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Carcass Industry


“Necessity is the mother of invention”- might sound cliché but couldn’t find any apt reference describing the shocking revelation of carcass meat supply scandal. Bengal has seen famine in between 1769 - 1773 (1176-1180 in Bengali Calendar), but even then when almost one third of Bengals population got starved to death and people literally became omnivorous, couldn’t consume carcass meat. That was pre-independence era and we are talking of 70 years post independence when Bengal proclaims its growth in every facet. Had this scandal not revealed, we would have been in complete dark about this heinous nexus operating well over a decade and spread even across the border of the state. I still cannot comprehend that what degree of unscrupulousness give birth to people who can even contemplate of doing what they have done.

 

On the other hand, it is hard to believe that without the active help and support from the politicians and administration this nexus was operative for so many years. Though a very few such connections has got surfaced up but there are reason to believe that those are just the tip of the iceberg.  As usual, the game of passing the buck to opposite political parties has started.  

 

On a lighter note, one spare for thought is that the number of reported cases of toxicity after eating carcass meat is significantly less in number considering the time span of the episode. Does it mean that the people of Bengal mutated themselves to such degree that they remain unaffected?

 

Last but not least, we never knew that in a civilized society carcass meat for human consumption can form an industry. Bengal has once again proved they can inject innovative idea which will redefine the terminology of industry.

 

Who says that there is dearth of industry in Bengal and young guns does not have any future here?  Please think again.    


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