In Tamil Nadu, Police Arrest Men Who Were Killing Crows & Selling The Meat To Chicken Stalls

The shady street delicacy called 'Kaka Biryani' or crow meat Biryani has been around in Tamil Nadu for a long time now.

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In fact, a popular Kollywood movie called Run, starring actor Madhavan alongside Tamil comedian Vivek, has a popular scene where the latter stops by a roadside stall and unconciously eats a plate of the infamous Biryani.

So, for someone who has been grown up in Tamil Nadu, the crow meat business is really not that shocking. More recently, in the city of Rameswaram, two people have been arrested for selling crow meat to street-side stalls under the guise of selling chicken.

According to reports, this shady business was reported by pilgrims of a local temple who noticed that crows kept dying when they were fed the rice that devotees offer at the temple.

After investigation, it was found that crows in the area were being fed liquor-laced rice by poachers and stuffed in a sack until they became completely unconscious.

The men were selling the crow meat as a cheap replacement for roadside eateries and Police are now tracking down stalls that sold the meat.

According to the cops, the stalls mix the crow meat with that of chicken before selling it to roadside eateries.

This is not the first chicken meat has been replaced with a cheaper alternative, back in 2016, the Chennai police and animal rights activists busted roadside eateries in the city for kidnapping and killing pet cats for their meat to use in biryani - cat biryani.

When the People for Animals (PfA) rescued 16 cats they were in a deplorable condition, some infested with maggots and all of them suffering from dehydration.Cat meat is considered a delicacy among gipsies called the Narikurava community in Tamil Nadu. Animal activists raided a Narikurawa wedding where around 20 cats were slaughtered for cooking cat biriyani.