To, Dr.

Tarun Bajaj, General Manager as Public Information Officer, The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), NCUI Building 3, Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi 110016. Subject: Cow / Oxen and calves slaughtering for domestic and export purposes by the Abattoirs / Meat Processing Plants in India. Greetings, India, homeland of the sacred cow, is on pace to become the world's leading beef exporter in 2012: This graph is based off data from the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service. It forecasts that India, shown in blue, will be ship roughly 1.5 million metric tons of beef, passing reigning export champion Australia. It's a remarkable rise from just three years ago, when the famously bovine-friendly country exported less than half that amount. Here's how this has come to pass. Indian beef isn't really beef as we Americans know it. Its water buffalo, which the country's exporters sell at low cost to the meat-hungry but price-sensitive consumers in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Indian federal law bans cow slaughter, as well as the killing of milk producing buffalo. But the males and unproductive females are still fair game for the abattoir. So we're not quite talking about American prime grade Angus here -- either from a gastronomic, or theological point of view. But the USDA still counts it all as beef, and economically, it competes in the same markets.

It is observed that APEDA might know that animals are being shifted under very heavy stress, pain, injury and sufferings towards slaughter houses violating the Cattle Transport Rules, 1978 amended in 2001 with out pre transport permit as required under section 96 of the said Rules, where as the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Slaughter House) Rules, 2001 also ignored by the Abattoirs registered with APEDA. Hence you are humbly requested to direct all concerned to obey the above said legal procedures and issue orders, circulars for strict compliance under intimation to the undersigned and following information may kindly be supplied: 1. Cow, Oxen and calves slaughtering is illegal along with the slaughtering of milking / breeding buffaloes. Is there any order, circular issued for strict compliance to all concerned, if yes then supply me the copy, if No then why? 2. Beef consumption in domestic and beef / veal export is increasing day by day from India, how many registered Abattoirs are slaughtering Cow, Oxen and calves for beef and veal?

Sincerely yours, Abhishek Kadyan, Hon. Animal Welfare Officer, Animal Welfare Board of India (Ministry of Environment and Forest Govt. of India), C-38, Rose Apartment, sector-14, Prashant Vihar, Rohini, DELHI 110085. Sukanya Kadyan, Director Events of OIPA in India www.oipa.org Naresh Kadyan, Master Trainer to AWBI / Rep. of UN affiliated OIPA in India / Founder Chairman, PFA Haryana www.pfaharyana.in
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