Coronavirus Fears Force Animal Sellers Online For Muslim Festival
In this picture taken on July 24, 2020, a livestock vendor takes photographs of cattle with a mobile phone to display on a website for online customers ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha or the ‘Festival of Sacrifice’, at a market in Dhaka Prancing in front of a camera with its blond mane blowing in the wind, “007” is one of the thousands of goats being sold online as Muslims prepare for a key religious festival shaken this year by the coronavirus pandemic.
“We were traumatised by the loss of two of my uncles to COVID-19 and didn’t want to sacrifice an animal,” Saddid Hossain told AFP in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.Faced with deserted markets, livestock breeders and traders have turned to websites, apps and social media to showcase their animals.
One farm he promotes runs video beauty contests to tempt potential customers, who might buy the goats for their families in India, where there are 200 million Muslims.In this picture taken on July 24, 2020, a livestock vendor wearing a facemask waits for customers to sell goats ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha or the ‘Festival of Sacrifice’, on a road in Srinagar.
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