Donkey slaughter rises in AP as people believe meat can cure breathing problems DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Updated Feb 26, 2021, 3:36 am IST
For the past two years, animal activists in Maharashtra are lodging complaints on illegal transport of donkeys
Donkeys are named in the extinction list. (AFP Image)
KAKINADA: Donkeys are illegally being slaughtered on the banks of Eluru Canal in West Godavari and the remains are being dumped in the canal, endangering public health.
Donkeys are named in the extinction list. Yet, hundreds of them across the country and in Andhra Pradesh are being slaughtered for meat. Belief is that donkey meat can cure respiratory and breathing problems and increase the sexual potential of humans.
In Andhra Pradesh, authorities are probing the alleged consumption of donkey meat by some people, believing in myths that it will heal back pain and asthma.
VISAKHAPATNAM: The consumption of donkey meat is growing in popularity in several districts of Andhra Pradesh. Reports of donkey slaughter are coming in from West Godavari, Krishna, Prakasam and Guntur. But the donkey is not registered as a ‘food animal’. Consequently, the slaughter of such an animal is illegal according to Food Safety and Standards, 2011.
People who relish donkey meat claim that the flesh of the beast of burden increases strength and virility. Donkey meat eaters take considerable pain to find the meat from illegal traders and then buy it at hefty prices often running into the thousands.
According to a cross-section of officials, while donkey milk has been popular for years, the popularity of donkey meat is a fairly recent phenomenon.
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