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Cattle theft is a big problem in India. It might sound silly to most people in west but being a still developing(poor) country with major population still being
by rajeshp1986 4y ago
Cattle theft is a big problem in India. It might sound silly to most people in west but being a still developing(poor) country with major population still being dependent on agriculture, large population owns cattle unlike US/Canada where a small percentage of ranchers are large cattle owners. It is very common for a small family in village to own a couple of cows and a big portion of their wealth is the cattle. Since cattle are not RFID marked a neighbor can easily steal the cows. Police has to regularly deal with such cases in rural India that someones calf is stolen. That poor family was depending on raising that calf or selling the milk for next few years. It is a serious economic setback for them.
- amriksohata 4y ago
- SilasX 4y ago> It is very common for a small family in village to own a couple of cows and a big portion of their wealth is the cattle. Which is actually the historically typical case! (Since the agricultural revolution, anyway.) The word “capital” even traces its meaning to “head of cattle”: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capital#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capital#Etymology
- InitialLastName 4y agoThere's a reason that most of the fines and taxes described in Leviticus are denominated in livestock.
- repiret 4y agoI live in a region of the US that has more cattle than people, and cattle rustling is a thing here too. I think there is no type of property that people won’t try to steal, so wherever there are cattle, there is cattle theft.