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Rotten Meat Scandal Revives Kashmir's Appetite For Traditional Food

Kashmir Observer

AUGUST 12, 2025 ISSUE

The word “fresh” is suddenly heavy with meaning in Kashmir’s summer markets.

- Irshad Mushtaq

Customers lean closer to sniff cuts of mutton. Butchers are peppered with questions they never used to hear: When was this slaughtered? Where did it come from?

The trigger is the now-infamous “rotten meat scandal,” in which sacks of decomposed mutton were seized from a cold storage in Srinagar.

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