Selling India's Sacred Cow

The cow is a sacred animal in India with nearly 80% of its Hindu population abstaining from eating beef and worshiping the animal for its production of milk. Surprisingly enough, the country has become the world's largest exporter of beef products, exporting more than 2 million tonnes a year and consuming just as much. Why is India selling the sacred cow? Dr Yamini Narayanan (DECRA Senior Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University) talks to Matt Smith about this clash of ideals which have become a topic of controversy, corruption and murder in India. Yamini Narayanan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yamininarayanan Matt Smith on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nightlightguy Photo: Peter Roome via Flickr Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea