Indian buffalo meat exports plunged more than 10 percent in April, new trade figures show, with traders blaming a campaign to protect cows for undermining its position as one of the world’s top beef suppliers. Buffalo meat shipments dropped 11.4 percent in April, data released this week showed, denting profits for a $4.8 billion export … Read more
The Veterinary Services Directorate is cautioning the public to desist from patronizing any meat from either a slaughter house or a market that has not been embossed with a stamp from the Veterinary Services Department. The directorate has subsequently launched its quality assurance meat inspection stamping project at the Takoradi slaughter house with the aim … Read more
India could issue millions of cows with unique identification numbers, the latest effort to protect the sacred animals amid a spike in violence by Hindu vigilantes against farmers accused of cattle smuggling. The government has told the Supreme Court that millions of cows will be tagged with a tamper-proof plastic tag linked to a national … Read more
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat on Friday increased the punishment for cow slaughter from seven years to life imprisonment as Hindu hardliners push for tougher protections for the holy animal. Under the stiffened penalties passed by Gujarat’s state assembly, anyone caught transporting cows for slaughter could also face up to 10 … Read more
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat on Friday increased the punishment for cow slaughter from seven years to life imprisonment as Hindu hardliners push for tougher protections for the holy animal. Under the stiffened penalties passed by Gujarat’s state assembly, anyone caught transporting cows for slaughter could also face up to 10 … Read more
Not a buffalo in sight as businessman Haji Shadab paced the silent abattoir, his meat shipments indefinitely on hold as India reels from a crisis threatening its reputation as the world’s largest buffalo meat exporter. A zealous campaign to protect cows — considered sacred by Hindus — by a new right-wing government in Uttar Pradesh … Read more
Egypt said on Saturday it would resume importing meat from Brazil after a brief suspension following allegations that exporters in the Latin American country had sold tainted beef and poultry. “We suspended it (this week) until we found out what happened and now it’s back, but we won’t import anything from slaughter houses or factories … Read more
The Upper East regional Minister, Mr. Rockson Bukari Ayine has hinted that the defunt Pwalugu Meat Factory will be tramnsformed into a modern abattoir. The move he explained forms part of the ‘One District One factory’ policy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Minister said the factory when rehabilitated, will create about 400 direct … Read more
The Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari Ayine, has hinted that the defunct Zuarungu meat factory will be turned into an abattoir, while awaiting rehabilitation under the ‘One District One factory’ policy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The GIHOC Zuarungu Meat Product company Limited in Dulugu, with its raw materials coming from neighbouring Burkina Faso, … Read more
Arson has not been ruled out after blazes tore through three butcher’s shops in Uttar Pradesh, days after the state’s newly-appointed chief minister promised a crackdown on slaughterhouses. The suspected overnight attack in Hathras district followed raids on ‘illegal’ meat shops in Ghaziabad earlier on Tuesday, within 48 hours Yogi Adityanath being sworn in – but … Read more
Indian police said Wednesday they were not ruling out arson after fire gutted three butcher shops in Uttar Pradesh state, where a firebrand Hindu leader has taken office promising a crackdown on slaughterhouses. The meat industry is a magnet for religious violence in India, where Hindus consider cows sacred and accusations of beef being sold … Read more