Oh this is interesting.  I can see the headlines.  "Peaceloving, docile
vegetarians cause uprising in takeover of civil rights in New Delhi, India".
I wonder how many constitutional issues can be found in this act?  A field
day for lawyers....   LOL.  Oliva

----- Original Message -----
From: "S.B. Feldman, MD" <[log in to unmask]>

> Non-Vegetarians Beef Over Town's Meat Sale Ban NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The
sale
> of meat has been banned in a northern Indian town "to encourage
vegetarianism"

(insert the word, force)

> among its 150,000 inhabitants, a local official said on Tuesday.``The
> municipal corporation imposed a ban on selling meat in the town to promote
> vegetarianism among the masses and spirituality,'' Khuban Devi, chairwoman
of
> the Municipal Corporation of Palwal, told Reuters by phone.``All the meat
> shops in the town are closed.''Meat traders in Palwal, about 70 km (45
miles)
> south of New Delhi, have reacted angrily to the ban and have filed a
petition
> in the local court to quash it.``The ban is completely wrong and false.
You
> cannot take away the employment of hundreds of people just like that,''

(Good grief!  He sees it as an employment issue.)

> Suresh Chutani, a local councilor and a representative of the town's hotel
> federation, told Reuters.Many people in predominantly Hindu India are
> vegetarians, and Hindu groups    *often*  (oh really! ) protest against
the sale of meat
Protest is one thing, blocking a business is another......  I would imagine
that's illegal in India also!?