Kambala's cruel? PETA says it with pictures

The Kambala season has started in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts after a gap of a year as there was a temporary stay on the game.

Update: 2017-11-12 20:20 GMT
A picture of Kambala released by Peta

Mangaluru: Were the Kambala buffalos beaten and terorrised or not? That’s the big question on everyone’s lips, animal lovers included, after a fresh investigation conducted by animal rights organisation PETA during the first Kambala of the season at Moodabidri on Saturday, allegedly showed the bovines being beaten and their tails pulled.

"This investigation proves once again that buffalo bulls are terrorized in Kambala – no amount of regulation can ever change that, which is why the Supreme Court banned these races in the first place," PETA Public Policy Lead Nikunj Sharma said in a press statement.

The Kambala season has started in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts after a gap of a year as there was a temporary stay on the game. 

Though the state government has passed the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 and received the President’s nod for promulgating the ordinance, PETA recently approached the Apex Court demanding that the ordinance which permits Kambala, be struck down. The case is scheduled to come up for hearing on Monday.

"Armed with new video evidence revealing the cruelty to buffalos during the Kambala on November 11, we will seek a direction from the top court to strike down the government’s ordinance," Nikunj Sharma said.     
    
"The majority of the 100 buffalo bulls which were forced to participate in the race, were beaten and prodded with wooden sticks, and their tails pulled. Some buffalos had marks on their hind quarters, indicating that they had been beaten before the race. Buffalos with bloody wounds, were forced to participate in the race," the statement said. "Many of the buffalos which finished the race, frothed at the mouth and displayed increased respiration rates, demonstrating that racing was extremely hard on their bodies," the statement said, adding that some which were reluctant to participate, were forced to get up and dragged to the starting line. "Many buffalos had two or three tight-fitting 2 to 2.5-centimetre thick nose ropes inserted through their nasal septum, causing them tremendous distress and pain," PETA added.

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