Animal Equality investigation – The massive killing during the 2019 Gadhimai Festival

The largest ritual killing in the world.
The Gati Mai Festival that is held every five years in Nepal took place in
December, 2019.
Animal equality is campaigning tirelessly to put a stop to the animal sacrifice
at the Garima Festival.
It's only thanks to the help of our activists, volunteers,
and supporters in India and worldwide that we can work to end this brutal
massacre forever.
Most of the animals sacrificed at the Denai Festival are forced to walk for
hours, sometimes days.
Others are transported in cramped, suffocating conditions in buses,
trucks, and bicycles.
They suffer this long journey starved of food and water.
Pigeons and chickens are packed into bamboo baskets,
cages and plastic on net bags with no breathing space.
Devotees gather in the evening before the festival to watch the punch belly,
the killing of the first five animals.
This marks the beginning of the sacrifice.
According to reports about 50 devotees were given a license by the Temple
Committee to carry out the sacrifice.
None of these executioners had any experience in slutching animals
and many of them were intoxicated.
One of the executioners we spoke with admitted this
from a headcount of the aerial footage taken by the animal equality's exclusive
drone footage of the be enclosure.
Approximately 3,203 animals were killed this year.
One by one. Each of these beers was hacked to death.
We witnessed how many beers knowing that they were next,
gathered together in corners against the walls in a desperate attempt to save
themselves some of the bigger animals that still had energy left
tried to get away. Desperately,
the killers chased after them pulling their tails and legs to immobilize them.
Many times, the executioners could not behead thes in one attempt.
They tried time and time again until the animals were fully decapitated.
The slaughter of goats by thousands of devotees took place in the
surrounding fields outside the temple.
Animal equality witnessed pigeons being thrown on the rooftop of the temple
to be slaughtered later for their meat.
All these cruelties violate the order of the Supreme Code of Nepal,
which states that cruel, brutal,
and unkind treatment towards animals should not be allowed.
Many devotees were seen setting up their cooking pots in the fields.
The flesh of the wasted animals is salvaged and coed.
Children who witnessed this mass killing of animals were terrified.
Many are seen crying and shaking in fear.
We spoke with some devotees who agreed that animal sacrifice impacts children
negatively and should be a polished animal.
Equality has been working to end this gutai animal sacrifice since
2014. In 2019,
we took our efforts even further,
collecting over 90,000 signatures to ban the killing and holding
protests outside the Nepal Embassy in Spain urging the government of
Nepal to ban animal sacrifice and introducing a law against it
to discourage animal sacrifice. And in keeping with original tradition,
animal equality collaborated with the Red Cross Society of Nepal to
organize a blood donation camp where devotees give their bloods to appease the
DT and save a life instead of killing innocent animals.
Animal equality has also investigated the sacrifice despite several
difficulties obtaining exclusive drone footage so the world can see the
barric cruelty inflicted on the animals. At the Gadi MA Festival
watching this cruel footage, it is easy to get discouraged,
but there is a reason for hope.
While the temple was expecting to slaughter 15,000 beers in 2019,
however, 3,203 beers were killed.
This staggering reduction is due to the global outrage.
We must continue putting pressure to end this sacrifice forever.
Animal equality has worked tirelessly on this campaign.
We strongly believe that we are at the beginning of the end of the garima animal
sacrifice,
but we need your help to end this animal's massacre for good.
These are some of the very few animals which managed to escape the sacrifice.
Only because the timing of the sacrifice was ended.
There was a deadline, and that's the only reason. So there,
there are about 12 animals over here. If you take a look,
there are 12 animals which managed to escape the brutal sacrifice.
Please
Sign our petition today.