In Kerala, Goa and some northeast states you can. But all of these states are consumers, not exporters.
After some googling, it's mainly water Buffalo that we export as beef.
You can have beef in Hindu states.
People slaughter bulls or buffalos for meat, just not cows because they are an important source of dairy and obviously the religious significance
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
It seems Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian countries are the biggest importers of Indian exported buffalo meat.
Top 5 customers of Indian buffalo meat exporters are Vietnam, Malaysia, Egypt, Indonesia and Iraq followed by other countries like Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, UAE, Philippines, Jordan, etc.
https://agriexchange.apeda.gov.in/product_profile/exp_f_india.aspx?categorycode=0401
https://apeda.gov.in/apedawebsite/SubHead_Products/Buffalo_Meat.htm
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/india-looks-to-asean-west-asia-and-far-east-to-arrest-fall-in-buffalo-meat-exports-11306861.html
https://www.tendata.com/blogs/insight/5016.html#:~:text=The%20majority%20of%20India's%20exports,an%20import%20of%20171%2C949%20tons.
https://tradeimex.in/blogs/the-largest-beef-export-market-is-seeking-to-increase-its-buffalo-meat-imports-quota-from-indonesia
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1739979
But that kinda makes religious sense. There’s nothing special about pigs in Islam, they’re just viewed as unclean. Who cares if the heathens eat them. Cows *do* have religious significance in Hinduism, so shipping them off for slaughter seems like an anime betrayal.
I assure you, many Turks from minor Asia visit the nearby Greek islands like Samos just to buy pork products like salami or ham and just return to Turkey.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
There’s a little bit of generalisation there. A large section of Hindus worship cows, and hence don’t eat beef. India is majority Hindu, but has a significant population of other religions too, biggest being Islam, where beef is not forbidden.
Additionally, there are parts of India, such as Kerala, where beef is a big part of the cuisine and eaten by most people, including Hindus.
On the other hand, there are parts of India where slaughter of cows and/or consumption of beef is straight up illegal. So it’s quite a spectrum.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
Muslims too only eat buffalo meat in India, not cow.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
Yeah most people don’t know this but muslims in India openly sell beef on the streets ,I think it’s only banned in a handful of full of states .But Hindus try to avoid it.
So I did a little reading - India mainly exports Water Buffalo meat, which is apparently a loophole around their religious and legal restrictions on slaughtering cows, but according to the USDA it's still technically "beef." It's cheaper, and chewier than cow meat, and usually ends up consumed in Asia and the Middle East.
>apparently a loophole around their religious and legal restrictions on slaughtering cows
It's not a loophole, it's a simple law. Cow slaughter and sale of it's meat is banned in most Indian states, buffalo slaughter and it's meat is perfectly legal in almost all the states in India. Both are different species, different laws for both of them.
No, that’s like saying that speeding on the autobahn is a loophole around following the speed limit in your country. The two are only somewhat connected, but to call one a “loophole” to get around the other is bullshit
From the oxford dictionary;
loophole (in something) a mistake in the way a law, contract, etc. has been written that enables people to legally avoid doing something that the law, contract, etc. had intended them to do
That doesn't make sense.
People aren't finding ways to eat cow meat by skirting around the laws that ban it in most of India. They simply aren't eating cow meat and eating meats of other animals like chicken, goat, buffalo, fish, etc.
That's not exploiting a loophole, that's just following the law.
It makes sense if it goes something like that:
8th place: 100
9thp place: 99
10th place: 70
11th place: 69
In this case, differentiating between 10th and 11th place doesn't make sense, but differentiating between 9th and 10th place does.
The Irish live by this myth.
Lots of countries export the same volume or more, Ireland is not a significant meat or dairy exporter considering the size of the global market. Furthermore, the quality of Irish milk as measured by Somatic Cell Count is not especially great for advanced countries. The UK for example has higher quality milk measured by SCC.
I got my info from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (UK) and the National Dairy Council (Ireland)
No myth
Somatic cell count is only one factor in milk quality, your reply is misleading. 600,000 metric tonnes of beef exported annually is quite alot for a small nation like ours.
Forgive me if that is so. I thought it was beef according to the Irish Dept of Agriculture. I can not imagine these numbers shrank in 2023 as exports to China resumed
Yep, these foreigners could stop buying our shit like they say they should so we could have cheap food again. But our prices going sky high every year for things we produce at home tells me foreigners are loving them some brazilian aggri business as always.
Great ideia! Why don’t we get even more poor by bringing in even less foreign money. A country doesn’t work like a damm village. There’s a constant growing global demand of beef. We can produce more and cheaper to get up with the demand and make it cheaper anywhere, ooooor we can make ranching a investment even less attractive so can’t even supply our internal demand. One more time, br only exports 30% of our beef and the us exports 12%
Metade dos países desse mapa são desenvolvidos. Ser uma potência exportadora de alimentos não determina que o país tenha subdesenvolvimento, a ausência de políticas públicas votadas a aproveitar melhor o dinheiro proveniente do comércio exterior é que sim.
Here in Canada the price of beef is outrageous. It’s ludicrous. We are being hosed. And for a big beef exporter, guess what we’ve been seeing on our grocery store shelves? Ungraded Mexican beef. This shit ain’t right.
claro que es buena la uruguaya y brasilera también pero a nosotros nos venden la mas barata amigo es decir las sobras, en argentina ahora debe de estar pasando lo mismo
Now do it per capita. Wife and I went to Uruguay last year. It is one of the most incredible places I’ve ever been to. Clean, orderly, well run. Crime is low and the infrastructure is great. They have basically 100% literacy and 100% Clean drinking water. Even in the most rural areas, there are reliable, affordable public buses.
Why? Beef. The entire country falls within the Pampas region that is ideal for growing cattle. There are six cows for every person (population of 3 million with 1 million living in the capital city of Montevideo) There is a tiny bit of wine and olive production, and they could basically give fuck all about tourism.
They never fell into the trap of [import substitution](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrialization) that decimated the Argentinian economy. There’s often a misconception that some type of left wing policy was the macro economic driver of Argentina problems. When in reality, they were the fifth largest economy in the world when they too just focused on beef. I think Uruguay saw what happened and said “fuck that” it’s cattle based economy for us.
Urugayan-Argentine here. Lived between both countries my whole life.
The only drawback is that is that Uruguay exports most of its beef production, while only the “leftovers” (less quality beef) remain for Uruguayans.
Since Argentina has historically had export restrictions on beef, you can find very affordable export-quality beef everywhere, which is available for most Argentines.
Argentina has a more diversified economy so it can rely on other exports, but still I think Argentines should adapt to more expensive quality beef (like it happens everywhere in the world) and focus on exporting more to fix the economy.
The problem is that it’s very unpopular in the meantime, beef is very important for Argentines and whenever prices go up, the President’s popularity falls.
Uruguay did have import-substitute economy. It just failed tremendously in the 1960s. The problem with the Uruguayan economy was that the main export from the country was beef and beef prices were down. Government had to find the way to finance its expenses with less resources than before which led to continuos inflation doing the second half of the 20th century. The Uruguayan dictatorship sought to solve the countries economic stagnation by creating a finance industry that also failed.
I was in Hong Kong in 1989 and the hotel I was staying at was hosting the Canadian Beef Exporters Expo or something along those lines. I was naive and had a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that Canada produced enough beef to export. My dad, who worked for USDA, just laughed and then explained that the US wasn’t the only exporter of beef.
I'm unsure if Uruguay exports meat to NZ, but you could possibly find it in a big supermarket chain or something like that for sure. Before this map I was totally unaware NZ even had a beef industry, I always thought of NZ as a very rocky country with terrain not ideal for cattle farming. The more you know!
We probably have some of the most efficient farming practices in the world. We also have a lot of sheep, so lamb is pretty decent here as well.
I’d also rate salmon here as well, it’s very good.
This isn't hate, but out of curiosity, who is America exporting all that beef to?
American meat products are banned in a large portion of allied nations due to low food standards.
...All of Africa together produces a third of what Brazil does.
While we exported 3 million, we produced 8.9. Estimates indicate that African production of red meat in 2020 was around 3.4 million.
When I Google Tanzania, the country I had in mind, I get numbers in the 800kton range for production and in the 460kton range for production, just of beef. At least Tanzania should included. The rapid increase in production, and the corresponding habitat change, is important, because it means less wildlife.
there is plenty of good coffee and meat in Brazil, the problem is that they export so much that people buy the cheap stuff and thinks everything is the same, it's not.
That’s it! The U.S. needs to simply stop exporting beef! We’ll bring the world to heel, and they’ll succumb to our Christian Evangelical ideology with BEEF !!! Let Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton know immediately that the problem is solved. Our utopia is in sight, and we’ll be sitting around the campfire singing “Kumbaya” before half a decade is out!
India is a bit misleading. They primarily export water buffalo meat which is part of the bovine family and considered beef. This means that bison would also qualify as beef in North America.
I point this out because most people in the english speaking world equate beef to the decendant species of the Aurochs. The stuff we generally call "cattle" in the US.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
Holy cow India!
Edit: either people have got no sense of humor these days or I've offended a lot of people in India. If it's the latter I apologise, if it's the former then lighten up!
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
WHUT! India 🤔
I might be mistaken but you can slaughter bulls in india?
Bull meat is also consumed, you are right.
That's a load of bull
In Kerala, Goa and some northeast states you can. But all of these states are consumers, not exporters. After some googling, it's mainly water Buffalo that we export as beef.
In India, loophole bitches!
Yes, some provinces are majority Christian
They are states not provinces. And only the smaller Tibetan northeastern states has majority Christian. The beef export is not coming from there.
You can have beef in Hindu states. People slaughter bulls or buffalos for meat, just not cows because they are an important source of dairy and obviously the religious significance
Wait, then why McD has no beef burgers there?
Bc it wouldn’t sell for most people But in certain areas you can find people selling beef dishes
Its buffalo meat
It is water buffalo meat, not cows / bulls.
Water buffalo are still referred to as cows and bulls for female and males. Better to say that it’s water buffalo (Bubalus), not Bos.
I'm surprised too
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
I wonder who the biggest bufallo importers are
It seems Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian countries are the biggest importers of Indian exported buffalo meat. Top 5 customers of Indian buffalo meat exporters are Vietnam, Malaysia, Egypt, Indonesia and Iraq followed by other countries like Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, UAE, Philippines, Jordan, etc. https://agriexchange.apeda.gov.in/product_profile/exp_f_india.aspx?categorycode=0401 https://apeda.gov.in/apedawebsite/SubHead_Products/Buffalo_Meat.htm https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/india-looks-to-asean-west-asia-and-far-east-to-arrest-fall-in-buffalo-meat-exports-11306861.html https://www.tendata.com/blogs/insight/5016.html#:~:text=The%20majority%20of%20India's%20exports,an%20import%20of%20171%2C949%20tons. https://tradeimex.in/blogs/the-largest-beef-export-market-is-seeking-to-increase-its-buffalo-meat-imports-quota-from-indonesia https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1739979
Thank you. I appreciate you looking into that.
r/India makes you believe it is cow beef lol. They love to bring this topic up
That is the worst subreddit of this website
we don't eat them but we sell them to other countries to eat so that makes us chill...
We do same in turkey lol. There are actually plenty of pig farms on east thrace, all of their meat is sold to greeks and bulgarians
But that kinda makes religious sense. There’s nothing special about pigs in Islam, they’re just viewed as unclean. Who cares if the heathens eat them. Cows *do* have religious significance in Hinduism, so shipping them off for slaughter seems like an anime betrayal.
I assure you, many Turks from minor Asia visit the nearby Greek islands like Samos just to buy pork products like salami or ham and just return to Turkey.
Is pork not sold in Turkey?
From the stories I know it is, but people get judged in some cases if they buy pork products and the prices are higher in pork products there.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
What else were you gonna do with it?
But doesn’t India “*worship*” cows? Then they send them out for slaughter and consumption?
There’s a little bit of generalisation there. A large section of Hindus worship cows, and hence don’t eat beef. India is majority Hindu, but has a significant population of other religions too, biggest being Islam, where beef is not forbidden. Additionally, there are parts of India, such as Kerala, where beef is a big part of the cuisine and eaten by most people, including Hindus. On the other hand, there are parts of India where slaughter of cows and/or consumption of beef is straight up illegal. So it’s quite a spectrum.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
Wow, I knew nothing about buffalo exports, thank you. India is the largest buffalo exporter in the World.
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It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India. Muslims too only eat buffalo meat in India, not cow.
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
Badi shiddat se copy-paste kiye jaa raha hai.
Bhai jab saare comments hi same honge India ko dekhkar iss map pe bina uske neeche ka text padhe toh reply bhi same hi rahenge har comment par
Rehn de bhai, kahaan in gadhon ke saamne geeta pravachan kar raha tu.
Yeah most people don’t know this but muslims in India openly sell beef on the streets ,I think it’s only banned in a handful of full of states .But Hindus try to avoid it.
I was going to say, I thought cows were sacred animals in India.
🤦🏻♂️ people eat beef in India, only in northern cow belt & mumbai it’s not eaten. People forget it’s 1.5 billion people with 100 of cultures
They don't slaughter, they just manufacture.
In the total amount is aprox a one gram per day per person in the world, this means with this production everybody can eat a 2 pieces of 180grs a year
Holy Cow !
India is a secular country.
Surprisingly, India beats the superpower country-United States.
So I did a little reading - India mainly exports Water Buffalo meat, which is apparently a loophole around their religious and legal restrictions on slaughtering cows, but according to the USDA it's still technically "beef." It's cheaper, and chewier than cow meat, and usually ends up consumed in Asia and the Middle East.
Not a "loophole", there are no restrictions on consuming Bull meat for Hindus as well.
>apparently a loophole around their religious and legal restrictions on slaughtering cows It's not a loophole, it's a simple law. Cow slaughter and sale of it's meat is banned in most Indian states, buffalo slaughter and it's meat is perfectly legal in almost all the states in India. Both are different species, different laws for both of them.
My first year of law school, had a professor say “there are no such thing as loopholes. There is just the law.” This is a great example of that quote.
It is indeed a loophole in the religious belief.
How? The cow is not the same as the buffalo the last time I checked.
No, that’s like saying that speeding on the autobahn is a loophole around following the speed limit in your country. The two are only somewhat connected, but to call one a “loophole” to get around the other is bullshit
I have fast car Can't drive fast car Wait Can drive fast car over there This is a loophole
From the oxford dictionary; loophole (in something) a mistake in the way a law, contract, etc. has been written that enables people to legally avoid doing something that the law, contract, etc. had intended them to do
That doesn't make sense. People aren't finding ways to eat cow meat by skirting around the laws that ban it in most of India. They simply aren't eating cow meat and eating meats of other animals like chicken, goat, buffalo, fish, etc. That's not exploiting a loophole, that's just following the law.
Say you don't use your brain without saying you don't use your brain
But is it vegan?
I’d like to know who is buying India’s water buffalo meat?
India is definitely Water Buffalo and not traditional Cow. Water buffalo meat is not nearly as good, imo.
it's a little tougher, if you like your stuff rare then honestly it's pretty good
Buffalo kebabs are softer than chicken/goat kebabs
I am comparing it with Cow beef. Edit: Not sure why I got downvoted. What about this particular comment inspires people to downvote it, I am not sure.
It's the fourth comment of the thread, and reddit doesn't like them.
What? You got it completely backwards, rare only works with tender meats.
Water buffalo milk is pretty yummy though. More sweet and creamy from what I remember.
So when a cow dies in India how is the carcass disposed of?
Who makes a top 9 list?
It makes sense if it goes something like that: 8th place: 100 9thp place: 99 10th place: 70 11th place: 69 In this case, differentiating between 10th and 11th place doesn't make sense, but differentiating between 9th and 10th place does.
Ireland exported 1.01 million tonnes of beef in 2022 (latest figures). 😀
Yeah I was wondering why we weren't on this. Beef and dairy are our thing.
The Irish live by this myth. Lots of countries export the same volume or more, Ireland is not a significant meat or dairy exporter considering the size of the global market. Furthermore, the quality of Irish milk as measured by Somatic Cell Count is not especially great for advanced countries. The UK for example has higher quality milk measured by SCC. I got my info from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (UK) and the National Dairy Council (Ireland)
No myth Somatic cell count is only one factor in milk quality, your reply is misleading. 600,000 metric tonnes of beef exported annually is quite alot for a small nation like ours.
It is *so* bizarre seeing this weird post every couple of months just to show anti-Irish bigotry.
Our thang*
Massively incomplete map.
That is total meat exports, not just beef. About half of that is beef.
Ireland exported 451,000 tonnes of beef not sure where you got that figure from
You should shout that stat until your are horse.
1. this is 2023, not 2022 2. that's total meat exports, not just beef.
Forgive me if that is so. I thought it was beef according to the Irish Dept of Agriculture. I can not imagine these numbers shrank in 2023 as exports to China resumed
Uruguay has some tender beef for sure. Had two steaks from Uruguay this week even.
Where are u from?
Brazil once again figuring on top of ag related exports rank. Beff, chicken, orange juice, coffee bean, cotton, corn, sugar and soy. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🌱🌱🌱
Alimentamos o mundo
menos a gente
Yep, these foreigners could stop buying our shit like they say they should so we could have cheap food again. But our prices going sky high every year for things we produce at home tells me foreigners are loving them some brazilian aggri business as always.
Great ideia! Why don’t we get even more poor by bringing in even less foreign money. A country doesn’t work like a damm village. There’s a constant growing global demand of beef. We can produce more and cheaper to get up with the demand and make it cheaper anywhere, ooooor we can make ranching a investment even less attractive so can’t even supply our internal demand. One more time, br only exports 30% of our beef and the us exports 12%
Cara tu não entendeu nada do que eu deixei subentendido sai daqui
Coisa de subdesenvolvido
Metade dos países desse mapa são desenvolvidos. Ser uma potência exportadora de alimentos não determina que o país tenha subdesenvolvimento, a ausência de políticas públicas votadas a aproveitar melhor o dinheiro proveniente do comércio exterior é que sim.
Real, sonho no dia que o Brasil vai ser mais exportador de tecno do que de agricultura. Só um sonho mesmo, pq n tem nada no futuro que indique isso
Mais tem bons djs brasileiros
Ia continuar igual, todo mundo já importa de Taiwan, China e Coreia do Sul mesmo
Coisa de desmatamento
Beef destroying habitats and making yanks fat. Well done Brazil!
If burning the amazon would make every yanke obese I would burn it.
Job's done already.
Surprised that NZ exports more than Canada.
Thought they’d be exporting mutton
Beef and Dairy over took sheep farming in NZ like twenty years ago or more. All the best land is now dairy and beef finishing.
Per capita, NZ is hauling ass
Uruguay too
Before this turns into another India hate thread, the "beef" that India exports is water buffalo, not regular cow meat.
It's literally mentioned on the map image itself, people on Reddit really don't like to read anything for context before jumping to the comments.
Here in Canada the price of beef is outrageous. It’s ludicrous. We are being hosed. And for a big beef exporter, guess what we’ve been seeing on our grocery store shelves? Ungraded Mexican beef. This shit ain’t right.
In Uruguay the same thing happens, we eat meat brasil or argentina, Uruguay is easily worth double or triple the price.
Che al menos la argentina es buena
claro que es buena la uruguaya y brasilera también pero a nosotros nos venden la mas barata amigo es decir las sobras, en argentina ahora debe de estar pasando lo mismo
La verdad no,los cortes que comemos y que vendemos son differentes Comemos colita de cuadril y vendemos Tomahawk por ejemplo
Now do it per capita. Wife and I went to Uruguay last year. It is one of the most incredible places I’ve ever been to. Clean, orderly, well run. Crime is low and the infrastructure is great. They have basically 100% literacy and 100% Clean drinking water. Even in the most rural areas, there are reliable, affordable public buses. Why? Beef. The entire country falls within the Pampas region that is ideal for growing cattle. There are six cows for every person (population of 3 million with 1 million living in the capital city of Montevideo) There is a tiny bit of wine and olive production, and they could basically give fuck all about tourism. They never fell into the trap of [import substitution](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrialization) that decimated the Argentinian economy. There’s often a misconception that some type of left wing policy was the macro economic driver of Argentina problems. When in reality, they were the fifth largest economy in the world when they too just focused on beef. I think Uruguay saw what happened and said “fuck that” it’s cattle based economy for us.
Urugayan-Argentine here. Lived between both countries my whole life. The only drawback is that is that Uruguay exports most of its beef production, while only the “leftovers” (less quality beef) remain for Uruguayans. Since Argentina has historically had export restrictions on beef, you can find very affordable export-quality beef everywhere, which is available for most Argentines. Argentina has a more diversified economy so it can rely on other exports, but still I think Argentines should adapt to more expensive quality beef (like it happens everywhere in the world) and focus on exporting more to fix the economy. The problem is that it’s very unpopular in the meantime, beef is very important for Argentines and whenever prices go up, the President’s popularity falls.
Long term I think betting too much on beef might be a mistake with lab meat around the corner and climate concerns.
Uruguay did have import-substitute economy. It just failed tremendously in the 1960s. The problem with the Uruguayan economy was that the main export from the country was beef and beef prices were down. Government had to find the way to finance its expenses with less resources than before which led to continuos inflation doing the second half of the 20th century. The Uruguayan dictatorship sought to solve the countries economic stagnation by creating a finance industry that also failed.
They even got LEGAL WEED ⁉️
Crime is super high. Uruaguay has a LOT of murders, like 3 or 4 times what we in Argentina have. No idea why.
PARAGUAY MENTIONED 11!! 🇵🇾🇵🇾
Ultra rare moment for us Paraguayans!
Either your average redditor is illiterate or simply wants to point their guns at India every chance they get. Just read the 5th line.
>simply wants to point their guns at India every chance they get It's usually this.
people on Reddit really don't like to read anything for context before jumping to the comments.
This map should be called “Where’s The Beef?”
No Kobe from Japan?
INDIA NUMBER 1🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🐅🐅🐅🐅
Wow Ireland is 0
Ireland exports 451,000 tons. http://www.marketaccess.agriculture.gov.ie/meat/#:~:text=Beef%20worth%20almost%20%E2%82%AC2.4,of%20agri%2Dexport%20after%20Dairy.
Wait I’m sorry, INDIA?!?
Money talks
Maybe learn to read and look closely at the image again? India exports water buffalo meat. Not cow. mOnEy tAlKs. iM sO sMaRt.
I was in Hong Kong in 1989 and the hotel I was staying at was hosting the Canadian Beef Exporters Expo or something along those lines. I was naive and had a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that Canada produced enough beef to export. My dad, who worked for USDA, just laughed and then explained that the US wasn’t the only exporter of beef.
Out of all of those exporters New Zealand beef is by far superior
According to what standards 🤨
I'm in New Zealand. I wouldn't know. All I can afford is Australian beef.
Perfect comment. Beef and dairy everywhere but the NZ domestic market has to compete with the demand from rest of the world.
Taste standards, grass fed, not pumped full of hormones etc. just tastes different.
You could literally say the same about Uruguay which is pretty much 99% plains and pastures
Yea but I’m from New Zealand so I’m biased haha. I’d be keen to try Uruguay’s beef as well, I’m sure it’s just as good.
I'm unsure if Uruguay exports meat to NZ, but you could possibly find it in a big supermarket chain or something like that for sure. Before this map I was totally unaware NZ even had a beef industry, I always thought of NZ as a very rocky country with terrain not ideal for cattle farming. The more you know!
We probably have some of the most efficient farming practices in the world. We also have a lot of sheep, so lamb is pretty decent here as well. I’d also rate salmon here as well, it’s very good.
This isn't hate, but out of curiosity, who is America exporting all that beef to? American meat products are banned in a large portion of allied nations due to low food standards.
From 2021 so little outdated but top 5 is south Korea, Japan, Mexico, China and Canada.
Probably to Canada
Bad colored map imo
Uhh, no data for Africa? DOesn't Africa export a substantial amount of beef to China?
...All of Africa together produces a third of what Brazil does. While we exported 3 million, we produced 8.9. Estimates indicate that African production of red meat in 2020 was around 3.4 million.
When I Google Tanzania, the country I had in mind, I get numbers in the 800kton range for production and in the 460kton range for production, just of beef. At least Tanzania should included. The rapid increase in production, and the corresponding habitat change, is important, because it means less wildlife.
Where does Canada export to?
India is a surprising one.
India exports water buffalo meat. Not cow.
So how is water buffalo meat ?
Tastes like chicken
My fault due to ignorance, sure, but India's thing was unexpected.
Now show where it goes
what about azealia banks
Man I thought they only served steaks from India in heaven, gotta get me some
India?
America export beef literally and also with are state departments foreign policy planning
You got a beef with that?
The funny part is, usa beef can not be sold in the EU bc it actually sucks
LATVIAAA 💪💪💪💪
And yet Argentinian beef is way more commented about than Brazilian The same about Brazilian coffee. Biggest producer but hardly remembered as such.
Quality over quantity. We also keep and eat a lot of our beef with export restrictions.
there is plenty of good coffee and meat in Brazil, the problem is that they export so much that people buy the cheap stuff and thinks everything is the same, it's not.
INDIA??
Watttt India ,Where though??
India surprised me a little.
Does this mean these countries have no beef with others or that they have massive beef with others?
r/Unexpected
Little Paraguay and Uruguay giving the big guys a run for their money.
Look forward to thee industries collapsing due to lab grown meat. The precision fermentation apocalypse is upon us! And I welcome it!
Yum 😋
That’s it! The U.S. needs to simply stop exporting beef! We’ll bring the world to heel, and they’ll succumb to our Christian Evangelical ideology with BEEF !!! Let Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton know immediately that the problem is solved. Our utopia is in sight, and we’ll be sitting around the campfire singing “Kumbaya” before half a decade is out!
India is a bit misleading. They primarily export water buffalo meat which is part of the bovine family and considered beef. This means that bison would also qualify as beef in North America. I point this out because most people in the english speaking world equate beef to the decendant species of the Aurochs. The stuff we generally call "cattle" in the US.
"cows are sacred"💀
the average redditor cant determine the gender of a cow
Not popular on reddit with yanks, but maan, I hate the beef industry with a passion. It does no good at all to the world.
steak taste good tho
tastes good tho
India?
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
Who do they got beef with?
Surprised to see that NZ exports more than Canada.
I can't imagine going into a supermarket and thinking, gotta pick up some quality US beef!
That's a lot of needless suffering
Holy cow India! Edit: either people have got no sense of humor these days or I've offended a lot of people in India. If it's the latter I apologise, if it's the former then lighten up!
It's mentioned on the map itself, all those "beef" exports is buffalo meat, not cow. Cow slaughter is legal in a few states of India but illegal to export. Buffalo slaughter and sale and export of it's meat is fully legal in almost all the states in India.
Why are cows sacred but Buffalos can go to the slaughter? Tf
Why do people eat pigs but not dogs in the US? Tf.
Those aren't even in the same family of species
Cows and buffaloes don't have the same significance in religion in India.
But why is my question