Beware, your biriyani may have dog meat

It may be recalled a photo of two persons with a skinned carcass of a dog in Ambur that was circulated on social media, resulted in a scare and led to slumping of biriyani sales in the area a fortnight ago.

Sources revealed that four persons each in Christianpet and Kudibala village across Andhra Pradesh border on the Chittoor highway routinely provided dog meat to shops on both sides of the border.

With mutton sold at Rs 500 a kg, small shops were using this as a way of earning quick money as four kg of dog meat was sold for Rs 100. Getting the animals is not a hard task, given the increasing number of stray dogs on Vellore roads, added sources.

When queried about this, a Food Safety and Standards Authority of India official Dr Venkatesh said that they had not received any such complains.

He also denied the reports as both police and FSSAI had thoroughly checked all slaughter houses in the district following the Whatsapp message.