ABSTRACT
In Asia, home to over 60 per cent of the world’s population, India is perhaps the only nation that concerns itself with animal welfare at all. Food processing no longer connotes dealing with vegetables or cereals or turning the earth to grow from it. Food processing is about meat and the meat industry. In India, animal farming is not a question of compassion or not. As a largely agricultural nation, India is hugely dependent on its animals. To begin with, Indian meat is priced far lower than that from any other country - at only 40 per cent of world market prices - so we have to kill two to three times the number of animals to earn the same from meat export as any other nation. The issues surrounding goat production go far beyond the morals of meat eating or animal welfare.
