Holy Cow

Around the northern suburbs of Mumbai we often see the beloved holy cows of India. I was walking back from the shop the other day and passed two just walking up the street, some sit on the street outside the house and moo to each other, some younger cows are painted up, pulling religious carts with minders asking/guilting all to give a donation. The cows can hold up traffic if they feel like it, I've nearly hit one on the Enfield when I was overtaking a rickshaw on an arterial road and to my surprise a cow had decided to take a rest on the pavement against the median...
We've heard stories that the cows wandering the city areas eat from the garbage sites often suffer a slow death from eating plastic bags.. We've seen it in action at the garbage sites. Household organic and inorganic waste is deposited on the pavement in the village for all the crows, stray dogs, cats and cows to consume. It may sit for a few days before the local BMC or council workers collect it by hand..
Not much of a life for many of the animals least of all the Holy Cow.. or for the council workers for that matter..

Click on the pic to read the news article, but in short, 30kg of plastic was found in the cow once it had received treatment..