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12/05/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.968-12/5/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Death and the goddess: The world's biggest ritual slaughter
Are gods really happy with animal sacrifices? An estimated up to 10,000 buffalos and 150,000 goats are offered to Gadhimai, the goddess of power, during this year’s Hindu ritual in Nepal. Those poor animals are slaughtered by special knives by 400 experts who are licensed hack those sacrificed animals during the two-day event. Some of these animals have been imported from India, on foot without food. By the time such scape-buffalos and scapegoats are gathered to the slaughter place, they are nearly dead. It was even worse in the last event in 2009 where more than 20,000 buffalos and 200,000 goats were sacrificed.
The government is afraid of stopping such practice as nearly 80 percent of the citizens are Hindus in the country. Animal rights activists have been advocating this massive animal killing event and successfully have reduced the number of the animals being killed this year. However, it seems like a long way to either abandon this practice or replace animals with farm produces.
Enjoy reading and learning about this unthinkable animal slaughter even for the goddess.

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