Q104. Why do Hindus consider cows as sacred?

The cow gives milk, which every human being drinks from birth till death. The human mother drinks cow milk, which is turned into human milk and drunk by babies via the mother’s breasts. Then as the baby grows up it drinks cow milk in bottles and then in cups. Children and adults drink cow milk and eat foods made from cow milk. Foods such as ice cream, yogurt, cheese, curd and other preparations made from these. Thus, the cow is the most valuable animal to the humans. It’s for this reason that Hindus consider the cow as sacred and thus give it all respects by treating her like a mother and treating her well, because she (the cow) treats humans like her own children by giving us her milk. Even though the cow is an animal, the Hindus have appreciation for her due to her contribution to the humans (milk). This is the highest level of humanness, to be grateful even to the animals.

Those who are wicked and ungrateful, will drink the milk of cows and then cut her throat and eat her. The benefits of cows to humans: •

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They give the best food for humans, milk. Which the scientists’ state is the most complete food, full of vitamins, protein, and calcium. Cow milk is the number one food item for humans which is taken every day. Without cows there would be no ice cream, no cheese, no pizza, no yogurt, and so on. Cow dung is the best fertilizer and it’s also used as fire wood for cooking and heating, each cow produces many tons of dung each year Cow urine is clinically proven to be anti-septic (pure) and is used in medicine including treatment of cancer

It’s evil and wicked man-made ideologies that makes humans into killers of those who provide so many benefits to humans, cows.