Meat Banned in India

Apparently, the Uttar Pradesh government made a big “mistake” by banning the sale of meat and the slaughter of animals for over a day. The Supreme Court–issued order was meant to ban the sale of meat for nine days to coincide with Paryushan Parva, a Jain festival, and began on Monday. Policemen enforced the order and shut down restaurants that serve meat and kept slaughterhouses and meat shops from opening on Tuesday morning. The order was withdrawn later on Tuesday—it turns out that the government had misinterpreted the 17-month-old Supreme Court order, and that it was only specific to Gujarat and Rajasthan and not the whole country.