{"id":11742,"date":"2019-12-03T02:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/worlds-largest-ritual-animal-slaughter-goes-ahead-despite-ban"},"modified":"2019-12-03T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T08:41:40","slug":"worlds-largest-ritual-animal-slaughter-goes-ahead-despite-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11742","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s &#8216;largest animal sacrifice&#8217; starts in Nepal after ban ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of buffalo will be slaughtered in Hindu festival despite efforts to end tradition<\/p>\n<p>Hindu worshippers have begun killing thousands of buffalo in what is reputed to be the world\u2019s biggest animal sacrifice, held every five years in a remote corner of Nepal, despite efforts to end the bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>The Gadhimai festival began in the early hours of Tuesday amid tight security, with the ceremonial slaughter of a goat, rat, chicken, pig and a pigeon. A local shaman then offered blood from five points of his body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/worlds-largest-ritual-animal-slaughter-goes-ahead-despite-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of buffalo will be slaughtered in Hindu festival despite efforts to end traditionHindu worshippers have begun killing thousands of buffalo in what is reputed to be the world\u2019s biggest animal sacrifice, held every five years in a remote corner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,516,62,241,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-hinduism","category-india","category-nepal","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742\/revisions\/11752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}