Mass Sacrifice Has Stopped!!

[Catherine]

The Gadhimai Festival!  Yes we have been following this story.  We posted a lot about it leading up to the last festival in 2014.  Because of all the protests it was much smaller than they had planned.

The protests continued after the festival with the view to making 2014 the last time it ever happened.  A lot of people did a lot of work to make this happen.

I think Gadhimai is a turning point for animal rights protestors. It is a centuries old, traditional massacre of animals and it has been stopped. If Gadhimai can stop then so can all the other horrible events that involve the brutal killing of animals.

In the same way Cecil the lion is a turning point. People are now horrified by trophy hunters and repulsed by their actions.

It is important to keep posting and talking about these things.  When tradition and long standing practice are used as an excuse for animal cruelty we can point to Gadhimai and say it changed so other traditions can change.

If it is wrong, it doesn't matter how long it has been going on, it is still wrong.