Kerala’s Meat Consumption is a Whopping 5,000 tonnes every day Kerala has exhausted all it Indigenous cattle and it is making Tamil Nadu, Andra-Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka and even Maharashtra deplete their cows. Agriculture vanishes if cows are no longer available. Believe it or not it is a fact. Kerala is the best example. Without cows there can only be agribusiness, corporate farming etc, nothing is sustainable. On papers Kerala would be spending a lot on Farming, but the fact is all the food grains, vegetables, meat and milk has to come from neighboring states. Kerala’s meat consumption is a whopping 5,000 tonnes every day. More than 80 per cent of population, including some brahmins are meat eaters. Kerala is only able to produce 264 tonnes of meat in a day, This big shortage is mostly satisfied by Tamilnadu. Of the 5,000 tonnes 40 percent is beef. This stats is a per 2009-2010, it would have increased significantly. Most parts of Kerala has forest cover even today, so people would have consumed meat on a regular basis in ancient times. Gradually when feudal lords came in picture grains and pulses were stored with them. For a days hard work land lords would pay grains(mostly rice). People would have looked for alternate cheap source of protein. Malayalees feed on a wide variety of animals such as Mongoose, Malabar Civet, Porcupine, Monitor Lizards etc. In the 60′s and 70′s red meat would have been very cheap as compared to goat, chicken and fish. Because of planing commission creating Animal husbandry as a separate entity. Same time most lower income group was moving to gulf and other countries. Which would have triggered the beef or more meat eating pattern in Kerala. Muslim invasion and British rule would have also made it more popular. This is what I feel. If it was Gods own country then situation of Cows(for that matter any animals) here in Kerala would have not been so HORRIBLE…. There are hardly any Indigenous cows left in “beef’s own country”… It is very difficult to find indigenous cows even in rural villages of Kerala. You can only locate them in tribes located inside forest where vehicles cannot reach by road or if any individual is really passionate about Native cows. Most cows in Kerala are crossbreed or High yielding firangi cows(mostly Jersey or HF). All cross breed and firangi Cows suffer here horribly. Most of the times even antibiotics don’t help them.They are then send to slaughter houses. During night time from 7 pm to late in the night there are so many vehicles carrying cows, bulls, heifers to slaughter houses in towns and villages, Cops are easily bribed. If you search beef fry in Google, it will suggest Kerala beef fry, such is the importance of beef in Kerala. It is a very popular dish in Kerala. Every small time hotel owners will have it. If you question policy makers. They will say Indian cows are not slaughtered. Thing is currently India is the worlds third largest beef exporter. However Indian beef is not really cows beef. It is actually buffalo meat which is exported. Which is internationally sold at a cheap rate to developing or underdeveloped nations as beef. However local consumption and smuggling of cows to other countries are rampant for meat. Indian Holy Cows Meat Trade is a Underground Business
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:37:35 +0000
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