As head of a cow protection enforcement team, he regularly scours Delhi grocery stores and outdoor markets for food products containing cow beef.
While the bulk of Indian exports is buffalo meat bound for Middle East and Southeast Asian markets, the growing middle class in Arab countries has sparked a new craving for cow beef.
Now, several EU countries have announced unilateral import restrictions on French beef following the mad cow scare there.
Dozens of countries have banned the import of British beef, but Europeans have begun to avoid any beef, as the "mad cow" disease panic spreads.
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Tourism here is down, and thousands of jobs got axed when the U.S. slapped tariffs on exports of softwood and then banned Canadian beef after an outbreak of mad cow disease.
When France lifted a six-year ban on British beef in October after a mad cow scare, the government announced it would pass a law requiring restaurants to say where their meat came from.
The Amarillo, Texas, jury decided the television talk show host did not maliciously harm the U.S. beef industry in a 1996 program on mad cow disease.
Some weeks ago, the government's scientists advised it that the deadly human equivalent of mad-cow disease might be transmitted through beef bones, although the risks were tiny.
Japan is especially reluctant to do so, as was illustrated by a recent spat over American beef, in which fears of mad-cow disease strengthened the hands of protectionists.
The researchers found that growing mealworms released less greenhouse gases than producing cow milk, chicken, pork and beef.
At the moment, the South Koreans do not, due to Mad Cow concerns, allow the importation of beef from cattle 30 months or older.
The decision, confirmed by a ministry press official in Brasilia, follows Egypt's ban of beef on Monday from Parana state, where a cow that died two years ago had developed atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
MSN: Saudi Arabia bans Brazil beef imports on mad cow doubts
And his argument regarding the hypocrisy of food lovers not bothering to consume the remainder of the goose despite using their fat is akin to blaming consumers who use beef dripping for not purchasing the rest of the cow as well.
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Australia barred British beef and by-products in 1996 as concerns mounted that mad cow disease could be linked to the fatal human condition, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).
The U.S. has not only been priced out of those beef markets, but also faced sanitary bans due to an outbreak of mad cow disease in 2003 which put Brazil at No. 1.
Prior to Saudi Arabia, only Japan, China and South Africa had halted imports of all Brazilian beef since Brazil announced on December 7 that a 13-year-old cow that died in 2010 in Parana tested positive for the protein linked to the development of BSE.
MSN: Saudi Arabia bans Brazil beef imports on mad cow doubts
And this came against a backdrop of the mad-cow disease scare in the US, which put many consumers off eating beef.
Even so, Naomi Starkman, a food media consultant to Consumers Union, said in a statement that the documented case of a BSE positive cow raised serious questions about the future safety of U.S. beef.
McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people) will post first-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street expectations, largely because mad-cow, a degenerative neurological disease that can infect humans who eat tainted beef, has scared Europeans away from the company's beef.
French consumption of beef plunged last year when three supermarket chains said they had sold beef from a herd containing an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as mad cow disease.
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