{"id":235164,"date":"2023-03-30T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235164"},"modified":"2023-03-30T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:13:13","slug":"centre-lays-down-policy-on-cattle-dehorning-and-castration-as-per-animal-cruelty-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-lays-down-policy-on-cattle-dehorning-and-castration-as-per-animal-cruelty-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre lays down policy on cattle dehorning and castration as per animal cruelty Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cCentre lays down policy on cattle dehorning & castration 63 years after implementation of animal cruelty Act\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu on 29th March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Central Government <\/span>has notified the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Animal Husbandry Practices and Procedures) Rules, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rules laid down the procedures for dehorning cattle and castration, branding or nose-roping of any animal.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are Castration and dehorning?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Castration <\/b>is the removal of a male animal\u2019s testicles. This can be done in a non-surgical manner in cattle, sheep, and goats with the use of an elastrator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 In some species, male hormones affect the taste. Those taste effects are generally negative. Castration improves meat quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dehorning\/disbudding<\/b> is the practice of removing an animal\u2019s horns or horn buds, depending on the age of the animal and the stage of horn growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the existing provisions related to <\/b>Dehorning and Castration?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Dehorning and Castration procedures were earlier undefined under Sections 11 and subsection 3 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, which made it difficult to prevent cruelty against animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Section 11 defined the acts that amount to treating animals with cruelty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 But subsection 3 allowed exceptions for animal husbandry procedures, which involve dehorning cattle and castration, branding, and nose roping of animals in a prescribed manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Section 3(c) of the law also offered exceptions in \u201cthe extermination or destruction of any animal under the authority of any law for the time being in force.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key provisions of the <\/b>Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Animal Husbandry Practices and Procedures) Rules, 2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n

All procedures like <\/span>Castration and dehorning <\/span>are to be carried out with the involvement of a registered veterinary practitioner<\/strong>, along with the mandatory use of general and local anesthetics.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rules demand the breeding of naturally hornless cattle<\/strong> over dehorning and using face halters and other humane procedures for nose roping and preventing cold and hot branding on live tissues.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rules prescribe a methodology for euthanasia<\/strong> for ill animals to avoid a painful death.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre lays down policy on cattle dehorning & castration 63 years after implementation of animal cruelty Act\u201d published in The Hindu on 29th March 2023 What is the News? The Central Government has notified the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Animal Husbandry Practices and Procedures) Rules, 2023.… Continue reading Centre lays down policy on cattle dehorning and castration as per animal cruelty Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-235164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704678354},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}