Gadhimai Festival: Nepal Mass Animal Sacrifice FestivalGadhimai festival is a month-long Hindu festival that is held once every five years at the Gadhimai temple ofBariyarpur, in Bara District, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the capital Kathmandu in southern Nepal. The event involves the world’s largest sacrifice of animals – including water buffaloes, pigs, goats, cows, chicken and pigeons – with the goal of pleasing Gadhimai, the goddess of power.
These horrible pictures are from the Gadhimai Festival which takes place in Nepal every year and thousands of (around 15000) animals including buffaloes, goats, chickens, pigeons, rabbits are slaughtered from the sake of sacrifice. There have been protest against this mass animal salughtering but despite all the protests the festival and the slaughtering of animals went on in 2009 festival. Around 20, 000 animals were slaughtered including the young ones of the animals.,