Don't line up with PETA. Have a similar opinion if you wish, but stand on your own line and make sure they're not touching you. PETA is an organization dedicated to making sure people pay attention to PETA. They're all about stunts and idiocy, not about animals. Object to jallikattu all you want, but there's better ways to do it than the way PETA does and there's better ways to do it than saying you line up with them.

Lovely, another peta stunt. Hey Andrew, how's about a video of what the other bovines are doing on that particular day. I bet it looks fun too.

peta really is all about peta. Sometimes I think that they are funded by agri business because they create so much ill will. It's all so hollywood where people either join peta or scientology. Of the two, I prefer the scientologists because they at least try to improve the human condition.

This one reminds me of when some peta types got the horse drawn carriages banned from downtown. The horses didn't seem happy enough. Somehow, those folks thought that the horses would be put to pasture where they would frolic away their remaining years. Didn't happen.

Whether you like PETA or not, they are still correct on this, and on so many other issues. Yes, they go overboard, but they are the ones who brought animal rights into national consciousness in the 80s. Thank you, Mr. Leonard.

...surrounded and put upon, alone in the crowded street.

Where PETA is right, they are right by accident. They are also wrong on so many other issues. More, I'd say, than the ones they're right on.

Which is why I said that if you happen to think something is wrong and PETA is involved, don't associate yourself with them, declare it wrong on your own or find another group to say it with.

Let them do some of their militant shit over there and see how many of them are hanged in public on hooks and wires. Sure, talk tough, smash up some labs in the US because worst-case you get arrested and free PR. Try that shit somewhere else.

I for one would love to see Ingrid "even if it cured AIDS and Cancer tomorrow, I would still be opposed to animal testing" Newkirk's skinned bleeding skull on a pike.

There was crueilty to the animals before PETA came into being 25-27 years ago but how many people knew about it? With PETA's antics how many more people know about it now? Who can deny that prevention of crueilty to animal is a noble cause? If PETA has to resort to antics just to draw attention towards this noble cause then it is reflection on the society and not on PETA. PETA's only fault is that it is telling us that we have to stop burrying our collective head in the sand and see because the crueilty is there and it is not going away. Just watch the video. Anybody thinks we have evolved from the Roman era 3000 years ago?

This looks like just another animal torture event hidden under the guise of "culture" and "tradition". It's time people started putting themselves in the position of the animal and asking if they'd be having fun if they were being chased around, jumped on and having various body parts yanked on.

I agree that what was happening to the bull wasn't fun, but it pales before the industrial scale cruelty of the following examples. Does anyone seriously believe that jallikattu is as bad as:

1) feeding ground-up discarded meat to cows

2) raising pigs and chickens in cramped quarters where they wallow in their own filth, so that we get good-tasting meat (not to mention the associated antibiotics and pesticides)

3) halal/kosher butchering practices: talk about "cultural" traditions.

Go stop some of these abominations first, and then move on to banning jallikattu.

The point of this is that these animals do not choose to participate in this barbaric event. Like in all events that use animals for human entertainment, the animals' needs are ignored completely. They are treated brutally and do not receive veternary care.

This is not about PETA, this is about cruelty to animals and the people who suppport that cruelty.

well written Andrew. jallikattu is a tradition which should continue. it is a bravery sport where a hero picks a knot tied to a bull thereby proving his bravery and also wining rewards. If PETA asked for change in the sport, i can understand, but asking the authorities to ban the sport is culturally insensitive. i welcome the court order of testing the bulls using vets and providing protection to them.

"This is the day these bulls have been waiting for all year" - Go bulls

Thiru Munisamy