India bans sale of unproductive cattle for slaughter

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The Indian government has issued tough new rules to suppress the trade in aged, unproductive livestock for slaughter — a move that will severely disrupt the livestock supply chain at the heart of the rural economy.

In a notification made public late on Friday, the government banned the sale of aged cattle for slaughter at the country’s livestock markets, and imposed strict documentation requirements for any sale and purchase of bovines.

Sagari Ramdas, who has studied India’s dairy and livestock industries for the Food Sovereignty Alliance, said the measures were a de facto “countrywide ban on the slaughter of cattle and buffalo, and the consumption of beef.”

The restrictions will cheer Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hardline Hindu nationalist supporters, who revere the cows as a semi-divine symbol of the nation. But they will dismay many farmers, for whom cattle is often their most valuable economic asset, even after it ceases to provide milk.

The new rules will further marginalise the many mostly Muslim rural livestock traders, who buy and transport unwanted or unproductive bovines from rural villages to larger livestock markets, where the animals either find new owners, or are purchased for slaughter.

Importantly, the new restrictions will apply not just to cows — whose slaughter is already illegal in several Indian states — but all bovines, including the buffaloes that provide more than half of India’s fresh milk. It is likely to prove the undoing of India’s $5bn in beef exports, which was in fact mostly buffalo meat.

“The rural economy is going to be smashed,” Ms Ramdas said. “This will be the total collapse of the livestock economy, unless it goes underground. The beef economy, the dairy economy, and the leather economy will all be completely destroyed.”

India has a cattle population of about 190m, and a further 108m buffaloes. These animals, mostly reared by small and marginal farmers who may own just a few, are prized for their milk, but retain a strong market value even after they can no longer produce, given the demand for meat and animal by products.

Mr Modi, a strict vegetarian, has previously bemoaned India’s $5bn beef export industry, which he described as a horrific “pink revolution” that should be stopped. His government has made cow protection an important policy priority, while India has also seen as spurt of vigilante attacks by rightwing groups on those transporting bovines.

Under the new rules — which have been added to the national prevention of animal cruelty law, those seeking to either sell or buy cattle must provide documentation proving that they are “agriculturalists” and that they own farmland. They must also attest to government officials that the animals are not being traded for the purposes of slaughter, but will be used for agricultural purposes.

“What you are actually saying is that slaughter is a form of cruelty,” says Ms Ramdas. “You are criminalising the entire element of slaughter.”

But the new rules could seriously skew the economics of rearing cows and buffalo, whose milk production may not be sufficient to cover the investment required to feed them, especially through the long, hot summer when fodder is scarce. “More and more farmers will stop rearing animals,” says Ms Ramdas.

According to the livestock census, India already has an estimated 5.2m stray cattle — many of them wandering through urban areas — abandoned by owners that no longer feel it makes sense to feed them, but who cannot find a market for them, due to existing restrictions on cow slaughter.

The number is likely to rise sharply given wide-ranging purview of the new law. It also comes at a time when India’s milk demand is set to rise sharply, driven by the hunger for more nutritious food among the increasingly affluent middle class.

Ms Ramdas says the new laws equating slaughter with animal cruelty could also pave the way for a ban on the trade in other livestock animals, including poultry and sheep.

Source: Finanical Times
 
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This Fascist Govt need to go down. Who gives them the right to ban beef in all states. F**king govt denying the basic fundamental right of Indian citizen. Meat is for eating not worship even if they ban slaughter I will import and eat cow beef
 
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This Fascist Govt need to go down. Who gives them the right to ban beef in all states. F**king govt denying the basic fundamental right of Indian citizen. Cow is for eating not worship even if they ban slaughter I will import and eat cow beef
Then next news will be that India bans import of beef into India.

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SaiyanGoku

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Why stop at beef? Ban cow juice (milk) as well. Cows are molested for milk. They are impregnated again and again at young age for increasing output and nobody bats an eye.
Center went full retarded.


Reason for edit: Was intended to be funny. :|
You squeeze a lemon, you get lemon juice. Similarly, you squeeze a cow's udder, you get cow juice. :p
 
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Pasapa

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Why stop at beef? Ban cow juice (milk) as well. Cows are molested for milk. They are impregnated again and again at young age for increasing output and nobody bats an eye.
Center went full retarded.


Reason for edit: Was intended to be funny. :|
You squeeze a lemon, you get lemon juice. Similarly, you squeeze a cow's udder, you get cow juice. :p

I never thought of it that way. *Cries in shame *

offtopic: Dude, your anime list.. what the hell.
 

Flash

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Why stop at beef? Ban cow juice (milk) as well. Cows are molested for milk. They are impregnated again and again at young age for increasing output and nobody bats an eye.
Center went full retarded.
Enough internet for today. :lol:
 

Darth Vader

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suck it not eat/bite it. Hence the Ban !!! :wink:

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Karma

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Great move by Govt.

Liberals in India have an issue when dog meat is being consumed in China, but here they create ruckus when beef is banned. Hypocrisy!!!
 

Desmond

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Great move by Govt.

Liberals in India have an issue when dog meat is being consumed in China, but here they create ruckus when beef is banned. Hypocrisy!!!
I am a liberal and I don't object to dog meat being consumed anywhere.

Hell, I will consume it if its offered to me.

In other words. What does it matter where you get your proteins from?

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TechGeek

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I welcome this move by govt


This law has come as amendment to existing Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

Main points

  1. Rules apply to seller and purchases of cattle.
  2. Cattle cannot be sold outside the state with permission of authorities.
  3. A seller bringing the cattle to animal market is supposed to furnish a written declaration signed by the owner of the cattle stating that the cattle has not been brought to market for sale for slaughter.
  4. States are asked for setting up Animal market monitoring committees at state and district levels which will implement the rules and supervise livestock markets.
  5. Upon sale of cattle, committee will take an undertaking that the animals are bought for agriculture purposes and not for slaughter, verify that the purchaser is an agriculturist by seeing the relevant revenue document and ensure that the purchaser of the animal gives a declaration that he shall not sell the animal up to six months.
  6. The purchaser of the cattle shall give an undertaking not to sell the animal for purpose of slaughter, not sacrifice the animal for any religious purpose and cannot sell the cattle to a person outside the state without the permission as per the State cattle protection or preservation laws.
  7. To check cattle trafficking on international borders, especially Bangladesh, rules says that no animal market shall be allowed in a place that is situated within 30 kilometres from any state border or that is situated within 100 kilometres from any international border.
If you read these above main points then you can see that it is no where written that eating beef is banned given that states allows it. Government has only restricted the sale, so that stop the illegal transportation and trafficking.


also another reason - Money from cow slaughter funding terror: Maneka
 

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I welcome this move by govt


This law has come as amendment to existing Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

Main points

  1. Rules apply to seller and purchases of cattle.
  2. Cattle cannot be sold outside the state with permission of authorities.
  3. A seller bringing the cattle to animal market is supposed to furnish a written declaration signed by the owner of the cattle stating that the cattle has not been brought to market for sale for slaughter.
  4. States are asked for setting up Animal market monitoring committees at state and district levels which will implement the rules and supervise livestock markets.
  5. Upon sale of cattle, committee will take an undertaking that the animals are bought for agriculture purposes and not for slaughter, verify that the purchaser is an agriculturist by seeing the relevant revenue document and ensure that the purchaser of the animal gives a declaration that he shall not sell the animal up to six months.
  6. The purchaser of the cattle shall give an undertaking not to sell the animal for purpose of slaughter, not sacrifice the animal for any religious purpose and cannot sell the cattle to a person outside the state without the permission as per the State cattle protection or preservation laws.
  7. To check cattle trafficking on international borders, especially Bangladesh, rules says that no animal market shall be allowed in a place that is situated within 30 kilometres from any state border or that is situated within 100 kilometres from any international border.
If you read these above main points then you can see that it is no where written that eating beef is banned given that states allows it. Government has only restricted the sale, so that stop the illegal transportation and trafficking.
Bullshit. It says clearly that the animals cannot be sold for slaughter. If you cannot legally slaughter the animal, how will you eat it?
also another reason - Money from cow slaughter funding terror: Maneka
*www.hindustantimes.com/india/money...rror-maneka/story-6EjLoTCotUI3TUBYeXm3oK.html
This just made me lol.
 
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