Jeez – and I thought “New Age” was out of control in America. Suggestion: stick with the Nag Champa.
Now Guess What Comes In Packages – Cow Dung Cakes!
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News Post India, Jan 9, 2008–Don’t be surprised to find packaged cow dung cakes sitting pretty with toiletries and groceries at retail stores here.
After cow urine or ‘gau mutra’, packaged cow dung cakes or ‘kanda’ have now hit the market and they are the brainchild of the city-based Gau Sena, which literally translated means ‘cow army’.
The Gau Sena, which has launched the product under the brand Gauvar in Jaipur, claims it has mixed many ingredients in the cow dung cake so that burning it could purify the environment. The cakes would also help keep diseases at bay, the organisation claims….
…Gupta said the product has cow dung, water of the holy Ganges river*, cow urine, rose water, cow milk, items of fire sacrifice – ‘hawan samagri’, rose petals, rice, clove, cardamom, the ayurvedic product guggal, camphor, butter, sawdust of the mango tree, ‘itra’ (essence), extract of tulsi, sandalwood powder and sand from the feet of sacred cows.
*Holy the Ganges may be, but it is well known that the counts of fecal coliform bacteria in the river are 3000 times higher than is considered safe in developed countries. The Ganges is one of the most polluted waterways in the world.
Addendum: Note resemblance between kanda (upper right) and Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies
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“Noni,” the “Vomit Fruit” « Things That Stink // January 17, 2008 at 8:23 pm
[...] Doesn’t sound very appetizing, does it? No matter, for the enterprising individual. Package something attractively, and make a host of vauge, inflated claims incorporating buzzwords like “health,” or “natural” or “environment,” and you can sell damned near anything. Particularly in America. However, other nations are susceptible to this strategy as well: recently, in India, this has led to the sale of what are essentially packaged cowpats. [...]
gog // April 15, 2008 at 4:05 pm
that is the grossest shit i have ever fucking seen in my life
Siddharth Apte // November 24, 2008 at 2:28 am
Burning of cow dung cakes without mixing anything with it can purify the environment. Is it so?