But drone videos show––again––that the body count was vastly lower than is often claimed BARIYARPUR, Nepal––More animals were slain at the 2019 Gadhi Mai sacrificial massacre in Bariyarpur, Nepal, than in 2014––a deeply disappointing discovery, after 15 years of international efforts to stop the every-five-years bloodbath held in honor of a local goddess. Drone video […]
Supreme Court of Nepal orders end to Gadhi Mai massacre
Government directed to “halt the inhuman act of slaughtering animals at Gadhi Mai” KATHMANDU, Nepal––Supreme Court of Nepal Justices Ishwori Prasad Khatiwada and Anil Kumar Sinha on August 4, 2016 ordered the government of Nepal “to form a special committee and take appropriate measures through it to halt the inhuman act of slaughtering animals at Gadhi […]
Did the Gadhi Mai Temple Trust renege on deal to quit animal sacrifice?
Were leading animal charities scammed? KATHMANDU, Nepal––Could the Humane Society of the U.S., Humane Society International, and leading Indian and Nepalese animal charities all have been scammed by the July 28, 2015 alleged agreement of the Gadhi Mai Temple Trust to discontinue animal sacrifice? Was there some misunderstanding about the nature of the […]
Gadhi Mai sacrifices stopped
HSUS & HSI victory claims omit mention of those who won it KATHMANDU, Nepal––Under pressure of a Supreme Court of Nepal injunction won on November 24, 2014 by the Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center, “We have decided to completely stop the practice of animal sacrifice,” Gadhi Mai Temple Trust secretary Motilal Prasad on […]
Beauty Without Cruelty-India exposes Gadhi Mai scam
PUNE, India––Gullible opponents of the Gadhi Mai mass sacrifice in Nepal have inadvertently helped the priests behind it to scam some of the poorest people in the world, a multi-year investigation by Beauty Without Cruelty India has discovered. Held approximately every five years in Bariyarpur, Nepal, 26 kilometers from the border with Bihar state, India, […]
Gadhi Mai is a state of mind
by Jim Myers Animal Aid Charitable Trust, Udaipur, Rajasthan www.animalaidunlimited.com After spending days and nights traveling in the remote district of Bihar adjacent to Nepal to help intercept the animal traffic to the 2014 Gadhi Mai sacrificial festival, two conditions became apparent that are worth noting and hopefully sharing with the relevant authorities in Bihar […]
The toll from Gadhi Mai 2014: 750 buffalo sacrificed, 1,000 devotees in attendance
Debate about the numbers of buffalo sacrificed at the November 27, 2014 Gadhi Mai sacrificial festival at Bariyarpur, Nepal and the numbers of human participants and sacrificial devotees present should be ended by this drone photo of the corrals where the sacrifices were conducted: the toll was significantly lower than the numbers of cattle […]
Ignoring Thanksgiving massacre, HSUS president Wayne Pacelle denounces animal sacrifice in Nepal
Editorial by Merritt Clifton Denouncing one of the largest animal sacrifices in the world at Thanksgiving 2014 would have been thoroughly appropriate for Humane Society of the U.S. and Humane Society International president Wayne Pacelle––if only he had done it. Any cruelty to animals is worthy of denunciation. The larger and more conspicuous the cruelty, […]
Supreme Court of India ruling covers tracks on Gadhi Mai sacrifice
DELHI––Did a two-justice bench from the Supreme Court of India on October 17, 2014 strike a mighty blow against animal sacrifices at the Gadhi Mai festival, to be held in the village of Bariyarpur, Nepal, on November 28-29, 2014? Or did the Supreme Court justices just hand the government of India and a coalition of […]