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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