Nepal Dashain festival (sacrificing goats/sheep)

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Unfortunately the mass scale sacrificing in Nepal continues, with tourists

and volunteers considering the ritual as an interesting experience. Recently

a Nepalese tourist magazine even promoted such rituals as a tourist

destination. The Nepalese government and some enterpreneurs seems to be

unaware of the fact that certain tourists actually avoid travelling to Nepal

during Dasain due to the public 'cutting' of thousands of goats, buffaloes,

birds, etc, leaving the streets literally red with blood. I am personally

against publishing gory photos such as these in the media and will request

the author to remove them.

 

On 12 Apr 2007 07:36:02 -0700, dhartig <dhartig wrote:

>

> Hi everybody,

>

> here's an interesting link - from the experiences of a German volunteer to

> Nepal.

> It includes a paragraph about the sacrificing/butchering of goats/sheep.

>

> (IMAGE) " During Dashain festival, every familiy, every house prides itself

> with having a goat

> as special meal. Before butchering it, it usually lives a short while with

> the people

> who were going to eat it. We had a really cute one even with us in the

> home. The

> next day I was up at the rooftop for morning tea ( 6.30 a.m.!), it was no

> more... "

>

> (IMAGE) " The poor creatures were killed everywhere you went "

>

> http://www.kaltenpoth.de/nepal03_volunteer.html

>

> Regards,

> Diana

>

>

>

 

 

 

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