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!?