Gadhimai Hindu festival: more than 5,000 buffaloes
slaughtered in a day.

The ritual in Nepal has been condemned as
'unparalleled religious madness'
The slaughter of more than 5,000 buffaloes
at the Gadhimai Hindu festival in Nepal
has drawn global condemnation from
animal charities.
Many more buffaloes and farm animals
including chickens, goats and pigs are due
to be killed as part of what is thought to be
the world’s largest animal sacrifice ritual.
Devotees believe the event brings good
luck and will encourage Gadhimai, the
Hindu goddess of power, to answer their
wishes.
Several charities had worked to stop the
slaughter – the first of its kind since an
estimated 200,000 animals and birds were
sacrificed in 2009 – but only succeeded in
pressuring the Indian Government into
stopping animals being transported across
the border.
Joanna Lumley is among the celebrities
opposing the festival and led a protest in
London last month with the charity
Compassion in World Farming.
Joanna Lumley at a Compassion in World
Farming against Gadhimai in London
At a rally outside the Nepalese embassy,
she said: “I love Nepal – both the land and
its people. The Gadhimai animal sacrifice
festival entails horrendous animal
suffering and is a complete anomaly in this
wonderful country.”
The ritual begins before dawn in the fields
outside Gadhimai temple in Bariyarpur,
where a priest trickles his own blood
combined with that of a rat, chicken,
pigeon, goat, and pig.
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Thousands of vehicles packed with families
carrying goats and birds intended for
sacrifice travelled along the road leading to
the temple on Friday.
To end the first day of the event,
thousands of buffaloes were decapitated by
a group of specially chosen men using
curved kukri knives.
A butcher walks with a bloodied blade
as he looks for an animal to kill during a
mass slaughter of buffaloes for the
Gadhimai festival
“The sights and sounds are unimaginable,”
wrote Jayasimha Nuggehalli director of the
Indian branch of the Humane Society
International. “Pools of blood, animals
bellowing in pain and panic, wide-eyed
children looking on, devotees covered in
animal blood, and some people even
drinking blood from the headless but still
warm carcasses.”
Shristi Singh Shrestha, an animal rights
activist with Animal Welfare Network
Nepal, told the Guardian she felt “defeated”
because the group was unable to stop the
slaughter but the number of killed livestock
was falling.
“However, the positive thing is that the
number of animals killed has come down…
we hope there will be no killing of any
animal at the next festival,” she said.
An Italian charity, Partito EcoAnimalista,
called Gadhimai “unparalleled religious
madness”, saying the buffaloes are not
given food or water for several days before
the slaughter to make them docile and
weak.
Peta also launched a petition calling for the
“horrifying display of violence” to be
stopped.
Its letter read: “The frenzied slaughter of
hundreds of thousands of goats, chickens,
buffalo and other animals only tarnishes
Nepal's international reputation. Numerous
animals, already weakened by their long
journeys, die from exhaustion, starvation
or dehydration before the massacre
begins.”
Several Hindu leaders have also argued
that the ritual goes against core religious
beliefs.
Surya Upadhya, chairman of the Nepalese
Hindu Forum in the UK, said: “The
Nepalese Hindu Forum in the UK
completely opposes animal sacrifice as
Hinduism does not sanction the killing of
living beings.
“There should not be any place for this
inhumane, barbaric sacrifice of innocent
animals in the name of any religion”.

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Who go chop all those Bufalo