Subject:SABOODANA MADE FROM MILLIONS OF "ANIMALS" ?
I am giving below rough translation on an article from one Nainmal
Surana published in Dakshin Samachar on March 31, 2010. Feel free to treat
this as you deem fit...or research yourself...
In Tamil Nadu, in Salem area on the road from Salem to Coimbatore
there are many saboodana factories. We start getting terribly bad smell when we are
about 2 kms away from the factories.
Saboodana is made from a root like sweet potato. Kerala has this root
each weighing about 6kgs. Factory owners buy these roots in bulk during
season, make it to pulp and put it in pits of about 40ft x 25ft. Pits are in
open ground and the pulp is allowed to rot for several months. Thousands
of tons of roots rot in pits. There are huge electric bulbs throughout the
night where millions of insects fall in the pits.
While pulp is rotting, water is added everyday due to which 2” long
white colour eel is automatically born like pests are born automatically in
gutter. The walls of pits are covered by millions of eels and factory
owners with the help of machine crush the pulp with the eels who also
become paste. This action is repeated many times during 5-6 months.
The pulp is thus ready as roots and millions & millions of pests and
insects crushed and pasted together. This paste is then passed through round
mesh and made into small balls and then polished. This is saboodana.
Now I know whey many people don’t eat Saboodana during ‘Agyaras’
treating this as non-vegetarian.
If you find it appropriate and if you think after reading this one
cannot relish Saboodana, pass on to those whom you want to save from this
tasty food.
Raju Bhogayata
Sales Manager
United Millers Ltd.
P.O. BOX 620, 40100, OBOTE ROAD, INDUSTRIAL AREA, KISUMU, KENYA.
Comments