Hindu Group Urges Reserve Bank Of Australia Not To Use Beef For Printing Notes

The cow politics has been dominating the Indian politics for a while. Now, a Hindu group has urged the Reserve Bank of Australia to print currency notes with no component of beef, citing Hindu sentiments.

Currency notes of Australian dollars of 20 and 100 are being printed currently, and the ¡°Next Generation¡± notes are expected to be issued in 2019 and 2020 and after it was revealed that cow fat is being used in the production of the new notes.

The Hindu community has now come forward and has urged the Reserve Bank Of Australia not to use cow fat in the printing of the notes.

Tallow is a hard and fatty substance made from the animal fat is used in the making of the currency notes in order to make them ¡°anti-static¡± and also to neutralize trace additives.

The Bank of England uses tallow and so does the Reserve Bank of Australia. Rajan Zed, the President of the Universal Society of Hinduism, wrote to the Reserve Bank of Australia to 'show respect to the feelings of Hindus and come up with a banknote production process which did not use beef as an ingredient.'

"Consumption of beef is highly conflicting to Hindu beliefs and it is certainly banned from entering Hindu religious centres. Cow, the seat of many deities, is sacred and has long been venerated in Hinduism," Zed states in the letter.

Zed also urged governor of RBA Philip Lowe to seriously look into the matter and he also urged Australian PM Scott Morrison to intervene.

"RBA should have been wise and literate enough to look into the religious sensitivities of its consumers before investing so much money and effort into the production of polymer banknotes," Zed further added in his letter.