Nepal to stop slaughter of animals during Gadhimai festival

During the Gadhimai festival in Nepal, lakhs of animals are slaughtered every year by worshippers because such actions ae believed to bring prosperity and wealth. However, Nepal has now taken a decision to ban such inhuman acts and the temple authorities have announced an indefinite ban on this centuries-old Hindu tradition of mass animal slaughter.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 29 July 2015.

This 300 year old festival will go bloodless in its next edition in 2019 – the festival attracts hundreds of thousands of worshippers and more than five lakh animals get slaughtered.
The festival is held once in five years and hordes of devotees from Nepal and India flock to a temple in the Himalayan nation's southern plains where thousands of animals are sacrificed to appeasing the Hindu goddess of power, Gadhimai.
The last festival was held in 2014 and, in spite of the presence of police and a Supreme Court order to check the illegal smuggling of animals from Indian borders, people continued to cross the Bihar border with live cattle. In fact, 70% of the animals are technically smuggled from India.
Animal rights activists have applauded the decision. The campaign to ban this practice had attracted support from foreign celebrities like British actress Joanna Lumley and French movie legend Brigitte Bardot.
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