For Immediate Release:
22 May 2024
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Mysuru – After learning that a chicken had been sacrificed in Sri Pratyangira Yogeshwari Bhagavati Temple in Yelwala, Mysuru, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India worked with senior Mysuru rural police officials to register a first information report (FIR). The sacrifice was caught on video and carried out in full view of the public. The person performing the sacrifice can be seen torturing the hen by twisting and wringing her neck and ripping her feathers out before slitting her throat and tossing her severed head into the air.
The FIR was registered under sections 3, 5, and 6 of the Karnataka Prevention of Animal Sacrifices Act, 1959, and sections 34 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
“PETA India commends Mysuru police for registering an FIR and sending the message that cruelty to animals will not be tolerated,” says PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Sinchana Subramanyan. “Animal sacrifice is both cruel to animals and dangerous to society, because it desensitises people to violence while reinforcing obsolete beliefs that hinder progress. Just as human sacrifice is now treated as murder, at a time when India is embarking on space missions, the archaic practice of animal sacrifice must end. This step is imperative for our societal evolution.”
The Supreme Court has ruled that animals can be slaughtered only in licensed slaughterhouses and that municipal authorities must ensure compliance with this ruling. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Slaughter House) Rules, 2001, and the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011, permit the slaughter of animals for food only in licensed slaughterhouses equipped with species-specific stunning equipment.
Gujarat, Kerala, Puducherry, and Rajasthan already have laws in place prohibiting the religious sacrifice of any animal in any temple or its precinct. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana prohibit it in any place of public religious worship or adoration or its precinct or in any congregation or procession connected with religious worship on a public street.
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
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