Beef-ban issue hits Rs 2,500 crore cow-breeding business in Punjab

[kdsingh80]

CHANDIGARH: The raging controversy over cow slaughter has hit the Rs 2,500 crore business of breeding cows in Punjab with dairy farmers accusing the state's Gau Sewa Commission of "harassing" them by "inordinately" delaying the necessary permission for export of bovines to other states. 

Dairy farmers under the banner of Punjab Progressive Dairy Farmers' Association alleged that the "inordinate" delay in getting the necessary permission from district authorities for export of bovines to other states has "paralysed" the business of breeding cows. 

They claimed that the ban on transportation of cows after sunset has also hit the trade. 
 

Punjab is one of the leading states in cattle breeding and supply almost three lakh high yielding cows — Holstein Friesian breed — to various parts of the country including Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, they said. 

"The Punjab Gau Sewa Commission has made it mandatory for dairy farmers to take permission from district authorities for transporting cows to other states. Besides, permission is also required from a veterinary doctor," Association's President Daljit Singh said. 

"The whole process takes about two months ... which is sheer harassment," he said adding "due to such conditions, our cow breeding business which is worth Rs 2,500 crore has been adversely hit."

"Against the potential of sending 800 cows daily from Punjab to other states, we are given permission for about 20 cows per month," he said. 

A cross-bred cow fetches Rs 1.25 to Rs 1.50 lakh. 

"Because of delay in permission, buyers from other states are not ready to come here. Where will these three lakh cows go?" he asked. 

Singh also claimed that some self-styled cow protection groups operating in the state also harass and even attack trucks carrying cows. 

Meanwhile, Punjab Gau Sewa Commission Chairman Keemti Bhagat said, "We don't object to transportation of milking cows. But we will never allow cows to be sent out for slaughter under the garb of trade." Bhagat said that in last two years, 430 FIRs have been registered in the state in connection with incidents of cow slaughter or smuggling of bovines.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Beef-ban-issue-hits-Rs-2500-crore-cow-breeding-business-in-Punjab/articleshow/49263865.cms

Surprising no pro Sikh farmer association   is taking up this issue 

[dalsingh101]

I bet these guys would know what ਅੰਦ੍ਰਾਹੁਲ was!

[CdnSikhGirl]

So, they don't object to the transportation of milking cows, but wont allow slaughter... so will we get to see what we were discussion play out in reality? Since farmers can no longer kill the male calves... what will they do with them? separate them and starve them to death? Kill them in secret? 

Standing back right now looking at this from Canada this is what I see:  India cares more about cows than its people as they have allowed Sikhs to be killed for no reason at all, yet they are protecting the cows. If cows are being protected to such level, where is the protection for the people??

[kdsingh80]

So, they don't object to the transportation of milking cows, but wont allow slaughter... so will we get to see what we were discussion play out in reality? Since farmers can no longer kill the male calves... what will they do with them? separate them and starve them to death? Kill them in secret? 

Standing back right now looking at this from Canada this is what I see:  India cares more about cows than its people as they have allowed Sikhs to be killed for no reason at all, yet they are protecting the cows. If cows are being protected to such level, where is the protection for the people??

This is what they do with  calves

In India, where about three times as many cows are needed to produce about the same volume of milk as the U.S. produces, and eating beef is culturally unacceptable, such circumstances are perennial. Farmers often respond by donating their surplus bull calves to temples, by tying them to the temple fences. The temple management typically allows the calves to die from dehydration, which usually takes about a day in the Indian heat,  before finding the remains and selling them to leather merchants.

Since no one actually kills the calves by an act of commission, the deaths are described as acts of one or another of the Hindu pantheon. And leaving the calves to die prolonged deaths in the hot sun is perceived as holier than selling them to Muslims for either early slaughter or export at Ramadan.

Here in the U.S. the religious traditions differ, but the reality is similar: the only way to avoid losses from keeping male calves is for the calves to die from an alleged act of God.

Of course everyone involved will deny doing anything evil on purpose. The whole dairy industry is actually based on the premise of plausible deniability: people can consume dairy products without losing sleep over what becomes of the calves, because everyone knows that cows produce more milk than their calves really need.

But I lived for a dozen years on a dairy farm. I heard the newly separated cows and calves bawling all night. I left milk to the holy men of India and wholesome farm girls of Wisconsin and wherever just about 30 years ago. I sleep better after drinking a beer.

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 Of course cows and calves can be killed in above humane way so all religious hypocrits can drink their milk.Just turn blind eye toward these and continue living in denial

[CdnSikhGirl]

 

This is what they do with  calves

 Of course cows and calves can be killed in above humane way so all religious hypocrits can drink their milk.Just turn blind eye toward these and continue living in denial

Hardly humane... It would be more humane to just allow them to do it by bullet to the head. At least it's quick.  And then to waste the meat on top of that... so that bull calves life meant nothing in the end.  How is that caring for cows?? At least if the meat is used, its life meant something... and could feed starving people. 

[Ragmaala]

disgusting