Forget which got here first, egg or…: Gujarat govt tells HC, ‘rooster is handled as animal beneath regulation’

By PTI

AHMEDABAD: Chicken and different kinds of poultry birds fall within the ‘animal’ class beneath the Food Safety and Standards Act, the Gujarat Government informed the High Court on Friday.

It prompted senior lawyer Percy Kavina, who’s representing rooster retailers which have confronted motion for violation of guidelines, to say that in that case, poultry retailers should have interaction veterinary medical doctors to conform totally with the regulation.

In January, two NGOs filed a PIL within the High Court in search of a ban on provide of poultry birds to meat retailers contending that birds had been illegally slaughtered in these institutions as an alternative of being despatched to slaughterhouses.

The HC then directed the authorities to take motion towards unlicensed meat retailers. Civic our bodies throughout the state raided meat retailers and issued closure notices to a number of of them for violation of guidelines. Several rooster retailers had been additionally shut throughout this drive.

The homeowners of those sealed meat retailers and rooster retailers approached the High Court for aid.

The bench of Justice NV Anjaria and Justice Niral Mehta was listening to these civil purposes.

During the listening to on these purposes on Friday, Government Pleader Manisha Lavkumar mentioned the definition of `animal’ beneath the Act additionally consists of poultry.

Fish is just not included as a result of they aren’t “slaughtered” however solely taken out of the water, the lawyer mentioned.

Advocate Kavina mentioned the inclusion of poultry within the bigger class of meat “goes against age-old practice of how meat has been sold and consumed.” 

When poultry birds are slaughtered in a small hid space discreetly, it shouldn’t be banned, he mentioned.

If rooster is taken into account to be on par with meat, “chicken shop owners need to appoint a veterinarian to do the stamping (as in slaughterhouses),” he mentioned.

“Inclusion of poultry as an animal ignores the way poultry is sold in retail. You are insisting that poultry is meat and therefore it must be checked pre-slaughter and post-slaughter and then it should be stamped. It is impossible for small chicken sellers. He will have to keep a vet there,” mentioned Kavina.

AHMEDABAD: Chicken and different kinds of poultry birds fall within the ‘animal’ class beneath the Food Safety and Standards Act, the Gujarat Government informed the High Court on Friday.

It prompted senior lawyer Percy Kavina, who’s representing rooster retailers which have confronted motion for violation of guidelines, to say that in that case, poultry retailers should have interaction veterinary medical doctors to conform totally with the regulation.

In January, two NGOs filed a PIL within the High Court in search of a ban on provide of poultry birds to meat retailers contending that birds had been illegally slaughtered in these institutions as an alternative of being despatched to slaughterhouses.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

The HC then directed the authorities to take motion towards unlicensed meat retailers. Civic our bodies throughout the state raided meat retailers and issued closure notices to a number of of them for violation of guidelines. Several rooster retailers had been additionally shut throughout this drive.

The homeowners of those sealed meat retailers and rooster retailers approached the High Court for aid.

The bench of Justice NV Anjaria and Justice Niral Mehta was listening to these civil purposes.

During the listening to on these purposes on Friday, Government Pleader Manisha Lavkumar mentioned the definition of `animal’ beneath the Act additionally consists of poultry.

Fish is just not included as a result of they aren’t “slaughtered” however solely taken out of the water, the lawyer mentioned.

Advocate Kavina mentioned the inclusion of poultry within the bigger class of meat “goes against age-old practice of how meat has been sold and consumed.” 

When poultry birds are slaughtered in a small hid space discreetly, it shouldn’t be banned, he mentioned.

If rooster is taken into account to be on par with meat, “chicken shop owners need to appoint a veterinarian to do the stamping (as in slaughterhouses),” he mentioned.

“Inclusion of poultry as an animal ignores the way poultry is sold in retail. You are insisting that poultry is meat and therefore it must be checked pre-slaughter and post-slaughter and then it should be stamped. It is impossible for small chicken sellers. He will have to keep a vet there,” mentioned Kavina.