Thursday, July 26, 2007

The end is nigh

The Court of Appeal in London has overturned the ruling by the High Court last week saving Shambo, the sacred bullock.

This morning inspectors arrived at the Skanda Vale community to collect Shambo. They were greeted by crowds of protesters from as far afield as Switzerland and New Zealand. The monks are holding a service of worship in front of Shambo, saying the inspectors will have to desecrate a temple and interrupt an act of worship to get to him.

A spokesman for the Farmers' Union said, 'We do sympathise. I spoke to a farmer yesterday and he'd lost 80 cattle over the last couple of months and you know there wasn't any television coverage of 80 cattle going off his farm but yet he had to face that and was quite emotional.'

He also said that they welcomed the publicity that the disease was getting: TB is an ongoing problem and needs to be dealt with.

I'll keep you informed.
xx

3 comments:

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

Poor, innocent animal.

Anonymous said...

That is tough, but better than how it would end up with TB.

Anonymous said...

there's been talk of this even in my own country. generates much interest..an emotional issue bcoz includes the element of faith n belief