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Hit by beef ban, Indian butchers eye Jersey cows

By Meenakshi Sharma April 24, 2015

Mumbai | Reuters –– Battling a beef ban that has threatened their livelihoods, Muslim traders in India are seeking permission to slaughter foreign-origin Jersey cows they think will not be as sacred to the country’s majority Hindus as locally bred cattle. Several states led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra […] Read more

A street-side vendor stands on the pavement next to her cow as it rains in Mumbai July 10, 2013. The vendor sells grass stalks to passersby for five to 10 Indian rupees (US11-22 cents), which are then fed to her cow.

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In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

By Jo Winterbottom, Meenakshi Sharma January 9, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes One night last August here, an angry mob ran amok on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, burning trucks and government property and forcing traffic to halt and factories to shut. The rioters were incensed over an issue arguably as old as India itself: the eating of beef, which the country’s majority Hindus have considered sacrilegious for at […] Read more

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In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

By Jo Winterbottom, Meenakshi Sharma December 25, 2013

Reading Time: 5 minutes Reuters / One night last August here, an angry mob ran amok on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, burning trucks and government property and forcing traffic to halt and factories to shut. The rioters were incensed over an issue arguably as old as India itself: the eating of beef, which the country’s majority Hindus have considered sacrilegious […] Read more

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