But then only the slaughter would be prohibited, while the opening articles says that the possession or sale is prohibited, that then includes beef that was bought from other states. This however shows that it has mainly religious reasons and that is the problem, because of the seperation of religion and state! How can the state bring a law that is taken to account just one religion, when India has religious freedom? Moreover, how can they allow the slaughter of some buffaloes, only because it's seen as less quality beef? Isn't that showing the inconstancy of the law itself?
Dear Sancho,
I have been following your post in many of the Indian defence section from Almost last 4 years.. Tell me one thing, is safeguarding the sentiments of Hindus becomes Anti Muslim/Christen? Where in the Koran or Bible it is written that killing cow lineage and eating their flesh is supposed to be religious work in those two Abrahamic religions? The economic factor which benefits is a added advantage by banning the slaughter of cows.. For long term cows and bullocks would be quite beneficial. How can a respectable PDF TT like you can perceive this in the religious color? And be informed, I respect you, so can't go personal on you by any means..
For your information, the number of indigenous cows in India has been decreased by about 9% in 2012 and currently it is near to 12% compared to last census. Very soon we might face a situation where indian cows and their lineage would be endangered. It is hard to see cows and bullocks in villages now a days. My family who has old farming business, experienced drop in family earning once number of livestock reduced...
The importance of cows to India’s economy, therefore, just cannot be underestimated. India is the world’s largest producer of milk. A whopping 68 percent of these milch animals are owned by small and landless farmers; their produce is distributed through over one lakh village milk cooperatives, which have more than 1.1 crore members. These arteries interconnect every strata of the country. In fact, milk is a bigger driving force for India’s agro-economy than paddy, wheat or sugar...
But in a mere 10 years, all of this could disappear. India is at the precipice of a disaster that no one seems to be trying to avert. In the run up to India’s 66th Republic year, here’s a really sobering thought: the indigenous Indian cow — one of the country’s biggest assets — will soon cease to exist and we will be forced to import milk within a decade. This is going to have catastrophic and unimagined impact on lakhs of people...
l lack of government planning and foresight is responsible for this. India does possess the world’s biggest cattle herd, but typically, the individual yield of these malnourished cows is very low. Merely helping small farmers increase their cows’ food and water intake could have had miraculous results. (Indian cows, for instance, are doing really well in Brazil. In 2011, a pure Gir named Quimbanda Cal broke its own 2010 record of delivering 10,230 kilolitres of milk a year, with a daily yield of 56.17 kilolitres.) But instead of focusing on — and improving — the reasons why the yield of these cows was low in India, the government in the 1960s started crossbreeding Indian cows with imported bulls and semen...
About your buffalo question, perhaps you are correct. Not denying that.. But then there might be flaws in many of the laws passed by Indian/state governments.
Regards...