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Yes jallikattu is indeed barbaric maybe from your perception, I don't blame it.But for us the people of Tamil Nadu jallikattu (bull fighting) is not merely a sportOrigin:Imagine this scene a few thousand years ago in the Indus Valley region. A group of herders out grazing a few hundred cattle, enjoying the warm sun on their backs with the occasional cry of a calf seeking its mother and the mother guiding it. The whole herd is on the move as the lazy day passes by.Suddenly a bull decides to run astray. With wild animals lurking, there is the danger of the herd breaking up into smaller groups. A young herder emerges and chases the bull. Bulls being males high on testosterone run quite fast and finally the herder catches up with it. He lunges forward and holds onto the hump of the bull. The hump is a unique feature of Bos Indicus cattle. He manages to hold onto the hump, slowing the bull down and finally stopping it. He leads it back to the herd and the group continues, while showering praises on the young herder for catching the bull.Now imagine this scene repeated on a daily basis and the herders sharing the story with the villagers when they pen the cattle for the night. Over time, the skill of embracing the hump to slow the bull down is celebrated and contests are held to showcase the skill. This is called Eru Thazhuvuthalmeaning ‘Embracing a Bull’. Indus Valley civilisation is known for being one of the most advanced and sophisticated amongst its contemporaries. The sport of Eru Thazhuvathal is celebrated so much that they decide to make a seal depicting the same.During the rule of the Nayak kings, gold coins, wrapped in a piece of cloth were tied to the horns, and the tackler hung on to the hump of the bull and untied the knot to get at the prize. Jalli/salli means ‘coins’, and kattu is ‘tied’. A small bag of coins was tied to the horns of the bulls, which the players claimed as a prize. The only way you could do that was to embrace the hump of the bull long enough to grab the bag without getting hit.All classes of people and all castes take part in Jallikattu. There is an egalitarian perspective where it’s humans and their cattle, nothing more nothing less.An ancient heritage that survived colonial periodJallikattu is an ancient sport. The seals of the Indus Valley civilisation depict it, which is proof that this sport was in vogue 5,000 years ago. Ancient Tamil poetry, known as Sangam literature (2nd BCE – 2nd CE), has many detailed references to Eru Thazhuvuthal (hugging the bull).The fact that English colonial administrators have also written about jallikattu tells us the sport was played continuously down the ages.For the following account of the jellikattu or bull-baiting, which is practiced by the Maravans, I am indebted to a note by Mr. J. H. Nelson. “This,” he writes, “is a game worthy of a bold and free people, and it is to be regretted that certain Collectors (District Magistrates) should have discouraged it under the idea that it was somewhat dangerous.UNTOLD STORY:Native breeds as a factorThere were 130 or so cattle breeds in India 100 years ago and now there are only 37. Unless we engage with the traditional livestock keepers and support them, we will lose these breeds as well as lay the ground for commercial cattle based dairies and slaughter houses to dominate the countryTamil Nadu had six cattle breeds earlier and now we have lost the Alambadi breed. The remaining breeds are Kangayam, Pulikulam, Umbalachery, Barugur and Malai Maadu. There are a few more minor breeds without proper documentation or care. Most of these are on the verge of extinction. Each breed has evolved in perfect harmony with its local region. Kangayams fed on grasses in the calcium rich soil are the sturdiest animals and can pull up to 2.5 times their body weight with ease. Umbalacherys have shorter legs which make it easy for them to walk around in the water filled fields of the delta region. Barugurs in the hills of Erode district and Malai Maadus in Theni district are grazed in reserve forests and are adept at walking around in hilly terrain. The Pulikulam, found mostly in the region around Madurai, Sivaganga, Ramnad, Pudukottai and parts of Tiruchi district are herded in several hundreds and walk all day grazing before being penned for the night.Native cattle have evolved over millennia, adapting to the local environmental conditions. They are an integral part of farming, especially for small and marginal farmers as they serve multiple purposes like ploughing, transportation, source for farmyard manure, organic treatments like panchagavya, jeevamritham, and as a source of A2 milk. The native cattle are both an input as well as insurance to the livestock keepers. In ancient Tamil and Sanskrit literature, cattle is considered as wealth. Cattle were measured as a unit of wealth. In the Tirukkural, education is considered to be wealth and the word used for wealth is madu, meaning cattle. So it has a socio-cultural connotation which denotes lives and livestock having co-existed and cultures having coined usages around them.The Pulikulam is a semi-domesticated breed. The bulls are known to attack anyone except their owners. They are mainly grazed in reserve forest lands. Herders need to be able to tame them without ropes as the nose ropes are removed while grazing.How does one tame a bull without ropes? If you try to tackle it from the front, it will toss you with its horns; if you try to catch it from the back, it will kick with its legs. It’s also very agile and can turn around in a split second. The only option is to approach it from the side and grab the hump.Why Jallikattu mattersStud bulls are reared by people for jallikattu. The ones that win are much in demand for servicing the cows. Small farmers cannot afford to keep stud bulls, so each village has a common temple bull which services the cows of the village. Jallikattu is the show where bulls are brought and exhibited. The ones which are most agile (and virile) are preferred by farmers. The calves from such bulls are in demand.The intricate connect between these events and farming can be seen from the chronological order in which showcase events like jallikattu happen first, then the shandies and then the main farming season starts. Once harvest is done, farmers take their bulls to participate in such events over the next few months; spectators and visitors make a note of the top bulls and seek them out in sandhais (cattle shandies/markets) which happen from December till April all over Tamil Nadu. The calves and bulls are bought for jallikattu and some of their offspring will be castrated and used as draught animals in transport/farming.Native cows do not yield as much milk as the imported breeds. So they don’t have a supportive or sponsored breeding programme. Artificial means are not adopted for native breeds. So as a fall out of the banning of jallikattu, they will soon fade away and become extinct.Death of a temple bull covers the village in a pall of gloom. The funeral is conducted with utmost respect with women mourning and village priests carrying out rituals.Under article 48 of the constitution of India the state has to endeavour to preserve and improve the breeds and prevent slaughter of cows and calves and other draught and milk cattle. Hence the Union government has to intervene in this issue.According to principles 1, 2 & 3 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to which India is a signatory state, livestock keepers are creators of breeds and custodians of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture; livestock keepers and the sustainable use of traditional breeds are dependent on the conservation of their respective ecosystems; traditional breeds represent collective property, they are the products of indigenous knowledge and the cultural expression of livestock keepers.Why is there so much opposition to jallikattu?There are two angles to the opposition.First is the urban disconnect with rural India and all that it entails. Policies are made by city folk. Just as we destroyed the lakes of Chennai and suffered the consequences of ignoring the traditional knowledge of villagers in building and maintaining water bodies, we are allowing the same urban mindset to get away with rampant destruction of our livestock and farming. If we look at media reports over the last decade or so, every headline screams about injuries in a jallikattu event. The focus of the urban editors and reporters has always been on sensationalising news and grabbing eyeballs. Fed with this constant diet over a decade, it’s no surprise that so many internet warriors are shouting about jallikattu.In a year, there are 10,000 instances of a bull leaving the vaadi vaasal (gate) during jallikattu. Of the thousands of players who take part, hardly 50-100 get injured in a year, and deaths are much much less.The second group is the dairy lobby, which wants all native breeds to be eradicated. Events like jallikattu throw a spanner in their plans of creating commercial dairy farms with imported breeds just like in the West.Beef exporters also benefit from a ban on jallikattu and other events. Farmers bring their cattle to be sold in weekly/monthly and annual shandies. Brokers will take the cattle from the farmers and hold them to be displayed to prospective buyers. Buyers fall into 3-4 categories: (1) The jallikattu enthusiast who will buy the bulls and male calves mostly; (2) Buyers of oxen for farming/transport; (3) Buyers of cows for breeding and household usage; (4) Beef traders who are mostly if not all agents of export companies and slaughter houses based in Kerala. They buy all cattle as they are only interested in meat.When a ban on jallikattu is in place, the simple supply-demand equation gets skewed. There are no takers in the first category, which means the bulls will only sought by the fourth category i.e. beef traders. With no demand from jallikattu enthusiasts, the price of such prized bulls falls to rock bottom. By killing the market for bulls to be used in jallikattu, the animal rights activists are directly responsible for sending them to slaughter. There is a huge demand for Bos Indicusvariety beef in the Gulf, Malaysia and Western countries. It is considered an exotic and healthy meat, just like country chicken.Misconceptions aboundThe fist misconception is that jallikattu has anything in common with the Spanish bullfight. The two are very different. The sport in India is not about baiting or injuring the bull but of “embracing the bull”.Does it harm the bull?It is said that cruelty is meted out to animals by giving them alcohol, prodding and twisting their tails etc, that organisers beat the bulls, stuffing something pungent in their nostrils, confine them in a dark, suffocating place in order to enrage them.The reality is different. Amidst all the regulations and scrutiny, which bull owner will risk giving alcohol to the bulls? Glucose water is given to them for stamina. Out of the 10,000 instances of bulls let out a year, the anti-jallikattu activists have produced images/videos of may be 7-8 bulls where an offence might have taken place. They have the power to identify the owner and take action against him under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. Each bull is registered with the authorities, with photographs as well as the owner’s information.Every rule has an exception. We regulate to curtail the exceptions, but not to end the sport. The approach of the activists from day one has been to end jallikattu at any cost.Are there other means of conserving the breeds?Each breed has evolved over several millennia and in a distinct way. One method of breed conservation will not work in another area, with another breed. Every place in the world where indigenous people have lived with their livestock, there are celebratory showcase events post-harvest like kambala buffalo water racing in the Dakshin Kannada region, Ongole stone pulling in central and coastal Andhra, rekla races in western Tamil Nadu and Theni, bailgada in Maharashtra with the Killari breed. Each event has evolved locally and has stood the test of time. In-situ conservation is the best method for conserving any breed. The lifetime and health of the species is extended only due to such events.A ban will be fatalUnder the Convention on Biological Diversity and heritage status practices worldwide, it is customary that these ancient traditional practices are left as they are but with rules to organise and regulate them.If jallikattu is banned, livestock keepers will be forced to abandon the raising of native livestock, which already stands threatened due to the extensive use of motor pumps, tractors and mechanised agriculture. If the sport is banned, it would be the death knell of native cattle species in Tamil Nadu.We will not only lose our breeds but also our self-sufficiency in milk production as well as promotion of organic farming. If we lose our breeds and import foreign breeds, multinational commercial companies will dominate the dairy industry in India. The livelihood of millions in rural India is at stake here.People who want a ban on jallikattu are far removed from village life and do not know how this chain works.The Supreme Court and the Government of India needs to look at the big picture behind jallikattu. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) supports traditional practices to keep the chain intact and thus enable conservation of native breeds. As an ancient nation with an ancient practice going back millennia, jallikattu should be preserved. There is no torture of any animal of any sort that takes place during the sport and the evidence of this can be seen from live media telecasts. The time a bull spends engaged in the sport is less than 30 seconds. If required, rules can be implemented to enhance the safety of the animals and men if required.India has already lost many cattle breeds and it can’t afford to lose any more.Source : wire.in

Because we generally seem to believe that intelligence in an animal makes that animal more like "us" and therefore we empathize with it more. If you ask a person why they believe humans are more deserving of life than other animals, the fact that humans are more intelligent in my experience, tends to be a common argument. We're more intelligent therefore we can do more, therefore we are more valuable.I don't know if that is really true because few people, in that light, would find it okay to kill off unintelligent people, or unproductive people.But typically, it seems the more than an animal resembles us in some way, through body language, communication or intelligence, we find it easier to empathize with them.Take a dog for instance. The bond shared between humans and dogs has been shown similar to a bond between an infant and child. Our bond is so strong that we can replace a dog's companionship with other dogs.Dogs' Need For Human Companion Similar to Children Needing Parents Dogs have evolved over time to be able to understand our emotions.Your Dog Can Tell From Your Voice If You're Happy or SadOur bond is strong there and we as a result, are often appalled at the idea of a dog being treated badly, being abused or in some cultures, being eaten as meat.There's a reason for that, our bond is linked pretty strongly and we can both empathize with each other. We often feel that we can connect with dogs on some level, even by just looking into their eyes.Now take a fish:Doesn't really inspire the same empathy. That's why people who keep dogs as pets are more likely to be horrified that dogs are consumed for meat in some parts of the world, while still sitting down for a plate of salmon.Many people also, for instance, would be horrified if they learned that the animal on their plate had been skinned alive before it was killed for food. What type of monster would skin a sentient being alive?Well, that's how fish are routinely killed in the meat industry. Their skin is sliced off and then they are slaughtered. The idea behind is that fish don't feel pain like humans do, therefore they're fine. But a bit more research has come out showing that this may not actually be the case:Fish experience agony in the same way as humanshttp://animalstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1069&context=animsentUnderwater Suffering: Do Fish Feel Pain?This also applies to our friend, the lobster:For a while now it has been standard practice that when you want to eat lobster, you merely toss it into a pot of boiling water and it will die eventually. The logic behind it of course was that lobsters don't feel pain and thus it's fine. Some people were disturbed by this logic because they found that when they placed their lobster into boiling water it would make screaming sounds. No, no, people maintained. The lobsters don't feel a thing.Well, new research has indicated that they may indeed, be feeling pain. In short, we're still not really sure if they are experiencing pain, yet we've continued the same process of chucking them in boiling water anyways based off the premise that it might not hurt.There is no test or dividing line that researchers generally agree on that allows them distinguish between "pain" and "no pain." It's difficult even in humans to determine is someone is in pain.Do crustaceans feel pain when we boil them?Who, What, Why: Do crabs feel pain? - BBC NewsCrustaceans also display pain avoiding behaviors like limping and respond to pain killers.Empathy asks us to relate to others on some level and put ourselves in their shoes. But we know that animals may experience things differently than us and our assumptions across time have appeared to be linked to what was most convenient for us to believe.Another point of contention has been around the tendency for the meat industry to separate baby calves from their mothers very early after birth. People maintained that this was perfectly fine because frankly, cows don't care. Well, not so fast.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150428081801.htmSeparating Calves From Dairy Cows Causes Problems We Didnt Even Know AboutWe largely assumed the same thing about baby elephants as well until we realized that baby elephants do indeed mourn when separated from their mothers in the circus industry.In reality, elephant mothers have been shown to be pretty attentive parents:It's Time to Accept That Elephants, Like Us, Are Empathetic BeingsDogs and cats serve helpful purposes, therefore it is easier for us to see them as sentient, conscious beings worthy of our love and respect. Other animals, where it's convenient for us to kill, eat, or hunt them are largely considered to be either stupid or dangerous or otherwise negligible.Another sad case is what happened to the wolves. Wolves were largely treated as evil and predatory beasts who were seen as almost being mindless killers. They were hunted into extinction in some areas of North America. The documentary, Living with Wolves, captured the experiences of Jim and Jamie Dutcher who abandoned everything to live in the wilderness with a pack of wolves for six years to observe their behavior among the pack. They dispelled a lot of the common myths about wolves and wolf behavior to show them to be intelligent creatures who bonded closely in family units with one another and grieved the loss of one of their own.We began re-introducing wolves to areas in Yellowstone and saw that they helped improve the eco-system. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before farmers began to complain about the wolves and they re-introduced hunting after President Obama took wolves off the endangered species list. Areas where wolves could once roam safely have been taken away. We as humans put up our own invisible boundaries where hunting wolves is legal and illegal and wolves as a result have unknowingly entered territories and been hunted, often at alarming rates that have startled researchers.Death of Yellowstone's Most Famous Wolf Is a Troubling Sign of Things to ComeThis caused controversy after Yellowstone's most famous wolf, an alpha female, wandered into the wrong territory and was shot and killed. She's pictured below.We have found a way for Ranchers to protect their livestock and not have to worry about wolves and it has been shown beneficial to the ranchers themselves by reducing stress in their livestock. But it requires a more hands-on ranching approach that has not been used in the past and because of this, ranchers are against it and prefer to merely hunt the wolves.Getting Ranchers to Tolerate Wolves—Before It's Too LateWe largely see animals as it is convenient for us to see them. These animals over here are for food and are dumb, stupid and emotionless.These animals over here are for fishing and food and therefore don't feel pain, aren't sentient and are really fun to catch.These animals over here are for hunting and are mindless, killing beasts with a never-ending thirst for blood.These animals over here are for pet ownership and are intelligent, friendly, sentient and loving.And these animals over here are entertaining to watch.We as humans often fail to empathize with animals it doesn't serve us a purpose to empathize with. One of the biggest indications of whether we empathize with a specific animal can be measured in how tasty it is to eat.