Bengaluru, Jul 5: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has criticised the Presidential assent to a bill supporting Kambala, the buffalo racing sport popular in coastal Karnataka.
Kambala, along with Jallikatu, was banned according to the Supreme Court judgement for being too cruel to animals. PETA has also said that it will challenge in the court the Karnataka law allowing Kambala.
“At a time when the rest of the world is banning bullfights, the use of animals in circuses and other cruelty to animals for so-called entertainment—India is moving backwards, embracing once western concepts like abuse of cattle through the legalisation of cruelty to bulls through spectacles like Kambala and Jallikattu.
PETA is committed to helping spare buffaloes and other bulls from this cruelty because compassion for cattle, not cruelty, is our true culture and constitutional duty,” said Dr Manilal Valliyate, CEO of PETA India.
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