Stop Asia's largest religious animal killing fields

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Dear friends,

 

Can you picture 7,000 young buffaloes being rounded up and killed by a

thousand drunk men carrying large knives? A festival where 200,000 animals

are killed to please a goddess?

 

This is exactly what -if nothing is done- will happen in November 2009 in

Nepal. The Gadimai Festival in Bariyarpur, Bara District, is held each 5

years. The mass sacrifice turns the entire area into a marshy land of blood.

 

 

Animal Welfare Network Nepal wants to end this bloody, cruel practice.

 

*Go to

**http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-gadimai.html*<http://www.gopetition.c\

om/petitions/stop-gadimai.html>

* to sign a petition addressed to the Ministers of Tourism, Agriculture,

Peace and Law and Justice.*

 

For more information about the festival go to

http://animalnepal.org/campaigns_wwc.htm

 

A number of religious groups in Nepal are opposing the mass sacrifice.

Palden Dorje, an upcoming young religious leader, plans to bless the animals

ahead of the event: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-331005

 

For those who can stomach, a documentary can be watched here:

 

http://www.flixya.com/video/2192757/Gadhi_Mai_Mela_Part_1

 

http://www.flixya.com/video/2192758/Gadhi_Mai_Mela_Part_2

 

Please spread to message!

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*Animal Welfare Network Nepal*

www.awnnepal.blogspot.com

 

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Lucia de Vries

Freelance Journalist

Nepal - Netherlands