November 24, 2009
the biggest animal sacrifice in the world
More than 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons will be killed Tuesday and Wednesday at the temple in the jungles of Bara district, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Katmandu, to honor the Hindu goddess Gadhimai.
The slaughtered animals are taken back by devotees to their villages and eaten during a feast.
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Well that’s a downer.
If animals killed end up ultimately as food – I don’t have a problem. However, I suspect that the means of killing was less than agreeable so that’s not nice.
Pondering whether to view the slide show!
The slideshow isn’t very bloody. It’s mostly just suggestive.
Okay, I’m going in.
well, not as bloody as I feared, but, it upset me terribly. Just more shit perpetrated in the name of faith – yeesh!
Let’s see. How many Turkeys are killed during thanksgiving. How many goats are killed on Bakrid.
Good point, Sriram. I don’t eat goats or turkeys. And I had a postcard once that I wish I could find again. It featured a park at the center of some town in Wisconsin (or some nearby state), and the results of the annual fox roundup. Apparently the whole population of the town would get out, form a large circle of beaters around the town, herd all of the foxes into the park–where all the little boys were put to work with clubs to bash the foxes. The postcard shows the jovial crowd looking on with approval as a boy with a club poses, foot resting on a pile of fur and legs and noses. This is the way humans invented evil, in my view. Or at least an indication of how people don’t see evil when they are doing it, but then do when it is turned on them.
[...] Daryl Scroggins: And I had a postcard once that I wish I could find again. It featured a park at the center of some town in Wisconsin (or some nearby state), and the results of the annual fox roundup. Apparently the whole population of the town would get out, form a large circle of beaters around the town, herd all of the foxes into the park–where all the little boys were put to work with clubs to bash the foxes. The postcard shows the jovial crowd looking on with approval as a boy with a club poses, foot resting on a pile of fur and legs and noses. This is the way humans invented evil, in my view. Or at least an indication of how people don’t see evil when they are doing it, but then do when it is turned on them. [...]