We are collecting experiences and perspectives for a journalistic feature on children with disabilities and extreme heat. If you are a parent, teacher, special educator, health professional, NGO worker, researcher, disability advocate, or someone with relevant lived experience, your 5-8 minute response would be extremely valuable.

Are EIAs in India truly assessing the impact ?

The Sijimali bauxite mine in Odisha's story is repeating - Gandhamardan to Niyamgiri Hills, and now Sijimali. Mining projects approved with EIAs that downplay environmental damage, ignore long-term impacts, and treat forests as replaceable.

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ans pleas.

So, please don't get offended and try to think about it for once.

Most of us must be feminists, and I hope all of us are against female exploitation.

Basically the roots of feminism lie against reduction of female body into free labour and a baby machine, for intrinsic value that women have as well.

In dairy and meat industries, female animals are still reduced to baby and milk machines. Continuously pushed into cycles of pregnancies without their consent.

(I know they can't give consent but in such cases consent is considered to be not present, we aren't supposed to play with reproductive system of those who can't give consent.)

There are literal "r*pe racks" in these industries used to forcibly impregnate the female animals. Why don't we actively give it any attention?

Now some of you might argue intersectional feminism doesn't include other species, while i disagree, how does it make forcibly impregnating these animals continuously any better?

Some of you might say that male animals suffer in these industries too, while that's actually true, it's just another reason to boycott it. Male calves (including dry female buffaloes/cows) are sent to slaughter soon after birth. While asked farmers in my native village, they told me a "businessman" buys them, and the dairy my parents buy milk from said they sell their male buffalo calves to "nepali log". While the dairy owner tries to argue nepalis don't slaughter them, we know the truth. Majority of buffalo meat consumed in nepal is illegally imported through india.

Is it really fair to force a female into continuous pregnancies, just for milk? Food is a really really personal choice and please don't take offence in this, I'm only requesting you to think about this for once.

From a different angle, these industries have a huge contribution in unsustainable practices in india, while also lead methane productions