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Still exist, cruelty against the animal !!

by | 18-11-2014 14:19



        Nepal is the county of four castes and 36 sub castes, with diversified religion and culture. Nepalese people have their own religion, caste prevalent in their  society. Gadamai festival is the month long hindu festival ,that is being celebrated in the duration of every five year at the gadimai temple of Bara district. The event involve the world second largest animal sacrificial slaughter. Thousands of devotees from the India and Nepal visit this festival. The collective spirit embodied in the Nepalese society through generation believe that  animal sacrifice in the goddess gadimai will end the evil and bring prosperity.

        The festival has been like a fair with the animals sacrifice  as a main source of attraction. Many animals like pigeon, goat, duck, swine, male buffalo etc  are being killed in the festival. The ritual killing were performed by more than 200 people in a concrete  slaughterhouse near the temple. Even sometime , there occur the sort age of animal and people in that area urge local people to sell their livestock through radio call and other medium. It has been estimated that 500,000 animals were killed during 2009 festival.

       Besides the animal sacrifice in festival, few human death has been recorded in that festival due to severe cold and chaos. In this era many animal activists, conservationist and many other international organization are giving pressure to stop this kind of cruelty against animal. Unfortunately, we are being mute in this sense, this year also gadaimai festival has been just started.This year also lots of animal will be killed in the name of ritual and culture. How pathetic is it to say, that every year we are killing those innocent creature in the name of god. Many controversies has been arised in this issue that, there is not this kind of culture written in the hindu book.Nepal government is not taking any initiatives stop it.

         This festival includes not  only killing the animals but also have various pollution to the environment. Severe disease may occur due to unmanaged animal sacrifice in the area. Regarding this festival various petition have been signed to stop animal massacre,still the governemet is mute. Its time to raise voice, many animals activists are heading towards gadimai festival to monitor the event and stop all those sacrifice of animals needlessly.Lets unite for it,its unhumanity !!!