Naga Hoho calls dog meat ban ‘ridiculous’

KOHIMA, JULY 21 (MExN): The Naga Hoho has termed the Nagaland State Cabinet’s decision to ban dog meat, commercial import and trading of dogs in the markets and also sale of both cooked and uncooked as “ridiculous.” 

“Nagaland was never a part of Indian princely states and the history of migration, their customs and tradition and food habit and social life of the Nagas cannot be compared with the people in mainland India and therefore the right for food cannot be taken away by any authority on earth,” a press release from the Naga Hoho stated. 

The Naga Hoho felt that “any directives that come from the Government of India cannot be made into law without proper discussion in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly.” 

“Today it is pertaining to dog meat, tomorrow all forms of alien culture may be imposed on us thereby the sanctity of our existence will be perished if we are unable to protect ourselves from such invasion against the rights of indigenous people,” it stated. 

The Naga Hoho therefore appealed to the State Government to review the order “as Naga people are not going to stop eating dog meat and thereby the law itself will become a mockery.”