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Animal Sacrifice Banned at Nepal’s Gadhimai Festival, Half a Million Animals Saved

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on August 1, 2015 at 6:23pm
Animal Sacrifice Banned at Nepal’s Gadhimai Festival, Half a Million Animals Saved New Delhi—In a move that will spare the lives of millions of animals over coming years, animal sacrifice has been cancelled indefinitely at Nepal’s Gadhimai festival, the world’s biggest animal sacrifice event held every five years for around 265 years. The decision announced by the Gadhimai Temple Trust follows rigorous negotiations and campaigning by Animal Welfare Network Nepal and Humane Society International/India. Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/3NDE76

Animal Sacrifice Banned at Nepal’s Gadhimai Festival, Half a Million Animals Saved


New Delhi—In a move that will spare the lives of millions of animals over coming years, animal sacrifice has been cancelled indefinitely at Nepal’s Gadhimai festival, the world’s biggest animal sacrifice event held every five years for around 265 years. The decision announced by the Gadhimai Temple Trust follows rigorous negotiations and campaigning by Animal Welfare Network Nepal and Humane Society International/India.
Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/3NDE76

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