What is more precious – Cattle wealth or Forex?

WHAT IS MORE PRECIOUS – CATTLE WEALTH OR

FOREX?

WHY MEAT EXPORT SHOULD BE BANNED?

READ …UNDERSTAND …AWAKE…ACT

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?

Do you know …

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?

Do you know… (Cont)

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]

How much the nation can benefit from protection of cattle wealth?

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

Benefit from protection of cattle wealth... (cont)

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.

Benefit from protection of cattle wealth... (cont)

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

Can cattle based economy control Inflation & Rising prices? …Yes

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

Controlling Inflation & Rising prices... (Cont)

There are approximately 3,600 legal and authorized slaughter 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

Cattle are so useful ! Let it be ….Govt. Policies are still not inclined for

its preservation … Read on ...

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 … 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

Why is it so ?

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…

MEAT EXPORT POLICY -HOW IT ORIGINATED?

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 !)

WHAT’S WRONG WITH MEAT EXPORT POLICY?…… Everything !

2. Meat export violates many Constitutional provisions.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH MEAT EXPORT POLICY? (cont…)

MEAT EXPORT

VIOLATES

ARTICLE19 (1) (g)

ARTICLE39 (b) 39 (c)

ARTICLE47

ARTICLE48

ARTICLE48A

ARTICLE51A

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 massesBy 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 examine availability of slaughterable animals vis-à-vis slaughter capacity created in the country as a whole, both for local consumption and for exports.

6. 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.

7. No central law to protect useful animals.

8. Different state laws have different provisions regarding age of slaughterable animals rendering these laws ineffective, when animals cross from one state to the other.


9. 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.


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.

WHY MEAT EXPORT POLICY SHOULD BE SCRAPPED?

2. Should we stick to the policy framed in 1991 even if the circumstances have changed? Note that ….a) Forex reserves position in 1991-92 was

precarious!

Whereas forex reserves position in June 2013 is 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 and 1% of our total yearly exports.

WHY MEAT EXPORT POLICY SHOULD BE SCRAPPED? (Cont)

c) When several other sectors given below have emerged as major foreign exchange earners, why to continue meat 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 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.


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 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 152 lakh buffaloes, the country is losing 82.08 crore tons of organic manure available from slaughtered buffaloes during five years they would have lived if not slaughtered at average age of 10 years.

• Considering cost of organic manure @ Rs.1,000/- per ton, the value of 82.08 crore tons of organic manure will 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 to human ratio as under:

Though beef has been on negative list of export, under the garb of meat, thousands of tons of beef is also 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.


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 at the cost of our young and healthy animals.

7. 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.

8. 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) (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.

BALANCE OF CONVENIENCE TILTS IN FAVOUR OF BANNING MEAT

EXPORT

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’?

Let us Awake, Arise & Ask…

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

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

5. Can the Government formulate a policy which violates fundamental duties under the Constitution to have compassion for all living creatures?

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

7. Can the government, which has to be a role model for observing fundamental duties, be seen as the violator of fundamental duties?

Let us awake, arise & ask… (Cont)

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 ?

An alarm call for the alert citizens of India

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?

Food for thought

. . .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 countryOppose the Meat Export Policy tooth and nail and do not rest till Meat Export is banned. Send your protest to the

APPEAL ….

Prime Minister’s Office [email protected]

Commerce Ministry’s Office [email protected]

Agriculture Minister [email protected]

[email protected] (Agriculture)

Food Processing [email protected]

Planning Commission’s office [email protected]

Information compiled by …. Viniyog Parivar TrustContact details :

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What is more precious – Cattle wealth or Forex?