{"id":20466,"date":"2015-10-16T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20466"},"modified":"2015-10-16T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:04:48","slug":"reply-to-storm-over-move-to-ban-cow-killings-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20466","title":{"rendered":"Reply to &#8220;Storm over move to ban cow killings&#8221; article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-VR9L8t1AG4U\/ViDLVx86ZGI\/AAAAAAAAVJw\/tCZudojVIi0\/s0\/2015-10-16_12-02-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This edition of the AFFCAP newsletter contains a challenging article (pge. 17), found on <a href=\"http:\/\/islamawareness.net\" target=\"_blank\">islamawareness.net<\/a>, entitled <i>Storm over move to ban cow killings, <\/i>which advocates the continuance of cow slaughter, and is critical of recent legislative changes against the practice in India.<\/p>\n<p>One of their arguments relates to the depriving of meat to the poor of the country. They report that the cost of beef is lower than other meats, with the costs of mutton and chicken double that of beef. Consequently, it is clamed to disadvantageously affect the poor if access to beef is withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of being painted heartless, one solution is to let these unfortunate souls change to a vegetarian diet\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The balance of the newsletter can be found at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/affcap.org\/images\/NewsLetter\/635805409823690653_Sept%20-%20Oct.%202015%20newsletter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/affcap.org\/images\/<wbr>NewsLetter\/635805409823690653_<wbr>Sept%20-%20Oct.%202015%<wbr>20newsletter.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-VR9L8t1AG4U\/ViDLVx86ZGI\/AAAAAAAAVJw\/tCZudojVIi0\/s0\/2015-10-16_12-02-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>AFFCAP: This edition of the AFFCAP newsletter contains a challenging article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20468,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466\/revisions\/20468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}