Holy cow! India is the world's largest beef exporter

[Sarjen29]

Its only cow which is considered sacred not the buffalo in Hindu religion though India is a land of Buddhism and Jainism where product grown below the ground are also considered not worthy enough to eat.

Why not buffalo??

 

[Roybot]

A country where cows are sacred is exporting a record amount of red meat.
India was the world's top beef exporter last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, widening its lead over other more established suppliers such as Brazil and Australia.

That's because India exports large quantities of meat from water buffalo -- a member of the bovine family classified as beef by the USDA.

The buffalo trade has been growing rapidly and now earns India more export dollars than basmati rice.

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India's buffalo meat -- a chewier and cheaper alternative to beef -- mostly ends up on plates in Asia and the Middle East, where rising wealth is spurring demand among diners for animal protein.

But India's role in the global meat trade sticks out in the largely Hindu country where vegetarianism is widespread.

The cow is revered in Hindu culture, the religion observed by roughly 80% of India's 1.3billion people, and restrictions on cattle slaughter apply in most states.

Buffaloes largely fall outside those bans.

Still, the $4.8 billion annual export trade has almost developed by accident -- the animals are needed to keep India's huge domestic dairy industry going, said Rabobank analyst Pawan Kumar.

This is unique among countries with large bovine exports, Kumar said. It also means buffalo meat from India is cheaper. That helped the country generate record export earnings from the beef last year, although growth is moderating from the 30% annual rate seen between 2010 to 2013.

Here's where it all goes: Vietnam is the top importer, with Malaysia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia other key markets.

Then there's China, which may actually be the largest consumer of the meat, according to Rabobank's Kumar. Some 40% of Indian buffalo is sent to Vietnam, before large quantities make their way across the Chinese border. That trade doesn't show up in official statistics.

A small amount is consumed in India. Many locals, including some Hindus and others in the Christian and Muslim populations, eat meat and poultry, and consumption is rising.

Data from market research firm Euromonitor International shows sales of beef, lamb and chicken in India have all increased steadily over the past six years.

Rising wealth is a big reason for the growth. Analyst Anastasia Alieva said India's disposable income has surged 95% since 2009, and meat consumption has nearly doubled over that time.
Holy cow! India is the world's largest beef exporter - Aug. 5, 2015

Its Carabeef, aka Bufallo meat.

 

[Not So Good]

Its only cow which is considered sacred not the buffalo in Hindu religion though India is a land of Buddhism and Jainism where product grown below the ground are also considered not worthy enough to eat.

Every form of life is sacred in Hinduism

 

[nForce]

Sorry friend but I am vegetarian so no idea

It's okay.. I'm a non-vegetarian, better to put it as meat-eater, and I have no idea as well.

 

[Rusty]

Humans are meant to eat meat, so it's normal to have a market for it.
And cows don't exist in nature, humans domesticated them and basically made them, so nothing wrong with eating beef.

 

[Zibago]

i would love to try zebu kaleji(liver) karhai

 

[Soulspeek]

People here get confused by reading about high beef exports from India.

India only exports "buffalo" beef. So chill down everyone.

 

[HariPrasad]

sorry buddy but that's been dead for thousands of years. there're plenty of values been violated by hindus which also against the core principles of Hunduism, and more important than cow. what can harm eating beef

And i advocate to revive those values (Infact I do not consider them dead). Hinduism is on rise and you shall witness the visible rise of hinduism and its value system in this representative government.

 

[Rusty]

Every form of life is sacred in Hinduism

While the notion is very gran, it's also very meaningless.
Just by breathing you are killing millions of lives.
By eating vegetarian you are also killing the lives of the plant.

The only way to honor all life and to do no harm would be to kill yourself. but then you would kill the millions of bacteria in your body that need you to live.

 

[TopCat]

These are all cows leveled as buffalo....

 

[nForce]

These are all cows leveled as buffalo....

How do you know ? You spent the night with them ?

 

[Al Bhatti]

A question.

What do you do to stray cows found dead?

 

[Sarjen29]

And i advocate to revive those values (Infact I do not consider them dead). Hinduism is on rise and you shall witness the visible rise of hinduism and its value system in this representative government.

Totally Disagree ,No the Government doesn't represent Hinduism and its values,And your Idea of enforcing those Values on People is beyond ridicules. It's Secular India

 

[HariPrasad]

Totally Disagree ,No the Government doesn't represent Hinduism and its values,And your Idea of enforcing those Values on People is beyond ridicules. It's Secular India

India is secular by constitution and Hindu by its culture. You have much to learn.

 

[nForce]

A question.

What do you do to stray cows found dead?

Municipality comes, puts them on one of those trucks and dumps them away from the town in some dumping ground. The skin is valuable. So that may go to tannery too.

India is secular by constitution and Hindu by its culture. You have much to learn.

Culture of India is very broad actually. If you go to Kerala, you will find something different there from what you will find in UP. Again North East, say Meghalaya or Mizoram is quite different from Gujarat or Maharasthra.