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Shiv Sena calls for ban on chicken slaughter within Mumbai
Mumbai, Oct 23: Shiv Sena has demanded a ban on chicken slaughter within the limits of greater Mumbai and urged the poultry farms to send clean and cut chicken into the city.
Mumbai, Oct 23: Shiv Sena has demanded a ban on chicken slaughter within the limits of greater Mumbai and urged the poultry farms to send clean and cut chicken into the city.
Talking to reporters yesterday, Shiv Sena spokesperson Subash Desai demanded the ban on chicken slaughter within the city saying the birds were found to carry 100 to 200 times
more bacteria and metals like lead and mercury.
"Therefore, we request the poultry farms outside the city limits not to send the birds here for slaughter, but instead, cut and pack in hygienic conditions in their own farms and send them to Mumbai so that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) could also keep a check on them easily, he said.
Desai said there was no check on the birds which come to the poultry outlets here. No efforts were made to find out whether the birds were healthy, or suffered from diseases or were carrying germs beyond the permissible limits. Desai said because of the slaughter that are carried out within the city the solid waste disposal posed environmental hazard. "The solid waste after the slaughter is thrown everywhere which not only becomes a breeding ground for several insects and worms and bacteria but sometimes even chokes the drainage."
Clarifying the statement on ban on chicken slaughter, he said, "How can I stop people eating chicken? Shiv Sena only wants supply of clean chicken in the city." Desai said ban on chicken slaughter within the city limits already existed in Delhi and Chandigarh and added, "We are not asking anything new from the Maharashtra government."
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"Therefore, we request the poultry farms outside the city limits not to send the birds here for slaughter, but instead, cut and pack in hygienic conditions in their own farms and send them to Mumbai so that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) could also keep a check on them easily, he said.
Desai said there was no check on the birds which come to the poultry outlets here. No efforts were made to find out whether the birds were healthy, or suffered from diseases or were carrying germs beyond the permissible limits. Desai said because of the slaughter that are carried out within the city the solid waste disposal posed environmental hazard. "The solid waste after the slaughter is thrown everywhere which not only becomes a breeding ground for several insects and worms and bacteria but sometimes even chokes the drainage."
Clarifying the statement on ban on chicken slaughter, he said, "How can I stop people eating chicken? Shiv Sena only wants supply of clean chicken in the city." Desai said ban on chicken slaughter within the city limits already existed in Delhi and Chandigarh and added, "We are not asking anything new from the Maharashtra government."
Bureau Report