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Indian buffalo meat (carabeef), including its treatment in meat-export statistics and policy.

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A June 2026 Instagram reel questions Yogi Adityanath's remarks about cows by citing Uttar Pradesh's meat exports. Government records confirm substantial buffalo-meat trade, but not the reel's implication that exported meat comes from cows or that the Chief Minister personally directs slaughter.

Open Post: Cow as ‘mother’, buffalo meat as export: what a reel’s challenge to Yogi Adityanath reveals about Uttar Pradesh

Modi’s 2012 criticism of India’s ‘beef export’ position referred to a trade category that international datasets use for buffalo meat; Indian policy prohibits cow, ox and calf beef exports while permitting boneless buffalo meat. That export trade did not disappear under Modi: APEDA reports $5.10 billion of buffalo-meat exports in 2025–26 and calls India the…

Open Post: India still exports buffalo meat at scale; the Modi ‘beef’ contradiction depends on terminology and context