Source: San Juan Star
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, August 27, 2002: Member of the Indian Parliament Menaka Gandhi participated in a International Conference on Peace and Development in San Juan,capital city of Puerto Rico during the second week of August. held on the second week of August. Though she raised many eyebrows here by her comment on India’s population growth by referring it “fungus growth” she scored a point for her animal welfare movement in India. “Cows have not been sacred in India since the dairy industry took over, “she said, and added “I’d love to make them sacred in our minds.” She runs a shelter in India for 2,000 cows and other abandoned or hurt animals. She is also a founder of an animal welfare ministry in India.She claims that she with her supporters went to 590 laboratories to stop what she called “illegal and cruel” testing on rats, dogs, cats and other animals.There is a huge reform movement in India, she claims, stating that no new drugs has been developed by animal testing in the last 55 years in her country. She also said that anyone who kills any living things kills a human being.