature of land, sea or air Designer Dinesh Dabholkar (MPI), which sold terror, torture or death Printers Mudra students four-month 383 Narayan Peth, Pune 411 030 old vaccinated lambs valued at ` 2,500.00 © is printed on paper at a subsidised rate of free of animal substances is the copyright of ` and published every Beauty Without Cruelty - India. 1,000.00 each. The spring (February), Unauthorised reproduction in any ` 1,500.00 subsidy per summer (May), monsoon (August) manner, without written permission animal was borne by the and winter (November) from the publisher, is prohibited. Kerala Government, using Cover: Rhesus Macaque. Photo: © Neeraj Mishra, www.indianwildlifeimages.com taxpayers’ money. Beauty Without Cruelty Astonishingly, the sold to the students as scheme only encourages Club of companions. MPI claims goat rearing – but goat- St. Thomas’ High School it is encouraging goat- rearing is cruel if goat- (Kallara, Kottayam rearing but this is a cruel, killing is the objective. District) selected 100 unethical scheme in which BWC feels it is disgraceful students from Classes V to children are encouraged to dupe school children by X to avail of this diabolical to lose respect for animal exposing them to animal offer, pressing the relative lives over time. exploitation schemes. A innocence of children into Having to sell their communication to this murderous adult service. companions for slaughter effect has been sent by us Under the agreement, is bound to affect pupils’ to the Chief Minister of MPI would buy the goats impressionable minds. Kerala.

Long-range meal plans. Photo Screenshot from the MPI website. courtesy: Shashi Kumar. back after eight months From guilt to disrespect Children can be taught of their companionship to and lack of reverence for more impactful activities the children. They would life: that is the road by to earn money in adult life pay the market price, or which violence and crime — if they have any spare live body weight, for each thrive and develop. time after attending to goat, meaning the going This information was their formidable course price of its flesh, skin and obtained by BWC under loads. These may include bones per kilogram. the Right to Information growing their own vegetables. It goes without saying Act. Surprisingly, St. E-Mail: [email protected] that MPI would buy the Thomas’ High School sees goats back to kill them, no cruelty in this scheme. though the goats were They, and the MPI, say the Spring 2014 1 Beauty Without Cruelty

guiding schoolchildren in conscientious animal rights The Ship of making posters on animal advocate: how to get well issues. He is a petitioner in (when one falls seriously ill) Theseus a case where he has taken without consuming allopathic by Ranjit Konkar a pharmaceutical company medicine, a product of modern movie plot featuring to court for conducting pharmaceutical practices that a person who has a experiments on animals. include the routine sacrifice stand on animal The director takes the bold of hundreds of animals (to step of showing visuals of rights has never been which the author can testify rabbits being subjected to the exhibited by the Indian film as an eye-witness) to test infamous Draize Test where industry before. the medicines on, through their heads are immobilised The writers of “Ship of in an Elizabethan collar, their systematically and forcibly Theseus” have dared break eyes kept forcibly open, and inducing the disease in that trend and, in the the animals (who are in no process, lent a visibility to way causes of the diseases animal rights issues that only afflicting humans) without commercial Hindi cinema (naturally) obtaining their can lend. consent, then systematically This movie may have been killing all the animals to test expected to be a non-starter their bodies for the effect of with audiences nationwide, the drug. He opposes this raised as they are on chicken from the bottom of his heart. tikka masala, antibiotics and The dilemma lies in the pain-killers. However, it is rather unpleasant choice he reported to have run to packed halls and boasted young has of choosing between a college students among its medicine that will save his viewers, such was the story- life, but has been obtained writer’s and the director’s by unethical means which he ways of weaving the plot. A poster for the film. Photo has spent a lifetime opposing, The film’s climax is the courtesy: impawards.com. and a principled refusal of the confluence of the three unethical product, which may shampoo poured into their simultaneous sub-plots lead to his death. eyes. For that scene alone, woven by the script writer This choice is one that a the director deserves our and brought to a common fate person who does not claim gratitude for showing the at the end. It is one of these ordinary filmgoer what goes to follow an animal rights sub-plots that has to do with on in testing labs. philosophy may not relate animal rights. to. His priorities are clear, The plot develops further into a The protagonist of the second situation where the teetotaller his mind unburdened by of these sub-films is a Jain muni contracts cirrhosis of the fate of animals (rodents, muni (monk) who is, to the liver, a surprising disease too). However, ironically but the surprise and delight of for him to have considering unsurprisingly, it is an issue animal rights sympathisers, it is mostly associated with on which most animal rights alcoholics. The muni goes proponents would decide through the dilemma that by favouring their personal plagues (or should plague) the safety. 2 Spring 2014 Beauty Without Cruelty

Animal rights reasoning proponent may respond to to evade death; or the most proves difficult for the this situation in one of the serious ailment but not the monk’s friends to appreciate following ways: lesser. This is actually a more though they understand Very, very rare: He fearlessly practical alternative, invoking it, academically, with takes death on and does not the principle, not in purity difficulty. Their reactions compromise on his principles. but, in degree. For example, of bewilderment, disbelief, This is the only option with one might take the crucial scorn, frustration, and integrity. He is free to try medicines and ignore the resignation are shown alternative remedies. His pain-killers, which are only realistically (once again, as objection is not to medicines for relief, not for a cure. the author will testify, having but to medicines tested on Another option on this path is personally observed these in animals. The world of drug- to take the required medicine others). The story proceeds free medicines is open to and compensate in some with the muni facing a life- him (assuming those have way to the animal world for and-death situation and not been tested on animals). the animals sacrificed by the audience’s engagement That world includes, to the medicine consumption. with it is in discovering how the best of the writer’s The patient could choose he deals with the situation. experience and knowledge, to serve time at an animal The decision he makes is treatments like naturopathy, shelter; stop using animal unambiguously on one side of ayurveda, homoeopathy, products like leather which the issue. and acupuncture. There may also involve killing animals; be others he is unaware of. donate to research on non- Since the lasting effect of It could include recourse to animal research on cures that sub-film is the message psychosomatic experiences to the ailment for which he it leaves in audience’s minds like meditation and yoga. The took the medicine, etc. This on the ethic of avoiding muni in “Theseus” is shown is the path of atonement allopathic (animal-tested) to take some local ayurvedic and repentance through medicines, and since that kadha without compunction. voluntary service. There is message is derived from the Seeing his life at risk he also the path of matching muni’s decision, the author succumbs to his human and sacrifice: he could think of wishes the script-writer had natural desire to continue renouncing something dear not taken so clear a black-and- living and compromises to him and that is his by right, white stand. An ambiguity with his principles. The to match in notion, if not in in the outcome may have compromise takes the form degree, the sacrifice extracted allowed viewers to leave the of considering the medicine from animals in testing our hall with divided opinions. a one-time exception to the medicines upon them. This director makes their rule (“Just this once but never Being of weak will-power decision for them. again, I swear!”) or a limited- when faced with the The muni’s predicament is utility intake (“Only for this possibility of premature one that hard-tests the animal disease, not for others”). The death, he capitulates rights proponents’ dedication “one-time” obviously remains completely, conceding defeat to their philosophy. It does unverified until the next time and admitting his weakness. so by pushing them to the he is afflicted by another life- This, frankly, is the reaction wall with its demand for threatening disease. of most people since one’s ties the ultimate sacrifice. With The limited-utility intake nothing less than his life on option may consist of taking the line, any animal rights allopathic medicines just Spring 2014 3 Beauty Without Cruelty to this world, to one’s family, the tails and swung to have becomes for us. The animal friends, and loved ones, to the their heads smash against testing lab corresponds to pleasure of living a full life, a hard surface; having their the slaughterhouse. The to maybe doing more with necks broken by being yanked neighbourhood drugstore one’s life, is strong. Added to apart by the laboratory corresponds to the meat that is the fact that the family assistant (cervical dislocation section of the supermarket. would not mind, in fact would method); gasping to death in No blood, no cries, no gut- desperately want, him placing a carbon dioxide gas chamber, wrenching to be witnessed. his own life above everything or being injected with a lethal The central objections of the else (particularly above the chemical to suffer violent animal rights community to lives of rats and guinea pigs, paroxysms before turning consuming animal-tested for whose sufferings few have limp and lifeless. medicines are: (a) that the sympathy). The patient is As for the non-rodents, the knowledge obtained from left feeling that he is inviting mind is shamed at the thought the process of animal- death to hold on to a principle of loveable beagle dogs testing is ill-gotten and for which no one cares. His being led to their deaths in unethically obtained, (b) that death would therefore be in return for the unquestioning, vain. childlike trust they place in us. For the non-animal-rights Or the intelligent, man-like person who wonders what chimpanzee, valued in testing the fuss is all about and why because of its similarity to rational, educated persons us and condemned to die at our hands because of its should refuse the life-saving difference from us. Humans medicines being churned out like to have it both ways. by pharmaceutical companies every day in the service of Would we be willing to mankind, witnessing the drug perform these procedures on development process would animals while looking each be edifying. If one is afflicted one in the eye? Would we be by a disease for which a cure willing to even witness these procedures? Would we want The muni. Photo courtesy: forum. is yet to be found, imagine the xcitefun.net. cure-finding process being to sanction such experiments carried out right in front of after seeing them? I hope not. Man has a queasy conscience. it is as wrong to benefit from one’s eyes: laboratory mice, But sadly, just as we leave our medicines obtained from rats, guinea pigs, beagles and meat to be produced by our ill-gotten knowledge as it chimpanzees being forcibly knife-wielding, apron-clad, would be to benefit from ill- injected with the disease experience-hardened, and gotten wealth, (c) that if one or germs, watching them dead-of-heart butchers, we wouldn’t have it done before slowly succumb to the germs’ delegate this unpleasant task one’s eyes, one shouldn’t have onslaught and wilt because as well to a white-collared, it done behind closed doors of the disease, then being degree-holding, English- somewhere far away, and (d) killed for testing in any of speaking “butcher” who that if one wouldn’t have done the following ways: for the instead of a knife, wields it oneself, then one shouldn’t rodents, either being held by “hands-free” methods of have it done by someone else, CO2 or uses his bare hands since it is just as wrong. on creatures a tenth of our The author has luckily been in size or less. How easy it then only a few situations of disease, 4 Spring 2014 Beauty Without Cruelty and has been successful in avoiding medicines by Around taking recourse to alternative medicines like nature cures, the world ayurveda, homoeopathy, by Striking protest never taking pain killers, by young woman was taking rest, relaxation, good A restrained in the UK, food, to assist his recoveries, force-fed, and injected with in addition to living, in cosmetics in a high street shop normal conditions, a healthy window as part of a hard- lifestyle with a vegan diet and hitting protest against animal daily exercise. These keep testing. Photo courtesy: mirror.co.uk. disease at bay. Jacqueline Traide was tortured on animals during cosmetic Ultimately, Man’s love for in front of hundreds of laboratory tests and raise his own life and his desire horrified shoppers in a bid to awareness that animal testing raise awareness and end the to prolong it (especially is still a common practice. practice. if struck by disease when The young) will drive him to The 24-year-old endured ten International and Lush hours of experiments, which take what is available. He is Cosmetics have joined forces to included having her hair the most powerful species in launch the largest-ever global shaved and irritants squirted in campaign to end animal testing this world with full control her eyes, as part of a worldwide for cosmetics. over all other species. He will campaign by Lush Cosmetics continue exercising his might The campaign, launched to and the Humane Society. coincide with World Week for over other species and push The disturbing stunt took Animals in Laboratories, was on in his quest for survival. place in Lush’s Regent Street being rolled out simultaneously For how do you persuade the store, one of the UK’s busiest in over 700 Lush Ltd. shops mighty not to use their might shopping streets. across 47 countries including and, instead, show mercy to Jacqueline appeared genuinely the United States, Canada, the weak? Who is to stop him terrified as she was pinned India, Australia, New Zealand, doing what he likes to others down on a bench and had her South Korea and Russia. when it is his writ that looms mouth stretched open with two Lush campaign manager large? metal hooks while a man in a Tamsin Omond said: “The It is hoped that the journey white coat force-fed her until ironic thing is that if it was a of Man’s parallel, ethical self she choked and gagged. beagle in the window and we were doing all these things keeps pace with the journey The artist was also injected to it, we’d have the police and of his physical self keeping a with numerous needles, had RSPCA here in minutes. watch on it. Or that a superior her skin braised and lotions “But somewhere in the world, species from another planet and creams smeared across her this kind of thing is happening may not overpower us to use face. Passers-by were thunderstruck to an animal every few seconds us for their experiments as we on average. use the hapless non-human to see Jacqueline, a social “The difference is, it’s normally species of our planet for ours. sculpture student at Oxford Brookes University, forced hidden. We need to remind Dr. Ranjit Konkar is an to have a section of her head people it is still going on.” associate senior faculty member of the National shaved. Institute of Design as well as The gruesome spectacle aimed a BWC trustee. to highlight the cruelty inflicted Spring 2014 5 Beauty Without Cruelty Monkey business by Khurshid Bhathena een the unique Alpenliebe Sweets’ bandar and bandarwalla role-reversal ad created by McCann-Erickson? If not, view it at www.afaqs.com/ advertising/creative_showcase/ index.html?id=22326&media=TV. It is refreshing and thought- provoking. Captured Langurs are made to chase away Rhesus monkeys. Photo Bandarwallas courtesy: Neeraj Mishra. Although the 1991 Government one, makes the poor monkeys Meanwhile, some madaris of India Notification does not dance to his tunes (literally), have taken to keeping langurs. allow monkeys to be exhibited play an hour-glass drum or The forest officials do not seem or trained as performing tambourine, wear colourful to want to investigate where animals, many such performers clothes, and even smoke bidis these langurs were acquired still exist. It may be because for roadside gatherings, at the from, probably because the government has not end of which the spectators many government offices implemented a rehabilitation drop coins into a tin and summon them to scare Rhesus programme for their keepers, the man and his monkeys monkeys away as the latter are the bandarwallas or madaris. move on to give more such considered a menace in Delhi. Rehabilitation talks with performances. Even the 2010 Commonwealth the Kalandar community Games in the city had monkey If we want to see an end settlements in Haryana fizzled police going the rounds. out following two public to such sickening roadside It is obvious why Rhesus protests at Delhi in 2000. They performances by monkeys, we macaques are increasingly could have started with the should not encourage them by seen in cities – not only in madaris of Dasna Village, on stopping to watch. the capital. The humans the outskirts of Delhi, instead. Monkey menace responsible for usurping their Though hunting wildlife Bandarwallas grew cautious habitat now consider them a is illegal, baby monkeys, after monkeys began to nuisance. The fact is, they have snatched from their mothers be confiscated by forest nowhere to go. in the wild, have their teeth authorities. Many gave up Humans now feel that, since extracted and are tortured into monkeys are a menace, their lifelong submission to perform road performances. Today, numbers should be reduced. silly tricks while tied to ropes. some sit with their old, ailing To achieve this without culling, The training is based on bandars outside the monkey government and wildlife intimidation, hunger and fear. god Hanuman’s temples, in the hope that devotees may feel organisations have been The bandarwalla whose sorry and give alms to a poor taking steps like the successful profession is a hereditary man and his monkey. Others sterilisation programme in have turned into magicians like Himachal Pradesh. those from Vijaynagar, another They claimed to have sterilised place on the outskirts of Delhi. nearly 70,000 monkeys 6 Spring 2014 Beauty Without Cruelty in their four state-of-the- Made to toe the line The Punjab Government sought art sterilisation centres by Teaching monkeys meant clearance from the Central November 2013. This was subjecting them to hunger, Zoo Authority to set up an done via vasectomy and torture and fear so they ultra-modern school to tame, tubectomy operations. A may work or perform. And, train, rehabilitate, and teach similar pilot project was also should the monkeys pluck manners to, rogue monkeys in launched in Uttarakhand. the wrong coconuts, they July 2009. Their plan to spend The Central Zoo Authority would be punished. There ` 1 crore on a “resource-cum- signed a Memorandum of was no doubt that the project rehabilitation centre” at Patiala Understanding with the fell within the radius of the seemed as ridiculous as the Primate Centre of California Wild Life (Protection) Act coconut-plucking project. BWC (USA) to find ways to address as hunting, banned in 1991, had pointed out that, though the problem. Monkeys that and the Prevention of Cruelty the name of the facility did can be captured are sterilised, to Animals Act for inflicting not indicate it was a circus, the whereas oral contraceptives suffering. Under a Ministry monkeys housed would suffer are mixed in foods given to of Environment & Forests just as much as those kept in roaming groups. Notification, monkeys are not circuses. We were assured that Monkey slaves to be trained. These monkeys such training would not take would obviously suffer a fate place at the time. Due to a shortage of coconut similar to those in circuses. Monkeys and men tree climbers last year, The latter’s performances geniuses at the Kerala Animal were banned due to the cruelty In contrast, the residents of Husbandry department, put involved. It was also possible Lehragaga, a Punjabi town near forward a proposal to engage that they could later, when they the Punjab-Haryana border, (read exploit) monkeys, in grew old and could no longer 40 kms. from Sangrur, never place of humans, to pluck climb coconut trees, be used hurt a monkey. When, in the coconuts. This would also for performing tricks or so- late 1980s, a monkey was shot, enhance the operation’s cost- called research and testing, the people paraded its corpse efficiency. Wild monkeys would which were also banned. through the town prior to be captured and trained like cremating it, following which a Although TISS replied that they the monkeys used for the same temple was built in its memory. were “concerned about animal purpose in Thailand, Indonesia Lehragaga is the abode of two welfare and nothing will be and Sri Lanka. groups of monkeys: one group done to the contrary” BWC lives inside the town while the Luckily for the monkeys, the hopes that steps to ensure the other group near a canal outside drawback of this proposal was proposal’s cancellation have the town. Legend has it that, that capturing them from the been taken by the government, centuries ago, the townsfolk wilds was illegal, and they and that monkeys will never had to plead with the monkeys would not be able to judge be slaves. Inaction, or delayed to return after shooing them which coconuts were ready for action, in this matter would away to the forest. A famine plucking. To its discredit, the encourage illegal hunting occurred during the monkeys’ Tata Institute of Social Sciences (finding and capturing) and absence. They continue to fear (TISS) began exploring the exploitation of wildlife. If the wrath of the monkeys, and possibility of training monkeys allowed, it may not be long have learnt to live with them. in coconut-plucking a year later. before monkeys are taught to It submitted a project proposal serve the coconuts they bring Khurshid Bhathena is BWC to the Kerala government. from the trees to restaurant a trustee, and its honorary secretary. Seeing it as wildlife customers, expanding animal enslavement, Beauty Without slavery and violating the Cruelty sent strong objections Notification forbidding the to the government and to TISS. training of monkeys to perform. Spring 2014 7 Beauty Without Cruelty Help stop Gadhimai mass animal sacrifice in Nepal by Rajeev Sethi oon after the 2009 that fifty percent of animals Gadhimai Mela (fair) scheduled to be beheaded ended, animal activists were saved with the help began heightening awareness extended by the Government to stop/reduce mass animal of India. sacrifices at the next one Beauty Without Cruelty and scheduled to be held later Animal Welfare Network this year. November 25th and Nepal worked together. 26th may be the main dates. Getting ready for the kill. Photo The Wrath of Gadhimai The Gadhimai Mela is held courtesy: travelyourassoff.com. written by a foreigner every five years. who attended the festival chanting; he anoints the idol BWC has vowed to do all it can in 2009 can be viewed at with kumkum and flowers. to stop/reduce the carnage, www.travelyourassoff. Since this is not enough to and has begun working for it com/2011/12/wrath-of- awaken the Goddess, a person in India and Nepal. gadhimai-gadhimai-festival. offers blood from five parts The Gadhimai Mela is held html. The pictures alongside of his body. This is believed in Bariyarpur, , have been taken from this to hasten the Goddess’s South Nepal, where about link. awakening. two to five lakhs of animals, Everyone is tense for the mainly young buffaloes, Mass massacre rest of the night, frequently are sacrificed. The others At midnight on the main night, beheaded are goats, ducks, people gather round a small looking into a big earthen jar, roosters, pigeons, and rats. idol of the Goddess Gadhimai awaiting a light to appear in Hundreds of slaughterers, placed below a pipal tree, it spontaneously, indicating equipped with swords, are while the chief priest begins the Goddess has awoken. employed to slay the animals in a barbaric and painful manner. Seventy percent of the visitors to the fair are from the regions of , Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. Consequently, in 2009, Beauty Without Cruelty approached the Union Minister of Home Affairs to stop the movement of animals across the Indo- Nepali border. BWC estimates

The last fearful lick of loving sympathy. Photo courtesy: travelyourassoff. com. 8 Spring 2014 Beauty Without Cruelty

The killing field. Photo courtesy: travelyourassoff.com. field where thousands of We request you to help animals, particularly young If readers have contacts male buffalo calves, are kept likely to help eliminate or at imprisoned. Forty-eight least lessen the mass animal hours of gruesome, bloody beheading of animals, the sacrifices in any way – like largest single animal sacrifice religious leaders, politicians, on earth, follows. historians, bureaucrats, TV/ This bloodthirsty event is said press journalists, famous to date back about 260 years, Hindi film/TV stars, when Bhagwan Chaudhary, a Bhojpuri artistes or any other feudal landlord imprisoned influential persons in Nepal in Makwanpur Fort, dreamt or India – we request them that his problems would be to please get in touch with us solved if he made a blood via e-mail at chairperson@ Beheading a calf. Photo courtesy: sacrifice to the Goddess bwcindia.org or post. travelyourassoff.com. Gadhimai. On being released, BWC will be grateful for all Possessed by the spirit of the he approached a village healer help. Goddess, a priestess begins to whose descendant, Dukha Kachadiya, started the ritual Rajeev Sethi is a BWC shudder and shake. with drops of his own blood trustee. Three hundred to four from five parts of his body. hundred men pick up swords This was followed by the and walk towards an adjoining sacrifice of five animals. Spring 2014 9 Beauty Without Cruelty

Unlike egg dishes like Density Fact, omelettes, fried eggs, boiled ¼ cup silken tofu can be used eggs, etc., the purpose of in place of an egg for baking not fancy adding eggs to other dishes cakes. First blend in a mixer Eating embryos like cakes, kneaded flours, and so it becomes smooth and batters is to impart certain creamy. by Nirmal Nishchit properties to the dish to aid its Glazing ll eggs that come from preparation or affect its final Oil mixed in a little water can traditional farming appearance and texture. be used to replace eggs used are fertile, carrying a The use of eggs can be for coating and glazing breads, live embryo within. Alongside successfully substituted with biscuits, tarts, and buns. are pictures showing the vegan ingredients, depending There are several commercially stages of development from an on their role in recipes, i.e. for made egg-replacers or egg- egg to a hatchling… a must-see binding, thickening, and so substitutes available. They for egg-eaters. on. usually contain ingredients Fertile desi eggs are often It is important for the such as potato, tapioca or corn mixed with infertile vilayati replacement to blend well, starches, cellulose, cream of ones from intensive poultry e.g. flaxseed wouldn’t work in tartar, nutritional yeast flakes, farms. It is also common for smooth batter. If more than and often kala namak. unwanted fertile eggs from two eggs are required to be factory farms to be palmed Just as soy is cooked with the replaced, it’s best not to use off for sale along with infertile same spices to mimic meat, the recipe, but if you must, ones. tofu spiced with kala namak then add a ½ teaspoon of is considered by vegans a No birds are kept beyond baking powder per additional good alternative, smell- and eighteen months of age in egg substitution, to help raise taste-wise, to eggs; especially the layer farming of poultry, the batter. as their capacity to lay eggs if scrambled or in a salad as a decreases. As they grow Some alternatives for each replacement for hard-boiled older their efficiency of feed purpose are discussed below: eggs. conversion also undergoes Binding Leavening a progressive reduction. Anything bland, viscous Eggs are added to baked Therefore, a rule of thumb for and thick enough to hold products for their leavening high egg production is that the ingredients together will property. They cause the uneconomic birds must be work. One egg can be replaced dough to rise, making immediately killed. with ½ an avocado or banana the product fluffy. Soda Non-veg to the core (sweet), ¼ cup pumpkin/ water, baking soda, or soda squash, puréed prunes (sweet) bicarbonate may be used for Foods containing eggs or applesauce (sweet), two baking cakes instead of eggs. A become non-vegetarian. It tablespoons tahini or fine mixture of vinegar and baking is mandatory for them to be bread crumbs. A tablespoon of soda also acts as a leavening marked with a brown symbol. finely-ground flax seeds and agent as their reaction Eggs unfortunately find their three tablespoons of water, generates the carbon dioxide way into many dishes passed whisked till gelatinous, can gas that leavens the cake. off as vegetarian, though the replace an egg, and is suitable A teaspoon of baking soda eggs are non-veg. for baking, particularly for mixed with a tablespoon of baking whole-grain items. white vinegar can replace an Similarly, chia seeds may be egg to make fluffier baked used. goods. 10 Spring 2014 Beauty Without Cruelty Egg to chick

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Texturising For every egg to be replaced in BWC Investment Guide 2014 baked goods, use ½ a mashed banana or a mixture of two The 9th edition of the Beauty Without Cruelty tablespoonfuls corn flour with Investment Guide 2014 two tablespoons water. As can be downloaded and saved from our website: mentioned above, a tablespoon http://www.bwcindia.org/Web/Info&Action/ of finely ground flax seeds and BWCInvestmentGuide/InvestmentGuide.html. ½ a cup of water, blended together until the mixture is thick, can replace egg white in several items. The texture of an egg can be approximated, in certain dishes, by other ingredients. For example, gram flour (besan/channa atta) can be used instead of eggs to make “omelettes” with tomatoes, onions, and green chillies. Such a dish is enjoyable in its own right without comparing it to the taste of eggs. It also does away with the objectionable smell associated with eggs. Thickening Eggs are often added to thicken gravies. Corn flour or arrowroot flour can be used as a thickening agent to replace eggs in gravies and soups. The Beauty Without Cruelty Investment Guide is meant to help But do beware of “fake eggs” the investor identify companies from the BSE500 list of January that can very well be non- 2014 whose businesses do not necessitate the conscious and veg and poisonous. They are willful infliction of physical harm, injury, slavery, or death upon made in China and consist any member of the animal kingdom. of calcium carbonate, starch, resin, gelatine, alum and other This Guide classifies companies under four categories: green, chemical substances. They orange, grey and red to help the investor decide whether to look exactly like eggs in a invest in the company or not. The colors carry their commonly fragile shell, and can even be understood meanings in this context. fried to perfection! However, it is essential for users to carefully read the introduction of the guide to understand the ratings given to the companies.

12 Spring 2014 Vegan recipe Bottle gourd ottle gourd is called kaddu, lauki, dudhi, bhopala, ghiya, laau, aal, churakka, jatilao, sorakaaya Band sajmain in different regions of India. It is commonly grown and eaten without knowing how healthy it is! To begin with, it has an enormous impact on high blood pressure and heart disease. It also helps liver function and urinary problems, reduces fatigue, fights constipation, helps acidity, indigestion and ulcers, acts as a nerve tonic and reduces weight. It is rich in thiamine, vitamin C, zinc, iron and magnesium. The juice from the leaves is said to even cure baldness. Dudhi Kofta

Ingredients Preparation 4 green chillies Koftas 1 inch ginger Grind green chillies and ginger to make a paste. 250 g dudhi/bottle gourd Grate dudhi. Add and mix breadcrumbs, 100 g bread crumbs turmeric and chilli powders, half the ½ tsp turmeric powder quantity of green chilli and ginger paste and salt. Add coriander and mix. Add a ½ tsp chilli powder little besan and make one-inch koftas. 125 g chickpea flour/besan Do not leave the mixture standing for 2 cups oil for frying koftas long as it will release water. Heat oil and fry koftas till golden brown. 2 onions 1 tomato, puréed Gravy Chop onion roughly and make coarse ½ tsp coriander/dhaniya powder paste in the blender. ½ tsp cumin/jeera powder Heat 2 teaspoons oil and sauté onion ½ tsp garam masala paste till light brown. Add tomato purée, remaining chilli-ginger paste, dhaniya ½ tsp sugar and jeera powders, garam masala 1 cup fresh coriander for and salt. koftas and garnishing Add water to gravy as required. salt to taste Boil for 2 minutes then sprinkle sugar. Pour over the koftas. Garnish with coriander.

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