Added to this was a sense of injustice meted out by “outsiders”. B Nithish Kumar, a third-year mechanical engineering student at the Chennai Institute of Technology , believes that foreigners have plotted to destroy native cattle breeds in Tamil Nadu.”Why else would they import Jersey cows from another country?” he said, referring to pictures that were circulated on the social networking site Facebook, on Tuesday night.
Though living in Chennai, many were migrants from villages. “I grew up with cattle. I know how people treat them. I don’t need PeTA to tell me otherwise,” said E Jagadeesh.
