{"id":8495,"date":"2009-11-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/27\/sacrifice-of-250000-animals-in-nepal\/"},"modified":"2009-11-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T12:00:00","slug":"sacrifice-of-250000-animals-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/27\/sacrifice-of-250000-animals-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice of 250,000 Animals In Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/nov\/24\/hindu-sacrifice-gadhimai-festival-nepal\">www.guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEPAL, November 24, 2009: The world&#8217;s biggest animal sacrifice began in Nepal today with the killing of the first of more than 250,000 animals as part of a festival in the village of Bariyapur, near the border with India. The event is held every five years in honour of Gadhimai, a Goddess of power.<\/p>\n<p>With up to a million worshippers on the roads near the festival grounds, this year&#8217;s fair seems more popular than ever, despite vocal protests from animals rights groups who have called for it to be banned. &#8220;It is the traditional way, &#8221; explained 45-year old Manoj Shah, a Nepali driver who has been attending the event since he was six, &#8220;If we want anything, and we come here with an offering to the Goddess, within five years all our dreams will be fulfilled.&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>The dead animals will be sold to companies who will profit from the sale of the meat, bones and hide. Organizers will funnel the proceeds into development of the area.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the event, protesters made a final plea to organizers by cracking open coconuts in a nearby temple as a symbolic sacrifice. &#8220;It is cruel and inhumane. I don&#8217;t think sacrifice has to be part of the Hindu religion,&#8221; said the protest organizer, Pramada Shah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.guardian.co.uk NEPAL, November 24, 2009: The world&#8217;s biggest animal sacrifice began in Nepal today with the killing of the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}