FESTIVALS OF ANIMAL TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL TRADITIONS!!!
A number of festivals involve animal cruelty, as do other regular traditional and cultural events all over the world. Animal cruelty is often defended because of being part of a tr...adition or culture.
On this page you will find information about some of these events, such as Farra Do Boi, a Brazilian festival where innocent oxen are terrified and tortured for many hours in the most painful ways people can think up, until they finally die in agony.
Other traditions include goats being thrown from a bell tower in Spain, and bulls being tortured to death by youths in South Africa. A number of other cruel festivals and traditions are also outlined.
The festival of Ukweshwama
The festival of Ukweshwama takes place in South Africa. It is a horrific event where youths torment and slaughter a terrified bull. They do this in a prolonged and agonizing way by ripping out the bull's tongue, shoving handfuls of dirt into his mouth so he can barely breathe, gouging out his eyes, and mutilating his genitals.
Sickeningly, his despicable behavior is allowed to continue, despite being against animal cruelty laws, because it is considered exempt from these laws due to the country's "cultural liberty" law.
The Brazilian Festival Farra Do Boi
During this Brazilian festival, the Farra Do Boi, people find fun in chasing terrified oxen, and on catching up with them, inflicting on them the worst, most agonizing torture they can think up. They prolong this over a number of hours so the oxen suffer the maximum agony and terror possible. The oxen are terrified and tortured in the cruelest of ways until they can take no more and succumb to death.
The oxen are chased towards the sea, so if any are not caught and tortured, they run in to the sea and are so terrified of returning to shore that they drown.
One theory is that the people are treating the oxen as if they were Satan, and inflict the punishment on the oxen that they feel Satan deserves. The name of this Brazilian festival, Farra Do Boi, can be loosely translated in to the sickening title "fun with Oxen".
Toro De La Vega - The Lancing Of The Bull
The Toro De La Vega is a cruel and bloody Spanish festival which takes place in the streets of Tordesillas.
A Bull is chased through the streets and over a bridge in the town by in excess of one hundred men and youths armed with sharp lances. Once over the bridge, the animal is attacked by the men thrusting their lances in to him. The Bull tries desperately to get away from this agonising torture, but the poor animal has lances repeatedly plunged in to him until his flesh is torn so badly, and he is bleeding so heavily, that he can eventually go no further.
On his collapse, his testicles are cut off, often while he is still alive. This is all watched by rowdy and cheering crowds. This spectacle in this Spanish festival is considered suitable entertainment for the whole famly, with many parents taking their children. This horrific tradition was illegal for years, but, incredibly, it was again legalised in 1999!
The Gadhimai Festival
The pictures below are from the Gadhimai Festival which takes place every year in Nepal. During the festival around 15000-20000 animals, including buffaloes, goats, chickens, pigeons and rabbits are slaughtered from the sake of religious animal sacrifice. Animals from young to old are all sacrificed while crowds watch and cheer.
This festival of mass animal slaughter has provoked anger among people who are against animal cruelty and protests against the festival have been held. Despite this, the festival continues every year, defended on the grounds of being a religious tradition.
http://blog.knowledge-must.com/archives/29-Gadhimai-Mela-The-Largest-Sacrifice.html
The Pero Palo Festival In Villanueva de la Vera, Spain
Every year, a terrified donkey is violently forced through the streets of the village of Villanueva de la Vera in Spain, surrounded by drunk, rowdy, young men. The men think it is great fun to beat, kick, bite, shove, drag and crush the terrified donkey, as they all laugh as it is done. The animal regularly collapses from exhaustion and fright, only to be forced back to its feet by violence from the mob of drunken men. Guns are fired close to the panicked animal, alcohol is forced down it's throat and it is ridden by the heaviest men in the village.
The ordeal often leaves the donkey badly injured or crushed to death. After this mental and physical torture has finally ended, the shattered and traumatized donkey is forced in to a trailer and taken away to meet an unknown fate.
Animal charity campaigners, who work at the only donkey sanctuary in Spain, were refused when they asked if their vet could check the donkey over after the festival. A member of the charity, Jose Rodriguez Gil, said ""When I tried to film the donkey I was repeatedly threatened. They knew very well that what they were doing was cruel."
Another donkey sanctuary worker commented about how he had been punched, kicked and spat on by the crowd during his attempts to protect the Villanueva donkeys.
A spokesman for Villanueva de la Vera and the region's tourism department said: "We will not bow to pressure from animal welfare activists. This is our tradition and that will continue."
The Tradition In Spain Of Hanging Spanish Galgos
The Galgo is a Spanish Greyhound used by hunters in Spain. It is traditional in Spain at the end of the hunting season for the hunters to cause their dogs a very slow and torturous death, as they do not want to look after them after hunting season. Sadly, this tradition is still very much alive and 50,000 dogs can face these fates in Spain at the end of each hunting season.
Other common methods of the hunters killing their Galgos include throwing them down deep, disused wells that they have no hope of getting out of. There, they starve to death, alone and frightened. This is an unbelievably cruel and drawn out death.
Other hunters beat their dogs to death, shoot them or use any other method that does not cost them money.
Laws must be put in place to protect these defenseless creatures. There is NO hope for a civilized society without animal cruelty laws and the animals have no hope without everyone's help. Everyone in this sociopathic culture must be held accountable for their actions. If we don't start punishing these abusers, they will continue their barbaric treatment of animals.
Source: http://www.animal-rights-action.com/spanish-festivals.html
Other festivals:
Traditional funeral ceremony in kampung Kiku Letena, near Waikabubak, Sumba Island, Indonesia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_E3k8HN8WU&feature=player_detailpage
You can help end the cruelty by sharing the truth about animals’ abuse. If you agree that animals feel, suffer, love and the truth about their abuse should be exposed, please honor our work by “like” our page.
A number of festivals involve animal cruelty, as do other regular traditional and cultural events all over the world. Animal cruelty is often defended because of being part of a tr...adition or culture.
On this page you will find information about some of these events, such as Farra Do Boi, a Brazilian festival where innocent oxen are terrified and tortured for many hours in the most painful ways people can think up, until they finally die in agony.
Other traditions include goats being thrown from a bell tower in Spain, and bulls being tortured to death by youths in South Africa. A number of other cruel festivals and traditions are also outlined.
The festival of Ukweshwama
The festival of Ukweshwama takes place in South Africa. It is a horrific event where youths torment and slaughter a terrified bull. They do this in a prolonged and agonizing way by ripping out the bull's tongue, shoving handfuls of dirt into his mouth so he can barely breathe, gouging out his eyes, and mutilating his genitals.
Sickeningly, his despicable behavior is allowed to continue, despite being against animal cruelty laws, because it is considered exempt from these laws due to the country's "cultural liberty" law.
The Brazilian Festival Farra Do Boi
During this Brazilian festival, the Farra Do Boi, people find fun in chasing terrified oxen, and on catching up with them, inflicting on them the worst, most agonizing torture they can think up. They prolong this over a number of hours so the oxen suffer the maximum agony and terror possible. The oxen are terrified and tortured in the cruelest of ways until they can take no more and succumb to death.
The oxen are chased towards the sea, so if any are not caught and tortured, they run in to the sea and are so terrified of returning to shore that they drown.
One theory is that the people are treating the oxen as if they were Satan, and inflict the punishment on the oxen that they feel Satan deserves. The name of this Brazilian festival, Farra Do Boi, can be loosely translated in to the sickening title "fun with Oxen".
Toro De La Vega - The Lancing Of The Bull
The Toro De La Vega is a cruel and bloody Spanish festival which takes place in the streets of Tordesillas.
A Bull is chased through the streets and over a bridge in the town by in excess of one hundred men and youths armed with sharp lances. Once over the bridge, the animal is attacked by the men thrusting their lances in to him. The Bull tries desperately to get away from this agonising torture, but the poor animal has lances repeatedly plunged in to him until his flesh is torn so badly, and he is bleeding so heavily, that he can eventually go no further.
On his collapse, his testicles are cut off, often while he is still alive. This is all watched by rowdy and cheering crowds. This spectacle in this Spanish festival is considered suitable entertainment for the whole famly, with many parents taking their children. This horrific tradition was illegal for years, but, incredibly, it was again legalised in 1999!
The Gadhimai Festival
The pictures below are from the Gadhimai Festival which takes place every year in Nepal. During the festival around 15000-20000 animals, including buffaloes, goats, chickens, pigeons and rabbits are slaughtered from the sake of religious animal sacrifice. Animals from young to old are all sacrificed while crowds watch and cheer.
This festival of mass animal slaughter has provoked anger among people who are against animal cruelty and protests against the festival have been held. Despite this, the festival continues every year, defended on the grounds of being a religious tradition.
http://blog.knowledge-must.com/archives/29-Gadhimai-Mela-The-Largest-Sacrifice.html
The Pero Palo Festival In Villanueva de la Vera, Spain
Every year, a terrified donkey is violently forced through the streets of the village of Villanueva de la Vera in Spain, surrounded by drunk, rowdy, young men. The men think it is great fun to beat, kick, bite, shove, drag and crush the terrified donkey, as they all laugh as it is done. The animal regularly collapses from exhaustion and fright, only to be forced back to its feet by violence from the mob of drunken men. Guns are fired close to the panicked animal, alcohol is forced down it's throat and it is ridden by the heaviest men in the village.
The ordeal often leaves the donkey badly injured or crushed to death. After this mental and physical torture has finally ended, the shattered and traumatized donkey is forced in to a trailer and taken away to meet an unknown fate.
Animal charity campaigners, who work at the only donkey sanctuary in Spain, were refused when they asked if their vet could check the donkey over after the festival. A member of the charity, Jose Rodriguez Gil, said ""When I tried to film the donkey I was repeatedly threatened. They knew very well that what they were doing was cruel."
Another donkey sanctuary worker commented about how he had been punched, kicked and spat on by the crowd during his attempts to protect the Villanueva donkeys.
A spokesman for Villanueva de la Vera and the region's tourism department said: "We will not bow to pressure from animal welfare activists. This is our tradition and that will continue."
The Tradition In Spain Of Hanging Spanish Galgos
The Galgo is a Spanish Greyhound used by hunters in Spain. It is traditional in Spain at the end of the hunting season for the hunters to cause their dogs a very slow and torturous death, as they do not want to look after them after hunting season. Sadly, this tradition is still very much alive and 50,000 dogs can face these fates in Spain at the end of each hunting season.
Other common methods of the hunters killing their Galgos include throwing them down deep, disused wells that they have no hope of getting out of. There, they starve to death, alone and frightened. This is an unbelievably cruel and drawn out death.
Other hunters beat their dogs to death, shoot them or use any other method that does not cost them money.
Laws must be put in place to protect these defenseless creatures. There is NO hope for a civilized society without animal cruelty laws and the animals have no hope without everyone's help. Everyone in this sociopathic culture must be held accountable for their actions. If we don't start punishing these abusers, they will continue their barbaric treatment of animals.
Source: http://www.animal-rights-action.com/spanish-festivals.html
Other festivals:
Traditional funeral ceremony in kampung Kiku Letena, near Waikabubak, Sumba Island, Indonesia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_E3k8HN8WU&feature=player_detailpage
You can help end the cruelty by sharing the truth about animals’ abuse. If you agree that animals feel, suffer, love and the truth about their abuse should be exposed, please honor our work by “like” our page.
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