I thought this was a prank article and had to check that it wasn’t April the first. Good news! It isn’t April the first and this is no prank. Well, good news if you’re not a cow living in South Africa…
A proposal to bless South Africa’s World Cup stadiums by slaughtering a cow in each one has caused concern among animal rights activists.
The Makhonya Royal Trust, which put forward the idea, described the cattle killing ritual as a “true African” way of blessing the 2010 tournament.
Government minister Sicelo Shiceka has promised to lobby football’s governing body, Fifa, in support of the plan.
But animal rights groups have demanded to be consulted over the plans.
The National Council for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has written to Fifa over the issue.
Now i don’t see what all the fuss is about. If the South Africans want to slaughter some cows to get a good mo-jo going on in the grounds then so be it. Who are we to tell them differently? But they should at least be imaginative about it. Let two teams of eleven cows each play a game of football in each of the stadiums and give them ten balls to play with (to be nice, hey, it’s their first time) and one of the balls is actually a bomb. The first cow to connect properly with the bomb-ball gets the honour of being the sacrificial lamb cow. So you get your sacrifice AND you get to see twenty-two cows playing football. This is what they should do. You know; or something sensible like that.
CheekyOneTwo 