A temple in southern Nepal went ahead with the world’s largest mass sacrificial slaughter of animals this week, despite an outcry from animal rights activists and a Supreme Court  ruling seeking to end the practice, .

The activists called the sacrifices at Gadhimai temple in Bara district an “appalling bloodbath” as thousands of animals — buffaloes, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, and rats — were slaughtered to appease Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power, over two days, starting Dec. 8.

Hundreds of thousands of devotees from Nepal and neighboring India attended the festival this year where an estimated 200,000 animals, including 6,000 buffaloes, were beheaded.

“I was appalled to see a ten-day-old calf being brought to sacrifice. This is the height of inhumanity I’ve witnessed so far,” said Sneha Shrestha, president of the Federation of Animal Welfare Nepal, who started the “Bloodless Gadhimai” campaign in 2014.

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