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Nepal Suffers Shortage of Sacrificial Goats

Country running short of goats ahead of major Hindu festival

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(Newser) – Baa-ad news. Nepal is facing a severe shortage of sacrificial goats ahead of one of the Hindu calendar's biggest festivals, the BBC reports. Officials are searching the countryside for as many as 4,000 goats to buy and bring to Kathmandu ahead of the Dashain festival, in which goats are ritually slaughtered to appease the goddess Durga. The government blames the shortage on China exporting fewer goats to Nepal, causing prices to skyrocket.

The Golden Temple, Kathmandu.
The Golden Temple, Kathmandu.   (©Prashant_sh)
"Kathmandu city faces a shortage of goats during the festival, which always brings a high demand for goat meat," a Nepali official said.   (©judepics)
Nepali officials have been ordered to scour the countryside for sacrificial goats.
Nepali officials have been ordered to scour the countryside for sacrificial goats.   (Newser)
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riffran
Sep 16, 09 5:03 AM CDT
BBQ cabrito anyone..goes good with Corona and Pico de gallo Reply
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Timinator2K
Sep 16, 09 8:07 AM CDT
They can have their pick of as many old goats from our Congress or, Senate as they could stand. I'd suggest Nancy Bitchlosi to start. Reply
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passinthru
Sep 16, 09 11:36 AM CDT
and here you not even A DAY later being the SAME hypocrite about bringing up politics off-colorly in an even dumber article than the one you tried to scrutinize someone else for. at least when they made the comment it had a SLIGHT reference to the article...grow up will ya? jesus...
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schmidtkoff
Sep 16, 09 12:01 PM CDT
not to be disrespectful to the hindu's but holy cow. there are a lot of them lolling around. Reply
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riffran
Sep 17, 09 6:02 AM CDT
religion or not, If i'm hungry enough aint no animal except maybe maybe a skunk or buzzard safe, damn sure aint no t-bone on the hoof going to make it....lol..I like that seen from Tropical Thunder..when Jack Black was jonesing..and stalking the water buffalo ."I want to bite it.....I want to wear it's stomach like a unitard"...rofl...that never gets old
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