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End Animal Sacrifice at the Gadhimai Festival

End the sacrifice of animals at Gadhimai

The Gadhimai festival takes place every five years in Nepal, just over the border of India, where hundreds of thousands of animals have been killed as part of a religious sacrifice.

Animal Equality India’s 2019 investigation of the festival reveals scenes of extreme cruelty. Despite international condemnation, this massive animal sacrifice is still continued.

Footage from this years festival shows animals hacked to death with machetes by festival attendees, animals left to die in extreme pain over long periods of time, and terrified animals chased by groups of people wielding other weapons.

We, the undersigned, urge the Nepalese government to act now to stop this mass slaughter of animals and introduce a law banning animal sacrifice in Nepal.

Thank you for standing up for animals!

Your request will be shared with the government of Nepal, urging them to ban the mass slaughter of animals at the Gadhimai festival.

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For the animals,
Sharon Núñez
President
Animal Equality

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GADHIMAI FESTIVAL ANIMAL SACRIFICES

The Gadhimai Festival takes place every five years. In 2014 and 2019 Animal Equality used drones to capture footage of hundreds of animals slaughtered in front of one another.
Animal Equality documented another large sacrifice which took place on 15th January 2020 as a part of the Gadhimai festival.
None of the executioners had any experience in slaughtering animals, and were not able to behead the animals in one attempt.
Pigeons were thrown on the rooftop of the temple to be later slaughtered for their meat.

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