Beef has gone missing from the Goan platter and surely there is a lot of clatter around it. Social media is abuzz with jokes of the ban on beef in neighboring Maharashtra. But in Goa a million thanks to the authorities who finally realized that we need to eat only hygienic beef. The hygienic route was taken here in Goa to keep beef away. Though all would appreciate that step, one is left to wonder and then wander around our fish markets, chicken and mutton stalls to see what the authorities failed to see. The stricken goat, frightened chicken and the breathless fish have no sympathizers. The lucky beef and the lucky Goans we will now eat only hygienic beef. Forget the filthy fish market and the smelly stalls that do not bother the authorities. And in Goa we are still wondering why was beef singled out for strict conditions for transportation and hygienic standards and not chicken, mutton and fish and for that matter pork too. The politics of beef will only get louder by the day and the lucky beef exporters will surely have “Achhe Din” in the coming days.
Asif Hussain, Alto Dabolim
