US EditionTradition or Animal Abuse? Children Break Piñata with Live Animals in Campeche; Video Causes Outrage in Networks
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Mexico City.- A recent event has rekindled the debate on the boundaries between tradition and respect for animal rights. In the Kilakan neighborhood, in the municipality of Calkiní, Campeche, an event was documented that has generated great social outrage: several living animals, including iguanas, were placed inside singing mud that were then beaten by minors during a local celebration. The practice was part of a community activity that, accord…
Subscribe to our WhatsApp channel and bring the information in the palm of your hand.Tradition with cruelty: Pineapples with live animals generate indignation in Campeche During a patron saint's holiday in Kilakán, Campeche, piñatas were broken that contained live animals such as iguanas and snakes, which were beaten by children and adults to death.Although some defend this practice as a tradition, the Prosecutor's Office investigates organizers…
A recent incident has rekindled the debate about the boundaries between tradition and respect for animal rights. In the Kilakan neighborhood of the municipality of Calkiní, Campeche, an event that has generated great social outrage was documented: several live animals, including iguanas, were placed inside clay jugs and then beaten by minors during a local celebration. The practice was part of a community activity that, according to reports, had…
The use of live animals provoked a wave of criticism and revived the debate on animal abuse in popular celebrations
Calkiní, Campeche. A complaint for animal abuse has been filed with the Prosecutor’s Office Specializing in Crimes against Animals, Environment and Ecosystems of Campeche, after the use of piñatas stuffed with live animals, including iguanas, snakes and small foxes during a patron saint’s festival in the Kilakán district of the municipality of Calkiní. Although this practice was presented as a local custom, animal abuse is already considered a c…
CAMPECHE.— On social networks, a video has gone viral showing several people breaking a piñata in the municipality of Calkiní, Campeche; however, the images have caused outrage, since, when the piñata breaks, small live animals fall down, and not in conformity with this, children and adults chase them to beat them with sticks and step on them. In the videos you can see when a child breaks with sticks a piñata of mud, after which, several iguanas…
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