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