sparrow for sex?? come on!! give me a break!!

Sparrow meat is the latest fad among rich and famous of the city and that too for enhancing sexual power. As a result, landed thousands of sparrows from all over the city at notorious Crawford Market and are being sold openly.
Though some hakims in the city are making merry by selling the medicine made from sparrow meat, the experts have written off the claims.
According to Karim Khan, founder president of People in Defence of Animals (PIDA), the demand for the bird shot up suddenly after some hakims managed to prepare a medicine claimed to enhance sexual power. “The medicine, made from the flesh of male sparrow has suddenly become hot cake and most of the wealthy people in the city are the biggest consumers,” Khan said. The hakims in Pydhonie, Bhendi Bazar, Nagpada and Mohammed Ali Road are known to prepare the medicine and cliental include industrialists and film stars, Khan said. It is learnt that the birds are trapped from various parts of the city using nylon nets. “Since the size of the bird is small, large number of birds is required to make the medicine sufficient for one regimen,” Khan said.
Noted sexologist Dr Prkash Kothari has ridiculed the claim saying that there no medicine is available on the planate that can guarantee enhanced sexual power. “Sparrows and pigeons are supposed to be very hot blooded birds and hence highly prone to such myths. The entire thinking works on sexual signatures like swift movements of the birds. People assume that since the bird moves so swiftly, it would work on their sex organs too,” Dr Kothari said. According to Dr Ketan Parmar from Borivali, the good companion is the only sex enhancer. “It is all myths exist due to mass appeal,” Dr Parmar said.
The matter came to fore when volunteers of Plant and Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Mumbai stumbled upon the trade during routine visit to the market last week.
“I was surprised to see strikingly high number of House Sparrows in cages at the market during the visit last week. All the birds were in bad condition and were for sale,” said Sunish Subramanian of PAWS, Mumbai. It is alarming that on one hand some people in the city are trying to save the bird as its population is going down drastically and on the other, thousands of were being sold openly, Subramanian added.
PAWS volunteers posing as customers even purchased at Rs 40 per bird from a shop named Home Living World in the market, where three cages full of sparrows were kept for sale. “Being cramped in small cages, most of the birds were had severe injuries all over the body due to fighting,” he said.
The news has shocked animal lovers of the city also. “Sale of House Sparrow is really shocking news. I am not at all in favour of any kind of bird sale in those pathetic conditions at that market or any market for that matter,” said naturalist Sunjoy Monga. For a species on a shocking decline in so many areas, this kind of sale must be stopped immediately and it doesn’t matter what the status position of the species is. It sets a bad and disturbing precedent, Monga said.