Cow protection bill: choice or need?

Today, it started with a simple chat with an old chat cum phone friend of mine.
We know each other for at-least half a decade. He recently gave  IAS mains and waiting for his result. The conversation started off with 'What are your views about government trying to pass bill to stop the killing of cows in the country?' I asked him.
As against my hope he said, its like forcing your choice to some one. Alright If you don't want to have meat or beef, go on don't have but you can't ask others to not have it. I was pretty much shocked.
Killing in any form is not a matter of choice, its a crime and bigger it becomes if you kill the more innocent one.

Cow is the mother, and I am saying not because I am a Hindu. She nurtures everyone irrespective of their religions.
Our country has been a country where most of the people dwell on agriculture. Cow, through out her lifespan is important for our survival. Cow when gives birth to her calf, provide enough milk not for calf but also for our consumption. Her male counter helps to plough field in traditional agriculture methods which are still being practiced in many parts of the country. Even when not milching her gobar is useful manure for fields and many researches have found that cow urine is a very good insecticide for crops and bio-fertilizer. In various Ayurveda medicines cow- urine is an important component.

His next comment was if a cow is a milching one, we should spare it, otherwise when cow becomes old we can kill her and use her as beef and leather.
What kind of statement is that? It really scared me, what is the thought process people are holding.
Our thinking has so much blinded by consumerism and short term self interest that we have forgotten our roots. Our ancestors were Arya who consider even a small gesture of generosity to be reciprocated even if it costs their lives. And here we are talking about cow, whose whole life is paropkara.

Arjuna, on the verge of his 13 year vanwas and while serving the last moments of agyaat vas, which was most vulnerable period of the lives of pandavas of being discovered and to repeat the vicious circle of vanvas and agyat again, when found that cows Virata's(country where the pandavas were spending their 13th year of vanwas) in danger, put his and his brothers'  whole tapa of 13 years at stake and without a second thought went out to protect her.

We don't judge our mothers milching or non milching, she would bless us and we could win the biggest battle of our lives smoothly even though she would look weak and disabled outside.
The biggest enemy in our country today is poverty, addiction of drugs and alcohol in youth.
This is the moment we need the blessing of our mother, cow is the mother of our nation we should protect her, need her to bless us so we can win these battles and emerge again as the iconic nation we once used to be.