‘Goa Stray Cattle Turning Carnivore’ Says BJP Minister Michael Lobo
Panaji: Stray cattle in Goa’s tourism savvy coastal belt, which includes popular beach villages like Calangute and Candolim, have “turned non-vegetarian” and only eat scraps of chicken and fried fish, claims the state’s Garbage Management Minister Michael Lobo.
Lobo, who is a BJP MLA from Calangute Assembly constituency, also said that 76 stray cattle from Calangute village, impounded and relocated to a gaushala, were refusing to have fodder and those specialist veterinarians had been roped in to wean them off their meat fetish. “We have lifted 76 cattle from Calangute and taken them to the gaushala run by the Gomantak Gosevak Mahasangh in Mayem village, where they are being well looked after. We always say cattle are vegetarian. But cattle from Calangute have turned non-vegetarian and do not eat grass, gram or the special cattle feed given to them,” Lobo said, on the sidelines of a village function in Arpora village in North Goa on Saturday. “The cattle from Calangute and Candolim are used to eating leftover chicken scraps, stale fried fish from restaurants. Earlier they would smell meat and move on, but due to consumption of meat, now they prefer only meat,” he said. “Specialist veterinarians have been roped in by the gaushala to medically treat the cattle. (IANS)