Covid-19 is the result of our Karma
The world may have conveniently masked its greed as entitlement and
continued its atrocities on Mother Nature, but Karma doesn’t look the other way.
India – A World Leader in Cow Killing And Beef Export
The strict laws against cow slaughter in the majority of India’s provinces have forced the lucrative cow beef trade underground. An estimated 1.5 million cows, valued at up to $500 million, are smuggled out of India annually, which some analysts say provide more than 50% of beef consumed in neighbouring Bangladesh.
“When you consider just how much money is made from underground cow smuggling, it becomes clear that not only is there a huge amount at stake, but a huge demand that butchers and slaughterhouses are catering to,” said Dr. Zarin Ahmad, a fellow at the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi, who has extensively studied the work and trade among India’s butcher communities.
LICENCE TO KILL
• India has 1,623 registered slaughterhouses in the country but only 213 registered milk processing factories and 793 liquid milk plants
• Maharashtra has the maximum number of slaughterhouses in the country (316) followed by Uttar Pradesh (285) and Tamil Nadu (130)
• Kerala, West Bengal, ArunachalPradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim are the only states where there is no restriction on cow slaughter.
• Kerala has 55, West Bengal 11, Sikkim 4 and Mizoram 2 slaughterhouses where cows can be slaughtered legally
More slaughterhouses than milk units in India – Neetu Chandra Sharma
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While India has 1,623 registered slaughterhouses, there are only 213 registered milk processing factories and 793 liquid milk plants.
Through majority of the Indian population follows vegetarianism, the number of slaughterhouses in the country are more than milk processing factories and liquid milk plants combined. The data was revealed in an RTI reply from the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
Interestingly, Maharashtra, where ban on meat caused a political storm last year has the maximum number of slaughterhouses – 316 followed by Uttar Pradesh (285) and Tamil Nadu (130).
Indian meat industry involves trading live animals and slaughtering animals like buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, bullocks, poultry and cows. The country recently witnessed a heightened political backlash over cow slaughter due to the religious importance of the animal. In many cases, when meat, other than that of cow, held sacred by the Hindus and a matter of conflict between the community and others, hassled to several altercations and even riots.
In Haryana, locals apprehended trucks when meat other than cow was being transported leading to law and order situations. The BJP also tried to make cow slaughter an emotive issue to appeal to Hindu sentiments during the Bihar elections. However, 24 out of the 29 states in India currently have various regulations prohibiting either the slaughter or sale of cows.
Growing beef trade hits India’s sacred cow –
For the last 15 years, Mongia and his team of 120 Delhi-based volunteers have thrown themselves in a battle that pits India’s billondollar meat industry and growing underground beef trade against Hindu traditionalists keen on preserving the holy status of cows.
This year, India will displace the United States as the world’s third largest beef exporter, behind Brazil and Australia. In just the first half of 2012, India exported $1.24 billion worth of meat, and a 30 percent growth in revenue from 2010 exports is projected by the end of the year, according to a U.S. Beef Export Federation study. The rise in demand could make India the world’s king beef exporter by 2013, according to USDA estimates.
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National Shame: India’s Beef exports surge in 2014-15
‘The export of red meat is steadily increasing this year and it may even go beyond an increase of 25 per cent compared to the previous fiscal,’ an official with the APEDA told The Sunday Standard. According to him, the figures are showing a steady increase in the first two months of this year as well. This is the first time that meat export from India has surpassed the export of basmati rice.” – Chitara Paul
India Is Top Seller In The World – Beef Exports Up 44% In 4 Years
Acding to a Times of India report dated April 1, 2013, India, homeland of the sacred cow has become the world’s leading beef exporter in 2013. Last year itself, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service forecasts showed that India would ship roughly 1.5 million metric tons of beef, passing reigning export champion Australia. It’s a remarkable rise from just three years ago, when this famously bovine-friendly country exported less than half that amount.
The Central government’s Pink Revolution to promote meat production and export has led to a 44% increase in meat consumption and export in four years, but it has failed to regulate the industry.
It certainly seems surprising at first, that a nation widely known for revering the cow would be a beef exporter at all.
According to data compiled by the animal husbandry departments of all states, meat from registered slaughterhouses increased from 5.57 lakh tonnes in 2008 to 8.05 lakh tonnes in 2011. Export earnings from bovine (beef and cattle) meat touched Rs 18,000 crore in 2012-2013. Indian beef exports for 2012 were forecast at 1.525 million MT, 25% higher than the previous year and an almost three fold increase in the past 10 years.
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India has become a large slaughter house for cows –
Maneka Gandhi
I have over two hundred letters on my table complaining about illegal cow slaughter. Many of these complainants are groups who have stopped trucks stuffed with cows and calves, many of them dead of suffocation and injuries, only to have the police take a bribe and let the animals go. Uttar Pradesh has become one large slaughterhouse for cows with Mulayam Singh’s government giving licences for meat export slaughterhouses by the hundred. Rampur, Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Aligarh, Agra, this is the Muslim belt and thousands of cows are brought in daily to be killed. From Rajasthan they pour in to Mewat which is a 90% Muslim district. From the other side of Rajasthan they go in the thousands to Gujarat where they are killed in Porbandar, Daman and Diu, and then the meat is taken to Mumbai.
Thousands go from all over Maharashtra to be killed at Deonar illegally. From Orissa and Bihar they are herded to West Bengal and go through to Bangladesh which has a beef export of 1 lakh tones a year without having any cows or buffaloes of its own. From Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka they are taken to Kerala where they are killed in the dozens of slaughterhouses on the border and then exported as meat to the Middle East. From Punjab, buyers with illegal certificates saying that they are for agricultural purposes bribe Laloo Prasad’s railway officials and stuff them into bogeys and take them to West Bengal. Delhi has 11,000 illegal slaughterhouses, small shanties in the slums that kill hundreds of cows brought in from Haryana.
The states where cow slaughter is legal in India
India becomes main world beef exporter in 2012, and probably 2013.
There a genocide going on with over two lakh cows being killed per day. This killing is happening hand in glove with the police and district magistrates who give false certificates every day allowing cows to be loaded onto trucks. The law is clear – not more than 4 cows can be carried in one truck. Everyday my organization catches trucks that have more than 50 cows in each.
Government looks the other way and boasts that we have the largest eather and meat export in the world.
The fact that the entire leather industry is made from the skins of illegally killed cows or that the meat has come from young milch cows and their babies is irrelevant to them. The police are delighted with this crime – each truck pays the chungies and each policeman takes home thousands of bribe rupees every day from this killing.
Every time we stop a truck, it is the policeman who defend and release the truck with its suffering cargo of squashed animals. Every week there is a cow selling fair in each district, supposedly for farmers. No farmer goes there to buy. The slaughter mafia bring their trucks and pick up hundreds of animals. One person who tried to stop this in Haryana was arrested by the police on the complaint of criminals, that she was stopping their work.
Go to Bihar – most villages have no cows in them. In Andhra Pradesh rustling is a major crime – people who hold up villagers at gunpoint and take their animals for slaughter.
One old woman who tried to stop a cattle truck in Gorantla, Anantapur was beaten up in full sight of the village and the police. No one intervened as the men had guns. Within ten years we will have no cows. The story of the tiger is being repeated. The government kept giving false figures to the world – we have 9000 tigers or more. When an actual headcount was done, we have less than 300 and the killing continues. We have more tigers in the zoos than in the wild. The same with the cows. Government has convinced itself that we have the largest cattle population in the world with one crore cows. Do a headcount – there will be less than 20 lakh left. Anybody in rural India can tell you that. Find me a cow in Punjab or Rajasthan or even Madhya Pradesh.
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World’s Biggest Slaughterhouse (cow killing factory) is in Hyderabad.
al-Kabeer Exports Pvt Ltd
Rudraram Village,Andhra Pradesh,Patancheru Medak, Hyderabad, 500033
The biggest slaughter house in the world is in Rudraram-Village near Patanchervu 30km from Hyderabad. Al Kabeer and Allana abbatoir in Hyderabad break several rules. Do you know that the biggest cow slaughterhouse (cow killing factory) in the WORLD is located just 30 km from hyderabad .in rudraram village near patencharuvu ..it is called alkabir in 400 acres of land with high security and many of the workers are Hindus.
The story of alkabir hyderabad Tyranny: Don’t think that these animals are killed easily and painlessly. Their agonies start long before they are dead. They are brought to Alkabir in trucks, from far away distances. For economy, 20-25 huge buffalos are stacked up in each truck. Nobody cares to feed them food, or even water while in transit. They are packed so tightly in the truck, that they are hurt by each other. By the time they arrive, they are no more capable of standing on their own feet! They are moved with force of whips . . .
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In the age of Kali, the poor helpless animals, especially the cows, which are meant to receive all sorts of protection from the administrative heads, are killed without restriction. Thus the administrative heads under whose noses such things happen are representatives of God in name only. Such powerful administrators are rulers of the poor citizens by dress or office, but factually they are worthless, lower-class men without the cultural assets of the twice-born. No one can expect justice or equality of treatment from once-born (spiritually uncultured) lower-class men. Therefore in the age of Kali everyone is unhappy due to the maladministration of the state.
— Srila Prabhupada (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.5)“In Kerala they also have a unique way of killing them – they beat their heads to a pulp with a dozen hammer blows. A well-intentioned visitor from the West, trying to improve slaughterhouse practice in Kerala, exhorted them to use stun guns, saying that the meat of an animal killed in this fashion (rather than having its throat slit) tasted sweeter. The stun guns that she left behind quickly broke and fell into disuse, but the belief that the meat was sweeter took hold – which explains this horrible method of slaughtering.”
The sentimental attitude towards animals prevalent these days in the West is alien to traditional India, as to the rest of Asia. But respect and reverence for all life is fundamental to Hinduism – most Hindus are vegetarians even today – and the prevailing attitude is enshrined in the Gandhian word ahimsa, “do no harm”.
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