The slaughter of cows is already prohibited in the state under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act of 1976. The new Act will ban the slaughter of bulls and bullocks, which was earlier permitted on a fit-for-slaughter certificate (the new Act will allow slaughter of water buffaloes, which provides carabeef — seen as an inferior quality meat). While Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wrote on a microblog, "Thanks a lot Hon President Sir for the assent on Maharashtra Animal Preservation Bill. Our dream of ban on cow slaughter becomes a reality now," it has also thrown up a lot of adverse reactions online and off it...


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