Fwd: The Source of Silver Foil in Sweets{bY MANOJ VERMA,dELHI}

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I think this is good information and i want to share with all of you.MANOJ VERMA, AO, The Oriental Insurance Company Limited, Head Office, New Delhi Mobile No.9868235143

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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:23:26 +0530Subject: The Source of Silver Foil in Sweets

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USA, Aug 23 (VNN) - A couple of years ago, Indian Airlines, the domestic air-carrier of India had issued instructions to its suppliers to supply sweet without silverfoil called VARAKH. Do you know why?

Silver is widely used for various purposes in the market today. Silver is considered precious and its utility is enormous. The reason behind this is that silver reflects back 95% of the light energy that falls on it. The silver foils used for edible purposes is called VARAKH So what's so special about VARAKH?

This is what I would like to bring to your notice.If you keenly observe this VARAKH under a microscope, dont be perturbed if you happen to see traces of blood, stools and saliva of cattle or ox.VARAKH is a silver foil and we have no second questions on this, but to prepare this VARAKH important parts of the CATTLE/OX are used.

Intestines of Cattle/OX are obtained from the slaughter house. This is obtained after butchering to death the cattle/ox for beef and the parts which cannot be consumed: the intestines are pulled out of the animal and handed over to the manufacturers of VARAKH. Before handing over the intestines, they are washed in the slaughterhouse to get rid of the blood and other remains on these intestines in the limited facility that is present in the slaughterhouse. We are not sure how neatly this job is carried out.

Intestines are cut into small pieces and then are bound together as pages in a notebook.A silver block is placed in the middle of these bound intestines, and the whole thing is placed in a leather bag and sealed. Experts, who know how to make VARAKH, pound the bag with wooden sticks, till the entire bag flattens out. The silver block by this time turns into silver foil.

This Silver foil is then separated from the intestine pack and placed on paper.This is VARAKH, which reaches the market ready for use. Even staunch vegetarians, who shy away from egg, unknowingly consume this as a part of sweet, pan and arecanut. Some unknowingly consume this because of the additional taste that VARAKH provides.

Now the question is " Why the intestines of the cattle/ox? Why not something else? " The reason behind using the intestines of the cattle/ox for preparing the VARAKH is because of the elasticity of the intestines.

They do not get cut even after a severe pounding.This aspect is brought out in the magazine " Beauty without cruelty " and the Television show of Maneka Gandhi, " Heads and Tails " . In India, on an average an estimate indicates that 2,75,000 kilos of " VARAKH " is consumed. Can you estimate how many cattle/ox are sacrificed for just a bit of taste?

If you are surprised as I am, after reading this article, please inform as many as possible so as to ensure that we unknowingly don't consume beef.I would like to thank the authors of this article in Taranga, a weekly magazine in Kannada, for enlightening us.

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