Senaka Weeraratna Reforming the nation’s appalling slaughterhouse conditions is a far more massive and urgent necessity than reforming the use of a few dozen domesticated elephants in a Perahera.  Millions of farm animals are transported and slaughtered annually under severe brutal conditions and mostly without being subject to regulation. Untrained and Unskilled Butchers without proper instruments for … Continue reading Reform of Slaughterhouse Conditions that have the archaic 19th Century Butcher’s Ordinance as the governing legislation is a more urgent Animal Welfare issue than Elephants in Perahera.