On the Economic Implications of Restrictions on Cow
Slaughter
Jul 11th 2017, Vikas Rawal
India's
livestock economy is among the biggest in the world.
A ban on cow slaughter would either result in more and
more unproductive animals being killed in most unscientific
and cruel ways or would entail such a high cost for
maintaining unproductive animals that cattle rearing
would cease to be a profitable enterprise for farm households.
Restrictions being imposed on cow slaughter and the
actions of the cow vigilantes would deal a serious blow
to the agrarian economy and in particular to the livelihoods
of the poor and middle peasants in rural India.
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