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Nepal's killing fields: FIVE THOUSAND buffalo lie slaughtered at the beginning of Hindu ceremony which sees up to 300,000 animals killed to bring worshippers good luck.
Many people in the West hold the notion that Eastern spirituality,
and even any non-Western sets of belief, are better than Western culture.
Maybe in theory. Not always in practice.
Much evil is perpetrated in the name of religion.
But atheistic countries such as China are also unleashing devastation on nature and cruelty against animals.
The real problem goes beyond cultural differences and religion,
and it lies with human nature itself.
Religious or not, humans are a plague on this planet.
As long as the world human population continues to increase out of control,
so do crimes against animals, the environment, and other humans.
And so we'll see more desecration of nature, the murder and torture of trillions of innocent animals, and even the extinction of wonderful creatures such as elephants and tigers.
The worst part is that we're not even ashamed of it, so the victimization of animals is reported only sporadically, while focus on human drama takes priority.
Scientists have come out and said it: Human rates of growth and consumption show all the characteristics of a parasitic outbreak that is destroying life on Earth (see references at end of this article) |
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Report by Sara Malm for MailOnline
A butcher walks with a bloodied blade as he looks for an animal to kill during a mass slaughter to celebrate the start of the Gadhimai festival.
The massacre goes right in front of the herd.
Religious killing: A butcher gets ready to kill a buffalo during a mass slaughter of the animals for the Gadhimai festival inside a walled enclosure in the village of Bariyapur, near the temple of Gadhimai, the goddess of power
'It has been a grand day,' Mangal Chaudhary, head priest at a the Gadhimai temple said. 'The buffalo sacrifice has ended, but we will continue the rituals with goats and other animals for one more day,'
On the first day, worshippers slaughtered more than 6,000 buffaloes, which were coralled into holding pens in the fields, along with at least 100,000 goats and other animals, Chaudhary said.
The festivities will continue on Saturday when at least another 100,000 animals will die in the name of goddess Gadhimai.
More than 80 per cent of Nepal's 27 million people are Hindus, but unlike most of their counterparts in neighbouring India, they frequently sacrifice animals to appease deities during festivals.
Authorities deployed hundreds of police personnel to make sure there were no clashes between activists and the devotees.
'It is a ritual connected with people's faith,' said Yogendra Dulal, an assistant administrator of the Bara district, where the temple is located. 'We can't hurt their sentiments and ban the practice.'
Worshippers believe the animal sacrifice, meant to appease Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power, brings them luck and prosperity.
The ritual began at dawn with a ceremonial 'pancha bali' or the sacrifice of five animals, comprising a rat, a goat, a rooster, a pig and a pigeon.
Although cows are considered sacred by Hindu's, the thousands of animals seen slaughtered in these pictures are buffalo.
Blessing of the weapons: Butchers raise their swords while performing rituals on Thursday night, before the sacrificial ceremony today
Worshippers have spent days sleeping out in the open and offering prayers to the goddess at a temple decked with flowers in preparation
About 6,000 buffaloes were held in an open-air pen prior to being beheaded by butchers using swords and large curved knives. Thousands of goats and chickens will also be sacrificed before the festival ends on Saturday, temple officials said.
The heads of the sacrificed animals will be buried in a huge pit while the animal hides and skin will be sold to traders who have contracted to buy them.
'It is not proper to kill animals in the name of religion,' Uttam Kafle, of rights group Animal Nepal, told Reuters by telephone from the site.
'We are trying to convince the people that they can worship at the shrine peacefully and without being cruel to animals.'
India's Supreme Court recently asked the government to stop the illegal movement of animals into Nepal for the ceremony.
Local government representatives say they cannot ban Hindu's form the slaughter during the festival because it would 'hurt their sentiments'
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THE BIG EXTINCTION
HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS
HAVE DISAPPEARED IN THE LAST 40 YEARS
All this due to human destruction of habitat, poaching, and other practices. Overpopulation has turned humans into a parasitic outbreak that is destroying life on Earth, say scientists
Entomologist Alan A. Berryman defined an outbreak like this:
"From an ecological point of view an outbreak can be defined as an explosive increase in the abundance of a particular species that occurs over a relative short time.
"From this perspective, the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens."
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The numbers support this assertion:
- From our beginning as a species 200,000 years ago until 1804 the population rose to ONE billion.
- Between 1804 to 1927 it rose to TWO billion.
- By 1960 we were THREE billion.
- By 2011 we were SEVEN billions.
- We are adding 70 million people every year.
Nature documentary presenter David Attenborough says:
Humans are a plague on Earth
The Muslim EID festival
Animals are tortured, have their throats slashed, and left to bleed in annual religious ritual.
Australia has banned the export of live cattle to Gaza for this reason.
Read more
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/moscow-bans-muslim-eid-al-adha-animal.html
Articles about cruelty against animals
I have over a hundred articles on a blog that is not even two years old. They go from inhumane practices in the raising and slaughter of food animals, to the mass slaughter of whales and dolphins, to the Asian practice of skinning and boiling dogs and cats alive, because they taste better that way. Humans have brought nothing but suffering to other creatures, and environmental destruction to this planet.
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