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Why is there so much opposition to jallikattu?
Why is there so much opposition to jallikattu?

There are 2 angles to the opposition.

First is the urban disconnect with rural India and all that it entails. Policies are made by city folk. Just as we destroyed the lakes of Chennai and suffered the consequences of ignoring the traditional knowledge of villagers in building and maintaining water bodies, we are allowing the same urban mindset to get away with rampant destruction of our livestock and farming. If we look at media reports over the last decade or so, every headline screams about injuries in a jallikattu event. The focus of the urban editors and reporters has always been on sensationalising news and grabbing eyeballs. Fed with this constant diet over a decade, it’s no surprise that so many internet warriors are shouting about jallikattu.

In a year, there are 10,000 circumstances of a bull leaving the vaadi vaasal (gate) throughout jallikattu. Of the countless gamers who participate, barely 50-100 get hurt in a year, and deaths are much less.

The 2nd group is the dairy lobby, which desires all native types to be gotten rid of. Occasions like jallikattu toss a spanner in their strategies of producing industrial dairy farms with imported types much like in the West.

Beef exporters likewise gain from a restriction on jallikattu and other occasions. Farmers bring their livestocks to be offered in weekly/monthly and yearly shandies. Brokers will take the livestocks from the farmers and hold them to be shown to potential purchasers. Purchasers fall under 3-4 classifications:

(1) The jallikattu lover who will purchase the bulls and male calves primarily;

(2) Purchasers of oxen for farming/transport;

(3) Purchasers of cows for reproducing and home use;

(4) Beef traders who are primarily if not all representatives of export business and massacre homes based in Kerala. They purchase all livestocks as they are just thinking about meat.

When a ban on jallikattu is in place, the simple supply-demand equation gets skewed. There are no takers in the first category, which means the bulls will only sought by the fourth category i.e. beef traders. With no demand from jallikattu enthusiasts, the price of such prized bulls falls to rock bottom. By killing the market for bulls to be used in jallikattu, the animal rights activists are directly responsible for sending them to slaughter. There is a huge demand for Bos Indicus variety beef in the Gulf, Malaysia and Western countries. It is considered an exotic and healthy meat, just like country chicken.