VARANASI, June 12 -- A group of social activists staged a protest against the VNN's decision to shift all city-based meat shops to the outskirts and marched from the Kutchehary intersection to the district magistrate's office. They submitted a memorandum, addressed to the DM, to sub divisional magistrate Shivani Singh, demanding that the decision be withdrawn immediately. The protestors said if this decision is not reconsidered, they will be compelled to take to streets and intensify the agitation. They alleged that shifting shops is a conspiracy to cripple meat trade and snatch livlihood of poor shopkeepers. "This decision, taken without any prior consultation or dialogue, is undemocratic," they claimed....