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Post by Guest Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:18 pm

Nitin Tarode wants to sell his old bull to help pay for his sister’s wedding, after his income was hit by patchy rainfall. But he has struggled to find a buyer who will pay a decent price because of a ban on slaughtering cows, bulls and bullocks in Maharashtra, the western state run by Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party.

“Now I will have to take a loan for my sister’s wedding,” says Tarode, the oldest of five siblings and the only earning member of his family in Akola, nearly 370 miles from Mumbai.

A renewed thrust by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party to protect cows, worshipped by Hindus, has closed abbatoirs in Maharashtra, making it hard for farmers to sell their animals, and restrictions are spreading to other states.

Even lions, tigers and leopards in Mumbai’s national park are being fed chicken and mutton rather than their usual beef because the city’s main abattoir has been shut for the past two weeks.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/23/india-beef-ban-jobs-economy-maharashtra-cows

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