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From Support to Mockery: Bollywood Calls For Freedom Of Choice Post Beef Ban

From Support to Mockery: Bollywood Calls For Freedom Of Choice Post Beef Ban
An employee selects cuts of Irish rib-eye beef steak as they work on the packaging line at ABP Foods Group's meat processing plant in Cahir, Ireland, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. The U.S., the world's biggest beef consumer, is lifting a ban on imports from Ireland more than 15 years after mad cow disease spurred restrictions of supplies from Europe. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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An employee selects cuts of Irish rib-eye beef steak as they work on the packaging line at ABP Foods Group's meat processing plant in Cahir, Ireland, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. The U.S., the world's biggest beef consumer, is lifting a ban on imports from Ireland more than 15 years after mad cow disease spurred restrictions of supplies from Europe. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Mumbai - Following the Maharashtra government's ban on the sale and possession of beef in the state, Bollywood celebrities like Raveena Tandon, Farhan Akhtar and Ayushmann Khurrana share their thoughts on the "freedom of choice".

Here's what the celebrities posted on their micro-blogging website Twitter handles:

Beef faal baad! #kaminey

— Ayushmann Khurrana (@ayushmannk) March 3, 2015

Basically all Hindus were vegetarian as they respected all living forms on earth and that's how tree worship and animal worship started ...

— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) March 3, 2015

It'd be amazing, if M'tra govt. showed the same urgency in tending to real problems such as water & power, as they have for the #BeefBan

— VISHAL DADLANI (@VishalDadlani) March 3, 2015

So now in Maharashtra you can have a beef with someone but you can't have beef with someone.

— Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) March 3, 2015

I've got a beef with this whole no beef thing.

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) March 3, 2015

Dear Govt. With beef, let's ban teeth. We can live on vegetable smoothies and this way your politicians can't make hate speeches anymore :-)

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) March 3, 2015

Dear Maharashtra Govt, such favouritism! You just lost the entire chicken and goat vote bank.

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) March 3, 2015

Dear Paneer....you may have won the battle........

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) March 3, 2015

Dear Govt, Question: What if the cows want to fall in love with same sex cows? What about a bull saying behench** in a film? Still banned?

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) March 3, 2015

Beef gets banned…on the plus side, less red meat in our diet is a good thing…on the not so plus side…another step towards a theocratic state

— Uday Chopra (@udaychopra) March 3, 2015

No beef. Now no jokes on this please.

— Nimrat Kaur (@NimratOfficial) March 3, 2015

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