MAHARASHTRA BEEF PROCESSORS UPSET OVER NEW OXEN AND BULL SLAUGHTER BAN
March 9th, 2015
Beef traders in the Indian state of Maharashtra, which includes Mumbai, are in a desperate situation as the state government has started to implement a newly-approved law that bans the slaughter of oxen and bulls for religious reasons. “We don’t have any other job or business and people will come on the streets,” said Rauf Qureshi, secretary of Beef Merchants' Association in the Maharashtra city of Nashik, “only those who are not aware of the reality can support such a decision.”Although cow slaughter has been banned for several decades in most Indian ...
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