Poultry industry protests over chicken legs import from US

Says US uses pig fat as protein feed, GM corn & soya as bird feed, which are not permitted in India

The Rs 50,000 crore Indian poultry industry has strongly opposed the government's move to allow import of chicken legs from the United States after India lost its case in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last year.

In a letter recently written to the Union Ministry of Agriculture, the Poultry Federation of India, the representative body of organised and unorganised sector poultry farmers, has warned the government that the use of pig fat as a feed by US farmers could create religious disharmony in India.

"We have written a letter to the government highlighting use of pig fat by chicken farmers in the