Every five years, the month-long Gadhimai festival is held in southern Nepal to honor the Hindu goddess of power, Gadhimai. Approximately 500,000 animals are brutally slaughtered, making this the world's largest sacrifice of animals. Most people think of animal sacrifice as a cold practice that barely exist in the modern world. But the truth is that ritual slaughter is still widespread.The largest and bloodiest to these sacrifices is the Gadhimai festival in Nepal.Over the course of a month half a million animals are killed including water buffalo, bird, lambs and any other creatures unlucky enough to be nearby.This barbaric massacre is said to please the Hindu goddess Gadhimai and takes place in the village of Bariyarpur in Bara District of southern Nepal. People believe these sacrifices will bring them health,luck and prosperity. Outside of the Gadhimai temple, which is the center of the festival, about five million people flock to witness and participate in the mass killings.They consume large quantities of alcohol and in this drunken state they brutally hack and slash the animals.Participants travel from far away with many coming from the Indian states: Uttar Pradesh, Terai and Bihar.They purchased animals in their hometown forcing them to travel for miles toward their impending death. Imagine a young Buffalo purchased at a stall in India and pulled on a short chain for hours on end to reach the festival sight. He is surrounded by thousands of other animal victim, each scared,confused and distraught at the height of this ceremony,his hind legs are slashed so that he falls to the ground,his neck if then sliced over and over again and he lives in agony until his head finally separate from his body. Gadhimai festival happens every five years.In 2014,the horrifying festival is scheduled for November.With your help we are doing everything we can to stop it. You can help end the Gadhimai festival for good, please sign the petition at endthesacrifice.org. Together we can save the lives of hundreds of thousand animals this December and for years to come. Help stop the killing,sign now! Credits: Last chance for Animals (http://endthesacrifice.org/)

• published: 29 Sep 2014
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