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The Plastic Cow
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The Plastic Cow

34 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Plastic bags discarded in household trash and community dumps end up eaten by India's stray and abandoned cattle, and this film follows the consequences straight into the animals' stomachs. Dairy owners turn cows loose once they stop producing milk, or never house them at all, leaving them to forage in the same garbage heaps as other scavengers. Because a cow's digestive system cannot break down or pass plastic, the bags accumulate inside the animal permanently, causing slow, painful deaths that the film does not look away from. Karuna Society for Animals & Nature, whose contact details close the film, appears as the group confronting the problem on the ground. The film also turns its attention to how India reveres the cow as sacred while tolerating the conditions that kill it this way, framing the plastic-bag crisis as a case of religious symbolism outpacing actual care. The two threads, environmental waste and treatment of animals, run together throughout rather than as separate arguments.