"Dairy industry exposes India’s cattle protection contradiction"

An interesting story:

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Cow protection and dairy industry: Cows have long stood at the centre of the nation’s religious and political conflicts. In the name of Hindu sentiment, cow protection has often been used against Dalits and Muslims through vigilante violence, mob lynching, and legal harassment over alleged beef consumption. It has served less as animal welfare than as a tool of communal power.

This year, ahead of Eid al-Adha, something unexpected happened. Several Muslim community organisations voluntarily announced they would not slaughter cows during the festival and urged a complete national ban on cow slaughter. Islamic practices as observed neither prohibit cow sacrifice nor beef consumption. The gesture is explicitly political and shows an attempt to defuse tension and demonstrate goodwill.
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Thanks to @Sentientism for pointing it out.

https://www.policycircle.org/opinion/dairy-industry-cattle-protection/

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