#beefban

• President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 1995, nearly 19 years after the Maharashtra Assembly passed the Bill during the BJP-Shiv Sena rule in 1995.
• Slaughter of cows was previously prohibited in the state under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act of 1976
•   allow slaughter of water buffaloes, which provides carabeef [25% of the total beef market]
•  found selling beef or in possession of it can be jailed for 5 years and fined Rs 10,000
• poor man’s meat, costs almost a third of mutton.

Maharashtra joins many other states where cow slaughter is banned.
Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Punjab, Odisha, Puducherry, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, Delhi, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh all have bans on cow slaughter. The implementation of the law differs from state to state depending on the political climate.

Daman & Diu and Goa permit slaughter of those cows which are old or sick, or for medical purposes. Other states such as West Bengal allow slaughter of all cattle but require a 'fit for slaughter' certificate.

Bulls and bullocks, and buffaloes are permitted to be sold and eaten in most states even where cow slaughter is banned. But some states—Rajasthan, Punjab, J&K and Himachal Pradesh—have more stringent laws that ban the slaughter of all cattle.

On the opposite end are states such as Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland, that allow slaughter of all cattle, and do not require any certificate. They are in a minority.

No national law banning the sale or consumption of beef.

None of the state laws explicitly ban beef eating either.

Bans on cow slaughter have fuelled an underground business

Over a quarter of India's population is scheduled tribes and scheduled castes who consume beef.

    This year has seen beef exports rising much faster than in 2013-14.
India's beef shipments in the last year to October rose to 1.95 million tonnes, 5 percent more than for the whole of 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, due to higher demand from China and other beef-consuming countries.

India's beef is exported - with a 20% share of the global market

$4bn (£2.6bn)  24 000 Cr Indian rupees a year

"STOP KILLING BEEF……….. I LOVE MY BEEF"

Basic Concerns

·       What happen to 177 million Beef trading poor Muslims in particular

·       What will happen to bulls and bullocks or to cows too old to produce milk or to give birth???

·       Mostly farmers could now be stuck feeding them for years until they die of natural causes.

·       What will happen to all Beef traders and their families?

·       Are the reason just for un employing these much already poor population

·       Is it humane to target only single community traders?

·       Is it constitutional or communal?