They don't Really Care about the Buffaloes

Good content for debating, the fact remains is as shyam said, it is only a exploitation in the name of superstition, we slaughter the innocent, helpless and dumb animals.  when we see into their eyes before slaughtering them, their innocence and silence does it not impact the slaughterer's wicket intention to finish it for his gain in the name of either "Sacrifice" or "allah"? it is nothing but un-organised sector of KFC running since decades!! God should save poor animals? and the fact is even the god in whose name these slaughtering is on and on, comes on land and say "Please do not sacrifice poor animals-for my sake, for heaven sake" might be the slaughter would sacrifice the god itself?? 

I read in detail the article and various comments & views. I appreciate Gavaz for sharing this article, Shyam for further updations and Inani, Shiulu, Priya, Makrand for vriety of views. I can only add that any sensible individual feels bad about killing any living being. That is why sanatana dharma is an invaluable asset!!!

there will be some who will b'live in animal acrifice and there will be some who wont b'live it it. poles of opposite will exit in this world on any issue or aspect. its all about our individual principles coupled will relegious, ethinic influences. as along as it is not rampantly againt nature...,
as far as the issue killing the animal goes... this world has been always about survival of the fittest. and human beings are most inhuman.

The question is in Animal Kingdom, Are Bovines equal in Value to Humans?
In the big picture of earthly existence, are the lives of bovines and other animals any value to humans? Just thinking aloud not as an animal rights activist, nor as a philosopher nor an intellectual who is immune to personal hypocrisy. In fact, in plainspoken, opinionated, homespun English. 
From a view of a consumer, capitalist and religious bigots. Bovines are raised for sale to provide meat on the dinner table for hundreds of human families, they are also slaughtered to bring good Faith in Human soul.
Gavaz, what do you say to people who accuse you of reading your own human emotions and perspective into what you're witnessing with this kind of act? Wildlife biologists may say that one is speculating with conjecture and staking out a subjective position rather than an objective one that is based on the gathering of peer-reviewed empirical evidence. And some in the religious community argue that equating the value of humans to animals is heresy. If you want your paradigm shift to be taken seriously by public land managers and private property owners, how do you prove what your gut is telling you?
To my knowledge, anthropomorphize means “to attribute human form or personality to things not human”. But there is no opposite term in Webster’s Dictionary. If there is, I have never heard it used in scientific circles. Without the opposite view being presented or identified, I have to attribute the origins of the term, anthropomorphism, to the bias of superiority humans assert over everything else in the world.
Superiority is a “Catch-22” in the biological science world. We assign life judged against our own, but this bias keeps us from actually seeing what life is. Anthropomorphism, and its resulting sense of superiority, doesn’t stop at animal vs. human comparisons. To conquer and kill, people have to justify their actions. Thus we get the words “sub humans”, savages, slaves, Aryan Race and Holocaust. 

More subtle and insidious is what this attitude creates when we manage, domesticate or control other living things.

Not to take away the emotion and the sacred nature attached to the bovine family... I wish to ask all of you here to look at it a little differently!!
It is now a known fact that these bovine creatures emit METHANE as a gnas that they belch out after their digestion process called rumination. These are secreted a@ 1/2 (half) a pound per minute!! Methane is a highly inflammable gas and is also not useful for our breathing process. Nor is it useful for the plants in anyway. But Methane has the capacity to double its presence in the atmosphere in 10 years and also it can trap heat 20 times more than Carbon does!! Its higly dangerous to our very existence!!
So please look at this a little more practically. The reason why I would condone this festivity is for the sheer murderous nature of these lovely animals under the pious garb, but if done for the reasons of greener environment.... It would be a different cause altogether!! Please do not take this as an argument but use this info as awareness... 
Thank you.

Thank you Shyam for the sympathetic response. Alongside I deeply regret the shortcomings in the article. I hope you would with a broad mind condone those considering the fact that I am not that consummate a writer.

However, with people such as Shyam and Inani and definitely even more, taking pain to ponder over such subtleties of human social life, the difference would be certainly visible, or the gaps left by me would be bridged more efficiently.

Nice of you to bring up such a subject in this professional forum.
However, in your attempt to discuss about sanatan dharma, you missed out the very essence of  the reasons behind such weird behavior mankind.
Why do human beings kill after all ? Whether it is for your "chicken sandwich" or  for  "bakrid" or for  "Devi-pujan" its all the same isn't it ?
Human beings kill because they desire to exploit the nature for their fulfillments.
There is no limit to human greed.

I don't see how KFC is any better than those who "Sacrifice" in the name of God : whether they call Him Allah or  just  "Devi".
The fundamental problem remains the same : the desire to exploit.
In this regard, I would like to point out that you missed out the greatest exponents of sanatan dharma in your message: The vaishnav acharyas : Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, Vallabhacharya and of course, Gauranga Mahaprabhu.
The divine message given by those Acharyas  far transcends the plane of exploitation (as well as  false renunciation).

But this is a professional forum and to say much about this here would seem out of place.
We should also wonder why we are slaughtering this animal : this human life, by engaging in worthless pursuits of exploitation (and sometimes of false renunciation).
First we should try to correct ourselves. We can't do much for animals that are slaughtered in thousands of factories around the globe. The fair in Nepal is just an open factory and you see it being done in the name of "Devi". You will find more such "open factories" where millions of animals lose their life to some other false idea. The basic problem is exploitation.

Nice of you Inani. See that you act as well....somewhere....sometime...

I had seen this news earlier in the Guardian and Reuters website, and felt really bad for those animals which were slaughtered like anything, and 250,000 is a huge number and Governments should ban these inhuman acts. Though people consume the meat, but then to slaughter like this, just to praise the lord is nonsense, god doesn't require blood, its just sheer superstition that is driving this festival where thousands of buffaloes and other animals are slaughtered. Feels really bad:(