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.”
“One by one they have their roped heads yanked down, their kicking hind legs restrained, and then their heads sliced off with a machete. Others are so exhausted from travelling hundreds of miles to the festival without food or water, that they simply languish even as all around them buffaloes and goats are being decapitated. I have even seen calves trying to nuzzle comfort from the severed heads of their mothers lying on the ground.”
Tell the Nepalese government to end the Gadhimai slaughter.
“Travel has become another exercise in narcissistic presentation, one more way of desperately extracting some semblance of uniqueness out of your otherwise soul-crushingly mediocre existence.”
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what a beautiful man
what a beautiful cow
cuddling together
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