WHY MEAT EXPORT SHOULD BE BANNED?
READ …UNDERSTAND …AWAKE…ACT
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That the killing inflation is the result of mass
scale destruction of our cattle wealth?
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That ever increasing prices of foodgrains,
vegetables, milk, ghee etc. is the result of
cattle slaughter?
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That shift from Cattle based agriculture to
Machine based agriculture has put enormous
burden on farmers & economy?
 That 16 kgs. of foodgrains are required to be
fed to an animal for formation of 1 kg of meat in
its body ... thus promotion of meat eating itself
results in creating shortage of foodgrains?
 That cattle slaughter has…
 Increased cost of producing foodgrains
manifold?
 Reduced nutrition in food and increased chronic
diseases?
 Increased pollution & poison in food?
1. Annual subsidy of Rs.1,30,000 Cr. given for
chemical fertilizers & Rs.45,000 Cr. for food
can be substantially reduced
2. Annual saving of Rs.60,000 Cr. spent on fuel
(Kerosene / Gas) by 12 Cr. families staying in
rural India by using freely available dung cakes
as fuel
[Assuming rural population as 60 Cr. People (50% of total
population) i.e. 12 Cr. Families (assuming 5 persons in family)
spending at least Rs. 5000/- p.a. on Kerosene / Gas]
3.
Huge saving of forex which is spent on import of
chemical fertilizers, diesel, petrol
4.
Comparing the calorific value of firewood and dung
fuel, one buffalo’s dung can save 6 trees in a year,
which are fell for firewood in rural areas!
5.
Huge savings in petrol & diesel consumption in rural
areas by using cattle based transportation
6.
Saving the fertile land of the country from
becoming barren lands due to replacement of dung
manure by chemical fertilizers
7.
Saving
about
six
lacs
decentralized
wealth
generating, self-sufficient centres viz. villages,
revolving around agriculture and Animal Husbandry
related village industries.
1.
By keeping cost of producing food grains to very low level
2.
By using freely available dung for organic manure in place
of costly chemical fertilizers
3.
By using bullocks for ploughing farms in place of diesel
driven tractors
4.
By using cattle based mode of transportation in place of
petrol / diesel driven vehicles
5.
By using freely available cattle urine in place of costly &
poisonous pesticides
6.
By using freely available dung cakes for fuel in rural areas in
place of costly fuels like kerosene, Gas etc.
7.
By using freely available dung ash for cleaning utensils in place
of costly detergent powders
8.
By using freely available dung to be used as one of the input
for housing in place of costly cement in rural areas
9.
By making available nutritious fresh milk & pure ghee at low
cost
10. By making available Panchgavya for cheaper & effective
ayurvedic medicines in place of costly allopathic medicines
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There are approximately 3,600 legal and authorized
slaughter houses in the country
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There are more than 25,000 unregistered slaughter
houses in the country
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30 mega export-oriented private sector slaughter houses
have been set up during the last 15 years and many more
are in pipeline
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The 12th Five Year Plan envisages setting up of many
more mega slaughter houses throughout the country
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Because India is an agricultural economy with 70%
population still living in Rural areas and cattle is still
the backbone of Indian Agriculture …
And Western powers guided policies appear to be …
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keen on breaking this backbone of Indian
agriculture...
thereby inflicting permanent economic slavery on
this nation
And International forces have been directing from
back door Indian Govt. to frame policies in that
direction …
And one such policy framed by the Indian govt. is
MEAT EXPORT POLICY
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There was a serious problem of Foreign Exchange
Reserve in the year 1991-92…
Country’s gold reserves had to be mortgaged,
endangering national pride….
Government was looking for all possible avenues to
earn foreign exchange
And identified MEAT EXPORT as one of the thrust
areas…
1. It’s a policy framed under influence of western
ideas having widely different culture where …
• Cattle is considered to be a commodity
• And objective of cattle rearing is to extract milk
as long as possible & then meat by slaughtering it.
Whereas in India…
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Cattle is considered to be a family member
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And objective of cattle rearing is to get dung,
urine, bullocks & Milk (in that order !)
2.
Meat export violates many Constitutional provisions.
MEAT
EXPORT
VIOLATES
ARTICLE
19 (1) (g)
By snatching away employment of lacs of
people dependent on cattle related activities
ARTICLE
39 (b) 39 (c)
By concentrating means of production and
concentration of wealth in a few hands
ARTICLE
47
By making agriculture costly, food grains
unaffordable and depriving nutrition to large
masses
ARTICLE
48
By encouraging large scale slaughter
instead of preserving and improving the
breeds of animals
ARTICLE
48A
By destroying sheep which alone helps in natural
growth of forests and by disturbing ecological
balance due to depleted cattle
ARTICLE
51A
By promoting violence in place of compassion,
by damaging culture and by destroying balance
of nature
3.
Meat exporters are only in Private Sector and they are swayed
by personal profits in view of enormous earnings involved
4.
No co-ordination amongst the three Ministries involved with the
subject of meat export viz.
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Ministry of Commerce, which decides the list of items of
export
•
Ministry of Food Processing industries, which facilitates
setting up private sector slaughter houses and gives
financial support for meat export. Export of meat is eligible
for 13 types of subsidies running into hundreds of crores of
rupees
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Animal Husbandry Department of Agriculture Ministry,
which monitors animal population and frames policies
resulting in more and more slaughter
5.
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8.
Absence of any monitoring mechanism in place to
examine availability of slaughterable animals vis-à-vis
slaughter capacity created in the country as a whole,
both for local consumption and for exports.
Higher & higher targets for meat exports are set in
view of meat export being considered as thrust area.
Even a Meat Board is set up at the Central level.
No central law to protect useful animals.
Different state laws have different provisions
regarding age of slaughterable animals rendering these
laws ineffective, when animals cross from one state to
the other.
Inherent contradiction prevailing in view of International
standards for meat requiring slaughter of young & healthy
animals, whereas local laws prohibit slaughter of young &
healthy animals. Obviously, breach of law prevails.
10. Having exhausted local animals, most of the export-oriented
slaughter houses located in South India procure animals from
as far flung areas as HP, Haryana, Punjab, UP, MP etc. Thus,
each exporter considers entire country as his hinterland for
procuring animals.
11. In short it is a situation like `free for all’.
12. There is no serious and independent or impartial study of the
impact of this policy on various aspects of economy.
9.
1.
Government’s own arms have recommended ban on
meat export:
I.
Animal Welfare Board of India in its 67th
Executive Committee Meeting, in April 1994.
II. Law Commission of India in its 159th Report in
July, 1998.
III.National Commission on Cattle in its report in
the year 2001.
2. Should we stick to the policy framed in 1991
even if the circumstances have changed? Note
that ….
Forex reserves position in 1991-92 was
precarious!
Whereas forex reserves position in May 2012 is
US$ 290 bn. i.e. Rs.16,24,000 crores!
b) Meat export earns hardly Rs.8,412 crores p.a.
which is just 0.30% of total forex reserve and
not even 1% of our total yearly exports.
a)
c)
When several other sectors given below have emerged
as major foreign exchange earners, why to continue
meat export?
IT Sector
Gem & Jwellery
Textiles
Engineering
etc.
d)
Rs.1,00,000 Crores
Rs.70,000 Crores
Rs.60,000 Crores
Rs.50,000 Crores
There is growing awareness about organic food all over
the world. India can become a major exporter of
organic food if it preserves its animals and uses their
dung as organic manure. Higher revenue from export of
organic food can offset earnings from meat export
manifold.
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IMP
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Note the following data …
India exported roughly 7.09 lakh M.T. of buffalo meat in 201011. (it would be more in subsequent years)
Considering average meat yield from a buffalo to be 110 kg., 65
lakh buffaloes were slaughtered in 2010-11 for export only.
A buffalo yields 5.4 M.T. dung in a year, which when composted
gives 10.8 M.T. of organic manure.
By slaughter of 65 lakh buffaloes, the country is losing 7.02
crore tons of organic manure.
Considering cost of organic manure @ Rs.1,000/- per ton,
the value of 7.02 crore tons of organic manure will be
Rs.7,020 crores per year. If the buffalo lives for 5 more
years, the manure yield will be 35,000/- crores ! This was
lost by one time export earning of only Rs. 8,412/- crores
(in 2010-11)
3.
In view of mass scale slaughter of animals, there is drastic fall in animal to
human ratio as under:
Animal to Human
Population Ratios
1992
2003
2007
Cattle
241
180
157
Buffaloes
100
95
82
Sheep
60
60
57
Goats
136
121
110
(per 1000 humans)
Though beef has been on negative list of export, under the garb of meat, thousands of
tons of beef also is exported. The dwindling ratio of cattle despite total ban on female
cow slaughter and partial ban on bulls and bullocks almost throughout the country proves
this doubt.
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There is countrywide resentment against this Policy.
Meat export violates many Constitutional provisions.
Meat export caters to the need of other countries at
the cost of our young and healthy animals.
The acute shortage of useful animals has by and large
affected the availability & prices of essential
commodities such as foodgrains, vegetables, fruits,
fresh milk, pure ghee etc.
If earning a few crumbs of foreign exchange is the
only criteria, then any and every living creature which
can yield profits is liable to be slaughtered and
exported. This is a very dangerous trend.
(CONTINUE MEAT EXPORT)
Employment
to a few thousand
Foreign Exchange
Earning of 8412 Cr.
(BAN MEAT EXPORT)
Lacs of
persons
Retain
employment
Cheaper food grains
Organic Farming
Free Fuel
Compliance with laws etc.
1.
Can western policies be made applicable to Indian
conditions & culture where the basic objective of
rearing cattle widely differs?
2.
Obvious questions that arise are …
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How the government can frame policies which
are not in the interest of Indian people,
breaking backbone of Indian agriculture?
 Whose interest is being taken care of? Ours or
foreigners’?
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Can the Nation’s cattle wealth be frittered away to
cater to the economic ambitions of a few or to earn
small foreign exchange?
Whose interest weighs higher – that of a handful of
meat exporters? Or that of the entire country?
Can the Government formulate a policy which violates
fundamental duties under the Constitution to have
compassion for all living creatures?
Can the freedom of occupation itself give rise to
freedom to kill any animal? Any number of animals?
Can the government, which has to be a role model for
observing fundamental duties, be seen as the violator
of fundamental duties?
Make your choice- What you want?
A few crumbs of dollars or pounds smeared in the blood
& flesh of innocent animals ? and, destruction of
national cattle wealth creating permanent damage for
satisfying meat eating taste of foreign tongues?
OR
Saving of the national cattle wealth in the multifaceted interest of entire nation ?
 Can production of meat, fish, etc.
& killing of animals be termed as
‘farming’ and included under
‘agriculture’?
 Can meat production enjoy all the
benefits provided by Government
to agriculture sector?
. . .To the Government
Taking holistic view of the whole situation, we appeal to the
government to scrap the meat export policy…
. . . And to the people of this country
Oppose the Meat Export Policy tooth and nail and do not rest
till Meat Export is banned. Send your protest to the
Prime Minister’s Office
pmosb@pmo.nic.in
Commerce Ministry’s Office
anandsharma@sansad.nic.in
Agriculture Ministry’s Office /
sharadpawar.sp@gmail.com
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Planning Commission’s office
plancom@nic.in
Information compiled by ….
Viniyog Parivar Trust &
Akhil Bharat Krishi Goseva Sangh
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