BSF should end smuggling of cattle to Bangladesh:HM

[SarthakGanguly]

That doesn't mean you can ignore his justification just to suit your own argument. Stopping illegal trade is fine, but his justification is what people are talking about, and laughing at.

Ok. I don't bother myself with that. I as an Indian want him to stop smuggling. If he does that by feeding cats to Martians or not feeding BD of cattle, I don't care.

 

[That Guy]

Ok. I don't bother myself with that. I as an Indian want him to stop smuggling. If he does that by feeding cats to Martians or not feeding BD of cattle, I don't care.

Sure, I don't think anyone disagrees that illegal trade between any border of any nation should be stopped.

 

[Arthur]

Sure, I don't think anyone disagrees that illegal trade between any border of any nation should be stopped.

Exactly!!BD peoples don't want smuggeld Indian cattle in Bangladeshi market.It greatly damages our local cattle market,and forces BD Cattle firms to shutting down.Bangladeshi cattle farmers are demanding to stop this smuggling for many years,and why not,it's them who have to loss money every time!!See if they succeed in stooping the smuggling it will be win for Bangladeshi farmers!!so no point there that they will starve BD of meats!!Only idiots will talk like this vramin HM of India!!

 

[Bilal9]

Bangladesh needs Indian cows otherwise there will be a big crisis. We love beef but BD can't meet such huge demand of beef alone. It needs Indian cows. ASAP..


Cow smuggling ... it's how Bangladesh gets its beef


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Beef is a delicacy in Bangladesh, but Hindu-majority India refuses to sell their sacred cows. The demand is so high, however, that a dangerous $920 million cow smuggling trade has popped up.

By Shaikh Azizur Rahman, Contributor January 26, 2013

Calcutta, India — In Muslim majority Bangladesh beef is in high demand.

More than 90 percent of the 160 million people who live there are Muslims and for them beef is a delicacy.

The country's meat producers estimate that slaughterhouses need up to 3 million cows every year to feed Bangladeshi appetites, and to help meet demand, Bangladesh is eyeing neighboring India. Cows are everywhere in India, but the cow is considered holy in the Hindu-majority country. In fact, slaughtering cows is banned in many Indian states, and New Delhi refuses to export them.

That refusal hasn't done much to deter the demand for beef in Bangladesh, however. In fact, say officials in Dhaka, beef has become so valuable it's spurred a dangerous cow smuggling trade across the India-Bangladesh border.

More than 2 million cows are smuggled from India to Bangladesh every year and most of the illegal trade takes place through the Indian border state of West Bengal, says Bimal Pramanik, an independent researcher in Calcutta, India.

“Bangladeshi slaughterhouses cannot source even 1 million cows from within the country. If Indian cows do not reach the Bangladeshi slaughterhouses, there will be a big crisis there,” says Mr. Pramanik, adding that 3 out of every 4 cows slaughtered in the country are from India.

“In this thriving trade, [herds of] cows worth 50 billion rupees [$920 million] are sent across to Bangladesh every year. It’s the sheer economics of the trade that drives the smuggling,” says Pramanik.

Cattle smugglers say they routinely bribe the police, customs, Border Security Force guards, and even some politicians in India to look the other way.

However, locals call this part of the border the “Wall of Death,” for the smuggling-related tensions that sometimes turn into violence. In 2012, security forces killed 48 Bangladeshis along the border, according to the Bangladeshi human rights group Ain o Salish Kendra.

But Bangladeshis say there is a simple way to end violence along the border.

"If India begins exporting cows to Bangladesh, such untoward incidents will stop," said the Bangladeshi Commerce Minister Golam Mohammad Quader. "We are really keen to import cows from India, and want all illegal activities involving cow trade across the border to end," he said.

The former head of India's Border Security Forces Utthan Kumar Bansal recently agreed:

“The menace of smuggling might be best controlled if the trade across the border is made legal. The legalization of export of cows could also help curb tension on the volatile border,” Mr. Bansal said.

Although Bansal’s comment did not trigger any government reaction in India, some right wing Hindu groups said they would never let India export cows to any country.

Radhakanta Saha, who is a World Hindu Organization leader and heads a volunteer group that aims to prevent cow smuggling in West Bengal, said: “The cow is our mother. We shall begin country-wide agitation if India decides to export cows to a country where they are likely to be slaughtered for ... meat.”

You guys don't get it. By legislation India already bans export of 'cow-meat'. This is very unlikely to change because of Hindu religious sensitivities - especially with a right-leaning Modi Govt.

India does export low quality 'Buffalo Meat' to many countries across the world - which is smelly and would be unfit for human consumption in Bangladesh because of the smell.

Low quality Buffalo meat is generally used overseas as ingredients for Cat-food and Dog-food manufacture.

So - cattle smuggling will continue unabated. Unless India wants to stop smuggling which will cost them some Rs. 30,000 crores in lost revenue. Plus the extra steps needed to halt smuggling which may again cost just as much if not many times as much.

Their Govt., their money - their decision.

 

[Saiful Islam]

Exactly!!BD peoples don't want smuggeld Indian cattle in Bangladeshi market.It greatly damages our local cattle market,and forces BD Cattle firms to shutting down.Bangladeshi cattle farmers are demanding to stop this smuggling for many years,and why not,it's them who have to loss money every time!!See if they succeed in stooping the smuggling it will be win for Bangladeshi farmers!!so no point there that they will starve BD of meats!!Only idiots will talk like this vramin HM of India!!

Sorry brother i did not get what you mean by Vramin? is it a medicine?

 

[Bilal9]

Sorry brother i did not get what you mean by Vramin? is it a medicine?

He meant Brahmin. Is his excellency (HM) a Brahmin by caste?

I honestly find it interesting that the most ardent of Hindu right wingers are not high-caste Hindus. But my knowledge is that of an outsider.

 

[Saiful Islam]

He meant Brahmin. Is his excellency (HM) a Brahmin by caste?

I honestly find it interesting that the most ardent of Hindu right wingers are not high-caste Hindus. But my knowledge is that of an outsider.

They are all cut from the same cloth.

 

[Arthur]

Bangladesh needs Indian cows otherwise there will be a big crisis. We love beef but BD can't meet such huge demand of beef alone. It needs Indian cows. ASAP..


Cow smuggling ... it's how Bangladesh gets its beef


View attachment 211970

Beef is a delicacy in Bangladesh, but Hindu-majority India refuses to sell their sacred cows. The demand is so high, however, that a dangerous $920 million cow smuggling trade has popped up.

By Shaikh Azizur Rahman, Contributor January 26, 2013

Calcutta, India — In Muslim majority Bangladesh beef is in high demand.

More than 90 percent of the 160 million people who live there are Muslims and for them beef is a delicacy.

The country's meat producers estimate that slaughterhouses need up to 3 million cows every year to feed Bangladeshi appetites, and to help meet demand, Bangladesh is eyeing neighboring India. Cows are everywhere in India, but the cow is considered holy in the Hindu-majority country. In fact, slaughtering cows is banned in many Indian states, and New Delhi refuses to export them.

That refusal hasn't done much to deter the demand for beef in Bangladesh, however. In fact, say officials in Dhaka, beef has become so valuable it's spurred a dangerous cow smuggling trade across the India-Bangladesh border.

More than 2 million cows are smuggled from India to Bangladesh every year and most of the illegal trade takes place through the Indian border state of West Bengal, says Bimal Pramanik, an independent researcher in Calcutta, India.

“Bangladeshi slaughterhouses cannot source even 1 million cows from within the country. If Indian cows do not reach the Bangladeshi slaughterhouses, there will be a big crisis there,” says Mr. Pramanik, adding that 3 out of every 4 cows slaughtered in the country are from India.

“In this thriving trade, [herds of] cows worth 50 billion rupees [$920 million] are sent across to Bangladesh every year. It’s the sheer economics of the trade that drives the smuggling,” says Pramanik.

Cattle smugglers say they routinely bribe the police, customs, Border Security Force guards, and even some politicians in India to look the other way.

However, locals call this part of the border the “Wall of Death,” for the smuggling-related tensions that sometimes turn into violence. In 2012, security forces killed 48 Bangladeshis along the border, according to the Bangladeshi human rights group Ain o Salish Kendra.

But Bangladeshis say there is a simple way to end violence along the border.

"If India begins exporting cows to Bangladesh, such untoward incidents will stop," said the Bangladeshi Commerce Minister Golam Mohammad Quader. "We are really keen to import cows from India, and want all illegal activities involving cow trade across the border to end," he said.

The former head of India's Border Security Forces Utthan Kumar Bansal recently agreed:

“The menace of smuggling might be best controlled if the trade across the border is made legal. The legalization of export of cows could also help curb tension on the volatile border,” Mr. Bansal said.

Although Bansal’s comment did not trigger any government reaction in India, some right wing Hindu groups said they would never let India export cows to any country.

Radhakanta Saha, who is a World Hindu Organization leader and heads a volunteer group that aims to prevent cow smuggling in West Bengal, said: “The cow is our mother. We shall begin country-wide agitation if India decides to export cows to a country where they are likely to be slaughtered for ... meat.”

And how do you hope that local cattle firming will grow when this amount of smuggling going on???? Number of cattle has dropped in BD since this huge number of smuggled cattle increased,it's a fact!Look around you and you will find people easily,who himself or his/her family had to give up growing up of cattle for sell,because they lost their capital money!!so you got my point,where i were coming from???!! BD people will eat less meat,but BD will loose nothing from this action.