India's push to save its cows starves Bangladesh of beef

[kakathiya]

Didn't Modi make a case to china to let more beef imports ?

Funny ain't it

we have no problem with water bafellow meat,
india exports water bafellow meat

 

[mb444]

I fully approve of this retarded hindutva policy. Low quality indian cattle has slowed development of BD bovine industry for far too long. If anyone thinks that BD will suffer anything other than temporary logistical issue due to this probably been drinking too much cow urine.

Anyhow never thought I would say it but all the best to the hindutva scums.

 

[kakathiya]

they are not eating in India they are doing in Bangladesh, which is Muslim majority country and We Muslims just love eating beef

we are hindus we love eating pork, and as for beef hindus eat water bafellow meat, the only point is they insist on eating cows which is unconstitutional

 

[mb444]

we are hindus we love eating pork, and as for beef hindus eat water bafellow meat, the only point is they insist on eating cows which is unconstitutional

It is not unconstitutional in BD.... It is irrelevant what dumb hindutva laws are in existence in India. We are fully supportive of your current anti-dumping policy.

 

[kakathiya]

I fully approve of this retarded hindutva policy. Low quality indian cattle has slowed development of BD bovine industry for far too long. If anyone thinks that BD will suffer anything other than temporary logistical issue due to this probably been drinking too much cow urine.

Anyhow never thought I would say it but all the best to the hindutva scums.

and for your information british slugs made the law banning bovine cattle for meat, best of luck with your mad cow diesease & alzemeirs we have a cure for your illness if you want to get treated

 

[Heinz Guderian]

Thats idiocies of highest level.

 

[kakathiya]

foolish man this law was made by the britishers so that farmers would not sell their milch cattle and reduce the economic output

 

[Spring Onion]

we are hindus we love eating pork,

very good we can export you some wild boars lolzzz

 

[kakathiya]

BD can go to hell we dont care about them, it is un constitional in india so we cannot permit illegal smuggling of cattle

 

[GURU DUTT]

DHAKA: Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this year — stop cattle from crossing illegally into the Muslim-majority neighbour.

Roughly every other night, troops armed with bamboo sticks and ropes wade through jute and paddy fields and swim across ponds to chase ageing bovines, and smugglers, headed for markets in Bangladesh.

The crackdown is one of the clearest signs yet of how Indian policies are having an economic impact on neighbouring countries.

About 2 million head of cattle are smuggled into Bangladesh annually from India. The $600 million-a-year trade has flourished over the past four decades and is considered legal by Dhaka.

Modi's government wants to put an end to it.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh travelled this spring to the frontier with Bangladesh, calling on the Border Security Force (BSF) to halt cattle smuggling completely so that the "people of Bangladesh give up eating beef", media reported at the time.

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Beef prices up, exports down

So far this year, BSF soldiers have seized 90,000 cattle and caught 400 Indian and Bangladeshi smugglers.

Bangladeshi traders who operate auctions to facilitate the sale of cattle to slaughter houses, beef processing units, tanneries and bone crushing factories estimate the industry contributed 3 percent to the country's $190 billion economy.

The hit to GDP from India's policies is not yet known. But HT Imam, a political adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said there was "absolutely no doubt" that the beef trade and leather industry were suffering.

Syed Hasan Habib of Bengal Meat, Bangladesh's top beef exporter, said it had to cut international orders by 75 percent. The company exports 125 tonnes of beef a year to Gulf countries.

He said the price of cows had gone up by 40 percent over the past six months because of India's move, and they had been forced to close two processing units.

Habib plans to import cows from Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar to meet domestic demand, but he said Indian cows had better quality meat and raw hide.

Bangladesh Tanners Association president Shaheen Ahmed said 30 of 190 tanneries had suspended work due to lack of hides, and about 4,000 workers were jobless.

A senior official in India's home ministry said Bangladesh should find new sources of beef because India would stick to its stance.

Cow protection force

India is home to 300 million cattle and is the world's largest beef exporter and fifth-biggest consumer.

But since Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is closely linked to the RSS, came to power last year, the rhetoric on cow protection and the beef ban has increased.

Critics say tougher anti-beef laws discriminate against Muslims, Christians and lower-caste Hindus who rely on the cheap meat for protein. Butchers and cattle traders, many of them Muslim, say the push threatens thousands of jobs.

The rhetoric has also emboldened vigilante cow protectors.

"I was chained to a tree and beaten by members of the cow protection force. They forced me to recite a Hindu prayer," said Mohammed Tarafdar, who was caught smuggling two calves near the Bangladesh border in April.

"My religion permits me to eat and sell beef, so why should Hindus have a problem?" said Tarafdar, sitting in a crammed prison cell in Basirhat district. Some BSF soldiers said they could not understand why they were chasing cows. Some animals are caught and auctioned by the BSF, only to be bought and smuggled again.

Two soldiers were killed by a gang of Bangladeshi smugglers, while three dozen have been injured by the animals.

"It is a wild chase, but not of a kind a soldier appreciates," said Vivek Tyagi, a BSF commander at the Ghojadanga check post.


@Echo_419 , @SarthakGanguly , @anant_s , @IND151 , @JanjaWeed , @Darmashkian and others.

but bangladeshies love fish than anything else and is beef eating mandatorry for every muslim ?

i know some bangladeshies myself they say bnegalies love their fish over anthing else + chiken is the other staple food in bangladesh its onli the bengali diarporra who have brought this beef culture there or the ones who stil love pakistan want to eat beef onli to torment religious belifes of bangladeshi hindus ... i might not be 100% correct but it was as told to me by a very respected trader from dhakka

 

[MandarK]

I fully approve of this retarded hindutva policy. Low quality indian cattle has slowed development of BD bovine industry for far too long. If anyone thinks that BD will suffer anything other than temporary logistical issue due to this probably been drinking too much cow urine.

Anyhow never thought I would say it but all the best to the hindutva scums.

Only a retarded Muslim will say that smuggling should be allowed because it helps Muslims. We all know how high quality products are produced in land of milk and honey called Bd. If anyone thinks that India should allow smuggling of cattle is probably high on camel urine.

Anyhow never thought I would say it but all the best to the Muslim scums.

 

[kakathiya]

very good we can export you some wild boars lolzzz

please, i love it, last week we shot a wild boar weighing 60 kg which was destroying the groundnut fields, and finished it off in a day, not to mention when we have religious functions when we serve tons of mutton, pork, chicken, fish, crabs, prawns, rabbit meat, and what not

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Why does Bangladesh depends upon smuggled beef ? They should developl their own dairy and beef industry. It is the Hindus farmers themselves that sell their old cows that are being smuggled into Bangladesh and sold at cheap prices.

 

[Spring Onion]

please, i love it, last week we shot a wild boar weighing 60 kg which was destroying the groundnut fields, and finished it off in a day, not to mention when we have religious functions when we serve tons of mutton, pork, chicken, fish, crabs, prawns, rabbit meat, and what not

Seriously Islamabad has a large number of wild boars that create a lot of trouble, I think Pakistan should start exporting

 

[kakathiya]

there are not much bulloks in many villages, in my native village with a population of 2000 people there are only 3 pairs of bulloks before there were 50 to 60 pairs, each pair of bulloks cost nearly a lakh rupees and as for one has a pair of ongole bulloks it costs about 5 lakhs, so it is very expensive, now a days we can find european mix breed cows every where, govt wants to save the milch cattle from declining.