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Challenging India’s Proposed Beef Ban

Last month, in a city just outside of New Dehli, an angry mob of 60 people beat a Muslim man named Mohammad Akhlaq to death and left his son in critical condition. The crime that drew the ire of the mob — the man had allegedly eaten beef. 80 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people ostensibly consider the cow sacred and 24 of the 29 states in the country explicitly ban the slaughter of cows.

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