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India’s beef debates affects tanners

29/10/2015

Ongoing tensions in India over cattle slaughter and beef exports are affecting tanners’ raw material supply. Cows are revered in Hindu culture and their killing is banned in some states, but India is the world’s largest buffalo meat exporter. The issue has escalated since Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was elected 18 months ago....

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