India on top in exporting beef & Beef ban in Indian state : Deceitful actions!!

Beef Export

India retains its top spot as the world’s largest exporter of beef, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and has extended its lead over the next highest exporter, Brazil. 
 India itself accounts for 23.5 per cent of global beef exports. This is up from a 20.8 per cent share last year.

Country's 1.2 billion people - regard cows as divine.

On one side where India is on the top in terms of beef export, the other side same people involved(directly or indirectly) are trying to impose ban on beef in India, which constitutes the meal of a major part of daily wage workers in many southern parts of India.
Curiously, India's beef exports comprise almost entirely water buffalo meat (carabeef) as cow slaughter is banned in most places. As per the figures of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), the beef exports totaled 14,49,759 tonne worth Rs 26,458 crore last year.

            Putting the brakes on India’s beef industry isn’t as easy as it sounds.

As religious groups mourn the sacrilege of cow slaughter—urban, well-traveled Indians are developing a taste for beef.

It is estimated that almost two million cows are smuggled across a 2,400-mile poorly-patrolled border from India into Bangladesh every year. Inside India's borders, people dodge the law by smuggling cows to states where there are little or no penalties for cow slaughter. Rajhans says that India has about 3,600 legal slaughterhouses and 30,000 illegal ones, many of which slaughter cows.

Beef Ban

There is a complete ban on cow slaughter in 13 Indian states, 6 states have ban on cow slaughter but allow bullock slaughter with certificate, 3 states allow cow slaughter with a certificate.

Recently Maharashtra banned beef with a punishment of 5 years jail and Rs 10000 fine for possession or sale.

Haryana will soon ban beef following Maharshtra.

But the question here is why doesn't the government stop beef export in first place?

The answer is that beef export is major source of income to India, where the government can not easily stop the beef export. Other consequences include that illegal export may start, already there's a rise in the beef consumption even in the states where its banned.

One rule that is always followed by humans is that the more they are suppressed to a particular thing, the more they are attracted and get curious towards the issue.

Other major controversies that are associated with the beef ban include communal tensions between communities, where a large part of Muslim and Christian community consumes beef; whereas major part Hindu and Jain community abstain from beef as its divine for them.

India’s rapidly growing beef industry is a political issue, especially during elections when the country is divided along cultural, religious, and political lines: Muslims and Hindus, left versus right, beef-eating Hindus versus non-beef eating Hindus. “Politicians take a stand on the issue just as they take a stand on any issue of public concern,” says Joshipura. “A politician's position on the matter would determine how much support he or she would get and from whom.”

The truth is that common people have different opinion than that of politicians and ruling bodies.

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