Five thousand buffalo lie slaughtered at the beginning of Hindu ceremony which sees up to 300,000 animals killed to bring worshippers good luck. They are killed brutally and their bodies are left to rot.
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Tariq’s path to the slaughterhouse was paved with issues concerning his Muslim identity. When his family moved from Queens to Houston, he spent two years in middle school concealing it. “I was so frightened of being called Gandhi that I told everyone I was Jewish,” he says.
“After ten years of struggling with the ethics of raising animals, especially pigs, for slaughter, I decided to quit pig farming for ethical reasons. Stony Brook Farm is now officially closed.”