Cow blowing
Cow blowing,[1] Kuhblasen,[2] phooka, or doom dev[3] is a process in which a farmer forcefully blows exhaled air into a cow's vulva or anus to supposedly induce her to produce more milk. A tube may be used to provide some sanitary separation between the blower and the cow, although not every culture that practices cow blowing does so.
Information on the origin and efficacy of cow blowing appears to be scarce.
Cow blowing was the reason why Gandhi disliked dairy products, stating that "since I had come to know that the cow and the buffalo were subjected to the process of phooka, I had conceived a strong disgust for milk."[4]
The practice has been illegal in New Zealand since 2018.[5] In 2020 the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards revoked their 'Share Farmer of the Year' award over a dairy farmer's tweets about the practice.[6]
Distribution according to Plischke (1954)
[edit]| People | Area | Author | Year | See (also) | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalmyk (Mongolian people) | southern Russian steppe | Peter Simon Pallas | 1776 | ||
| Scythians | Herodotus | 5th century BC | (to horses) | ||
| Yakuts | Lena River (Siberia) | Gerhard Friedrich Müller | 1736 | ||
| Ethiopians | Ethiopia | I. M. Hildebrandt | 1874 | ||
| Kaffa | Friedrich J. Bieber | 1920 | |||
| Nuer | H. A. Bernatzik | 1929 | E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1951); Luz H, Herz W (1976) | ||
| Dinka | H. A. Bernatzik | 1930 | |||
| Baggara Arabs | Kordofan | McMichael | 1924 | ||
| Somali | C. Keller | 1894 | |||
| Oromo | Ph. Paulischke | 1893 | |||
| Wasiba (part of Haya people) | Kagera Region | H. Rehse | 1910 | Per Rehse, Wasiba insert their arm into the cow anus up the elbow for the same purpose | |
| Turu people | E. Sick | 1915 | |||
| Wagogo | H. Clauss | 1911 | |||
| Khoikhoi | South Africa | Peter Kolb | 1719 | ||
| Masa people | Logone area south of Chad | A. Rühe | 1938 | ||
| Chinese | Tung River (China) | I. H. Edgar | 1924 | Dadu River (Sichuan province) | |
| India | T. Murari | 1937 | Mahatma Gandhi (1927/1929) | phooka | |
| Alps (Untergurgl, upper Ötztal), Pfitscher Joch | 1939 | ||||
| Pyrenees | 1939 |
Literature
[edit]- Hans Plischke: "Das Kuhblasen. Eine völkerkundliche Miszelle zu Herodot,' Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Berlin: Reimer, Bd. 79, 1954, S. 1-7.
- H. A. Bernatzik: Zwischen Weißem Nil und Belgisch-Kongo. Wien 1929
- Isaac Schapera: The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa. London 1930
- Tadeusz Margul: "Present-Day Worship of the Cow in India." In: Numen, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Feb., 1968), pp. 63–80
- Florence Burgat: "Non-Violence Towards Animals in the Thinking of Gandhi: the Problem of Animal Husbandry." In: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Volume 17, Number 3 / Mai 2004, Seiten 223-248
- Hubert Kroll: "Das Zurückhalten der Milch bei Rindern und ihre Behandlung bei afrikanischen Hirtenstämmen." In: Milchwirtschaftliches Zentralblatt (1928), Jg. 57, Heft 22, S. 349-350
- Hubert Kroll: "Die Haustiere der Bantu." In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie Bd. 60, S. 247-248
- Sture Lagercrantz: Contribution of the Ethnography of Africa. Lund: Håkan Ohlssons 1950 (mit Karte zur Verbreitung in Afrika, auch zur Verbreitung des milking with dummy-calves ("Melkens mit Kalbspuppen")
References
[edit]- ^ Clancy, Shae (1999). "Cattle In Early Ireland". Celtic Well. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Sierksma, F. (1963). "Sacred Cairns in Pastoral Cultures". History of Religions. 2 (2): 227–241. doi:10.1086/462462. ISSN 0018-2710. JSTOR 1062065. S2CID 162204945.
- ^ "The Prevention of cruelty to animals act, 1960 (paragraph 12)" (PDF).
- ^ Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1927). The Story of My Experiments with Truth. pp. part 5, chapter XXIX.
- ^ "Animal Welfare (Care and Procedures) Regulations 2018".
- ^ Taunton, Esther (July 10, 2020). "Dairy farmer stripped of national title after offensive tweets surface". Stuff. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Sierksma, F. (1963). "Sacred Cairns in Pastoral Cultures". History of Religions. 2 (2): 227–241. doi:10.1086/462462. ISSN 0018-2710. JSTOR 1062065. S2CID 162204945.
- Laws relating to animal rights (Indian Laws)