WHY MEAT EXPORT SHOULD BE BANNED?

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That the high inflation is the result of mass

scale destruction of our cattle wealth?

That ever increasing prices of foodgrains,

vegetables, milk, ghee etc. is the result of

cattle slaughter?

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 can be generated of Rs.1,81,440 Cr. spent on fuel (Kerosene / Gas) by 16.80 Cr.

families staying in rural India by making them available dung cakes as fuel

[Assuming rural population as 84 Cr. People (70% of total

population) i.e. 16.80 Cr. Families (assuming 5 persons in family) spending at least Rs. 10,800/- p.a. on Kerosene / Gas]

3. Huge saving of forex which is spent on import of

chemical fertilizers, diesel, petrol & other fuels

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

There are approximately 3,600 legal and authorizedslaughter houses in the country

There are more than 1,00,000 unregistered or illegal

slaughter houses in the country

34 mega export-oriented private sector slaughter houses

have been set up during the last 20 years and many more

are in pipeline

The 12th Five Year Plan envisages setting up of many

more mega slaughter houses throughout the country

Because India is an agricultural economy with 70%population still living in Rural areas and cattle is stillthe backbone of Indian Agriculture …

And Western powers guided policies appear to be … keen on breaking this backbone of Indian

agriculture...

thereby inflicting permanent economic slavery on

this nation

And International forces have been directing fromback door Indian Govt. to frame policies in thatdirection …

And one such policy framed by the Indian govt. is

MEAT EXPORT POLICY

There was a serious problem of Foreign ExchangeReserve in the year 1991-92…

Country’s gold reserves had to be mortgaged,endangering national pride….

Government was looking for all possible avenues toearn foreign exchange

And identified MEAT EXPORT as one of the thrustareas…

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…

• Cattle is considered to be a family member

• 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

ARTICLE19 (1) (g)

ARTICLE39 (b) 39 (c)

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By snatching away employment of lacs of people dependent on cattle related

activities

By concentrating means of production and concentration of wealth in a few

hands

By making agriculture costly, food grains unaffordable and depriving nutrition to large

masses

By encouraging large scale slaughter

instead of preserving and improving the breeds of animals

By destroying sheep which alone helps in natural growth of forests and by disturbing ecological balance due to depleted cattle

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.

• 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

• Animal Husbandry Department of Agriculture Ministry,

which monitors animal population and frames policies

resulting in more and more slaughter

5. Absence of any monitoring mechanism to examineavailability of slaughterable animals vis-à-vis slaughtercapacity created in the country as a whole, both forlocal consumption and for exports.

6. Higher & higher targets for meat exports are set inview of meat export being considered as thrust area.Even a Meat Board is set up at the Central level.

7. No central law to protect useful animals.

8. Different state laws have different provisionsregarding age of slaughterable animals rendering theselaws ineffective, when animals cross from one state tothe other.

9. Inherent contradiction prevailing in view of Internationalstandards for meat requiring slaughter of young & healthyanimals, whereas local laws prohibit slaughter of young &healthy animals. Obviously, breach of law prevails.

10. Having exhausted local animals, most of the export-orientedslaughter houses located in South India procure animals fromas far flung areas as HP, Haryana, Punjab, UP, MP etc. Thus,each exporter considers entire country as his hinterland forprocuring animals.

11. In short it is a situation like `free for all’.

12. There is no serious and independent or impartial study of theimpact of this policy on various aspects of economy.

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 1991even if the circumstances have changed? Notethat ….a) Forex reserves position in 1991-92 was

precarious!

Whereas forex reserves position in June 2013is US$ 288 bn. i.e. Rs.17,28,000 crores!

b) Meat export earns hardly Rs.14,000 crores p.a.which is just 0.8% of total forex reserve and1% of our total yearly exports.

c) When several other sectors given below have emergedas major foreign exchange earners, why to continuemeat export?

IT Sector Rs.4,54,800 Crores

Gem & Jwellery Rs.2,35,000 Crores

Textiles Rs.1,00,000 Crores

Engineering Rs.1,00,000 Crores

etc.

d) There is growing awareness about organic food all overthe world. India can become a major exporter oforganic food if it preserves its animals and uses theirdung as organic manure. Higher revenue from export oforganic food can offset earnings from meat exportmanifold.

e) Note the following data …• India exported roughly 16.80 lakh M.T. of buffalo meat in

2011-12. (it would be more in subsequent years)• Considering average meat yield from a buffalo to be 110 kg.,

152 lakh buffaloes were slaughtered in 2011-12 for exportonly.

• A buffalo yields 5.4 M.T. dung in a year, which whencomposted gives 10.8 M.T. of organic manure.

• By slaughter of 152 lakh buffaloes, the country is losing82.08 crore tons of organic manure available fromslaughtered buffaloes during five years they would havelived if not slaughtered at average age of 10 years.

• Considering cost of organic manure @ Rs.1,000/- perton, the value of 82.08 crore tons of organic manurewill be Rs.82,080 crores over a 5 year period.

IMP

3. In view of mass scale slaughter of animals, there is drastic fall in animal tohuman ratio as under:

Though beef has been on negative list of export, under the garb of meat, thousands oftons of beef is also exported. The dwindling ratio of cattle despite total ban on femalecow slaughter and partial ban on bulls and bullocks almost throughout the country provesthis doubt.

Animal to Human

Population Ratios (per 1000 humans)

1992 2003 2007

Cattle 241 180 157

Buffaloes 100 95 82

Sheep 60 60 57

Goats 136 121 110

4. There is countrywide resentment against this Policy.

5. Meat export violates many Constitutional provisions.

6. Meat export caters to the need of other countries atthe cost of our young and healthy animals.

7. The acute shortage of useful animals has by and largeaffected the availability & prices of essentialcommodities such as foodgrains, vegetables, fruits,fresh milk, pure ghee etc.

8. If earning a few crumbs of foreign exchange is theonly criteria, then any and every living creature whichcan yield profits is liable to be slaughtered andexported. This is a very dangerous trend.

(CONTINUE MEAT EXPORT) (BAN MEAT EXPORT)

Employment to a few thousand

Foreign ExchangeEarning of 14000Cr.

Lacs of personsRetain

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 …

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’?

3. Can the Nation’s cattle wealth be frittered away tocater to the economic ambitions of a few or to earnsmall foreign exchange?

4. Whose interest weighs higher – that of a handful ofmeat exporters? Or that of the entire country?

5. Can the Government formulate a policy which violatesfundamental duties under the Constitution to havecompassion for all living creatures?

6. Can the freedom of occupation itself give rise tofreedom to kill any animal? Any number of animals?

7. Can the government, which has to be a role model forobserving fundamental duties, be seen as the violatorof 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 multi-

faceted 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 thebenefits provided by Governmentto agriculture sector?

. . .To the GovernmentTaking holistic view of the whole situation, we appeal to thegovernment to scrap the meat export policy…

. . . And to the people of this countryOppose 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 / Ministry of Food Processing Industries

sharadpawar.sp@gmail.com

Planning Commission’s office plancom@nic.in

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