Karnataka Anti-slaughter Law Neither Protects Cows, Nor the Poor Who Tend to Them
Except for stoking communalism, such laws will only reduce dwindling bovine populations, as farmers have nowhere to go to sell their older cows and buffaloes, thus reducing their ability to rear them.
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Rights10/Feb/2021
I have been actively participating in Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (Karnataka State Farmers Movement, or KRRS) for over 20 years. One of my earliest memories is of a beef biriyani party organised in front of the state assembly by KRRS and our allies in defiance of Brahminist vegetarian purity. This and other colorful agitations, including âsimple self-respectâ weddings organised under a collective banner called âJaati Vinaasha Vedikeâ (platform for caste abolition) in villages to promote inter-caste and inter-religious weddings, have been a few yet noteworthy efforts by KRRS against Brahminism and for a caste-free society.