Blindfolding Gandhi Leads to Ingrid’s Arrest

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You may have heard that PETA’s Managing Director Ingrid Newkirk was arrested in Coimbatore, India, the other day for blindfolding a Mahatma Gandhi statue during the notorious Jallikatu. Why did she do it?

As she explains in her letter to The Times newspaper, who covered the story, these tormented bulls are treated in much the same way as those forced to take part in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. She was simply trying to “symbolically shield” his eyes from the cruel spectacle taking place in front of him.

You can read more about what horrors go on at Jallikatu here.

“Videos of Jallikattu now circulating on the Internet show what the bulls endure and that veterinarians cannot possibly monitor the animals to prevent the common practice of dosing them with crude alcohol and rubbing chilli peppers into their eyes,” writes Ingrid. Right on!

Luckily for us PETA folks and the animals, Ingrid was released and allowed to continue her India tour.

Tags: bullfighting, Ingrid Newkirk, jalikkattu, Running of the Bulls

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