Adultery

Milk is a great blessing of nature. It is a complete food from the few months baby to the elder person. It provides the entire elements needed by a body for its development and growth such as protein, water, carbohydrates, minerals, fat and vitamins. It not only provides power but also enhances immunity to fight against many different types of pathogens. It is necessary for the growth of bones and for the blood clotting. It fulfills body’s calcium requirement. 100g of cow’s milk contains 3.9g fat, 87.8g water, 14mg cholesterol, 120mg calcium, 3.2g protein and A, B, D, K etc. A lot of eatable things can be made from milk like cheese; yogurt, ice cream, butter and in many other confectioneries. Milk has no perishable form.
Unfortunately, the human population is increasing in uncontrolled manner so it has become a great challenge to fulfill the human needs of milk. Pakistan is the fourth largest country for milk production of the world but still it doesn’t meet demands of the nation. According to a survey of Pakistan, almost 8.5 million livestock is raised by small and poor families in the rural areas and 35-40 million of rural population is dependent on livestock.
As Pakistan is developing country, a milk man has to face a lot of economic problems. We usually heard people using the word ‘‘milk adulteration’’ but most of us unaware that how it could be harmful. Most of the rural milkmen are uneducated and usually have a large family which depends on the income of milk. There are other factors like late age of maturity of animal, shortage of fodder and high disease prevalence which are also challenge for milkmen. So they add different adulterants like water, starch, urea, flour and vegetable oil in milk to increase its quantity. Another important thing which compels them to do adulteration (addition of anything which is not the entity of milk naturally) is that milk has less shelf life as 3-4 hours after milking. To increase its shelf life, milkmen add different