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burma banned beef? are you sure?
The Cow is sacred not only for Hindus but Buddhist too and yes at one point cow slaughter was banned in Burma.
In 1885, Ledi Sayadaw, a prominent Buddhist monk wrote the Nwa-myitta-sa a poetic prose letter that argued that Burmese Buddhists should not kill cattle and eat beef, since Burmese farmers depended on them as beasts of burden to maintain their livelihoods, that the marketing of beef for human consumption threatened the extiction of buffalo and cattle and that the practice and was ecologically unsound.[29] He subsequently led successful beef boycotts during the colonial era, despite the presence of beef eating among locals and influenced a generation of Burmese nationalists in adopting this stance.[29]
On 29 August 1961, the Burmese Parliament passed the State Religion Promotion Act of 1961, which explicitly banned the slaughtering of cattle nationwide (beef became known as todo tha (တိုးတိုးသား lit. hush hush meat).[30] Religious groups, such as Muslims, were required to apply for exemption licences to slaughter cattle on religious holidays. This ban was repealed a year later, after Ne Win led a coup d'état and declared martial law in the country.
In fact I was just reading a article last week on another south east asian country which has banned slaughter of cow within a certain distance from Buddhist temples im trying to find the article now.