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Big Thumbs up to this decision taken by the centreCentre set to allow bullock-cart races
- PTI, New Delhi
|- Updated: Dec 28, 2015 19:37 IST
The Centre is set to allow popular bull-taming sport Jallikattu and a few other bullock-cart races in 2016, with environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday saying that the government would let such cultural practices continue while ensuring that animals were not subjected to cruelty. (HT Photo)
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The Centre is set to allow popular bull-taming sport Jallikattu and a few other bullock-cart races in 2016, with environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday saying that the government would let such cultural practices continue while ensuring that animals were not subjected to cruelty.
“Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, bullock-cart races in Maharashtra, Kambala in Karnataka and some sort of race using bullocks in Punjab have been traditionally and culturally practiced for centuries. We want to respect that but also ensure that there should be no cruelty. Therefore, we will give you good news in the next couple of days. The government is positive on the issue,” Javadekar told reporters.
These events involving animals will be permitted to continue “for some time,” he said, responding to a question about these sports.
Sources, however, said the government was likely to issue an executive order in this regard on January 1, adding that the environment ministry had consulted Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on the issue.
Jallikattu, also known as Eruthazhuvuthal, is a bull-taming sport played in Tamil Nadu as a part of the Pongal celebrations.
The Supreme Court had banned using bulls for Jallikattu events or bullock-cart races across the country and directed governments and the Animal Welfare Board of India to take steps to prevent the infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering on animals.
In view of the SC ban, bullock-cart races were not part of the 2015 edition of the Kila Raipur games, better known as the ‘Rural Olympics’, held in Ludhiana district in January-February.
The ban on Jallikattu has dampened Pongal festivities in the state, especially in southern districts where it has been a popular event for centuries, and there have been demands for facilitating its conduct.
Javadekar had earlier hinted that the Centre would consider taking steps, including amending laws to allow the sport.
@vayuputhra
The problem with all these animal rights activists & "intellectuals" (especially when it comes to India) is that they fail to understand the significance & importance of animals in many local traditions,festivals & culture. & add to that their lack of research. (which is obvious as the ban on Jallikattu actually carries out more harm to the bulls than saving them).
They seek to impose their Western influenced "superior" way of thinking & understanding upon Indian traditions which they fail to comprehend.
Jallikattu Bulls are well taken care of(in most cases) & are not oppressed or suffering or far from living the terrible live that cattle in the USA bred for their meat are living.(as many PETA guys would like to believe) or the chickens that people eat..
[By the way, has Selvakattu also been banned?
Madras high court suggests ban on cockfights, denies permission to hold the event at temple near Madurai - The Times of India
On the contrary, getting rid of Jallikattu would harm them the same bulls heavily whom they seek to "protect".
@Maravan anna Thanks for posting those beautiful pics
Anna please don't forget to tag me too .Yeah. Alanganallur Jallikattu will be telecasted live. Will tag u if someone starts a thread or do it myself
EDIT:- I wonder Why were only Bull races banned were banned by the SC?? Why Not Horse Races which take place in those big fancy,elite clubs ??
Do horse owners show the same amount of love & affection to their bulls as Bull owners show(as you can see in the above pics)?
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& lastly I will post an article here from a blog . Please read it. Am tagging my friends here as the #IdeaofIndia gang too has a role in such bans. @magudi @Tridibans @Nair saab
Next : Sevalkattu (Cock fights) ban on doubtful reasoning | Reality Check India
The Jallikattu judgment was the culmination of ignorant posh activism by PETA India , followed up by muddled often conflicting arguments from AWBI and Jairam Ramesh. Now, Hindu villagers in southern Tamilnadu and their beloved bulls are in for dark days while the state has prepared a review petition.
Image credit : Reuters (D.Siddique) Left/India Today right.
Today, we see the same pattern repeated with the Madras HC effectively banning Sevalkattu (Seval = Rooster in Tamil) – an ancient cock fighting game, prevalent in southern Tamilnadu, Karur, and Salem districts.
A petition filed by one S. Kanan on April 4th plead the holding of cock fighting in the Arulmigu Muniyandi Temple in Virattipathu.
The petitioner requested permission for the event in the local Muniyandi temple, which was denied by a Division bench of the Madras High Court. The logic is identical to that of the Jallikattu ban. Sample this:
Right to exist at par with human beings is conferred upon animals through legislation. When the rights of animals are infringed, it is only through human intervention that such rights could be extended to them. It was such a case where judiciary was fit to intervene for “poor animals which could not plead and initiate action by themselves.”
The court said, “After all, we human beings are also one of the creatures of God along with other living creatures in the world. Though man is considered to be the supreme form of God’s Creature, whether the supreme creature has got any right to injure intentionally, torture deliberately, cause pain and mental torture make the birds to fight unnecessarily? Certainly not”.
The basic argument is that a Speciesism standard be applied to interaction with animals. I have explained why this is approach is untenable in the Jallikattu blog. The reason this is unsustainable is worth repeating.
If animals have same rights as man, then the doctrine of necessity should also be the same as that for man. Today, one man can legally kill another man only in self defence. And that must be the same rule for animals.
In both the Jallikattu and the Cock Fighting cases, the Speciesism standard is mixed with an inconsistent reading of the Doctrine of Necessity that includes slaughter and pre-slaughter conduct – such as transportation and preparation for slaughter. It is bizarre because an exact analogy would disallow one human from chaining another, except if the final purpose of the chaining is murder ! You have to drop species-ism for this to make sense.
Sevalkattu
There is plenty of online material for you to research on Google. I just want to quickly state some key points here.
- The Sevalkattu rooster is an exotic type of fowl ; there are about 6-10 different varieties which have an immediate danger of extinction pursuant to this ban.
- Like the Jallikattu bull, the cock is a status symbol. The breeders house them in luxury typically in a large dog kennel. They are fed dry fruits, cashews, and other high nutrition products.
- They are trained for both strength and stamina. Swimming exercises are also given.
- The actual game is usually a deathmatch. The winner takes both the cocks – generally the winning cock is treated medically and recovers. The losing cock ends up as biriyani.
- The well organized ones – restrict the fight to about 1 hour. So there is a possibility of a tie.
- A winning cock is treasured and used for breeding and usually lives out its natural life of about 10 years.
- The interaction between the trainers and the animals are typically Indian Hindu. Urbane recently westernized may not understand how one can be intimate with many of the cocks being assigned names and therefore having an individual personality. You may ask, C’mon now – Is this a “necessary” conduct ? Who are you and I to decide? Is burning wood and ghee and rice in smoky polluting Yagnas a necessary conduct ?
Lets turn our attention to the life of the Sevalkattu roosters cousins.
The life of a broiler chicken
Have you wondered why the meat is called “chicken” in stores and not “hens and roosters” ?
That is because the broiler chicken you eat is actually an immature baby hen/cock. They are only six to eight weeks old. Compared to a Sevalkattu rooster who is probably a 3-4 year old young adult with a good chance of living out his natural life.
- Broilers parent stock introduced by US/UK companies to India
- Designed to be a genetic mutant and unviable bird. Rapid growth with accumulation in thigh and breast
- Debeaked and declawed at birth.
- Confined in tiny cages stacked on top of one another indoors in warehouse like settings for the entirety of their short lives.No room for any natural behaviour including simple pleasure of spreading their wings.
- Rapid growth of fat tissue without bone development – means they cant walk for more than 4-5 steps. Observe this at your local chicken shop this week.
- In India unlike the west, slaughter occurs close to consumer. So they are transported in the most horrendous and unhyeginc conditions. It is a common sight in India to see jam packed chicken lorries parked out in 42-deg sun with stacks of filthy cages. No food no water.
- The last mile is usually on a bicycle hanging upside down, legs broken, and tied up to front and rear. Getting their faces rubbed against the sidewall of tyres.
Since we are pretending that fowls are humans.
Ask if a broiler chicken if he’d like to be a Sevalkattu rooster ?
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one should see how these broiler chicken are handled, they have been modified to make them flightless, inactive birds. If the jallikattu is banned many breeds of bulls will become extinct, and also kambala in Karnataka has also been banned the complaint is that they beat the bulls while racing, these races takes place once a year, these bulls have no work to do except to get pampered with all the goodies, this is the systematic destruction of Hindu culture, and traditions."jamahir" said that bulls are made to jump over fire during sankranthi , what a foolish guy, even I have jumped over the same fire hundred times more than the bulls do, it done as a good omen for their well being, does any farmer wants his lively hood to get hurt, it makes to help these animals to overcome fear of fire, and also helps to get rid of flyes. There is systematic spread of lies and misinformation on this matter, by the way I had my goat meat and chicken kebab just now, we southern hindus love meat, but we prefer slaughtering by swift cut or the Hindu style of ek mar do tukda.
