(Eqtsad)- Prices of sacrificial lambs have madly soared in Eastern countryside of Aleppo, the price of one kilogram of a sheep ranged between 3300 and 400 Syrian pounds, accompanied with decrease number of available livestock.
Despite all that increase in prices, according to the aid activist, some relief associations still buying sacrificial lambs, while some of them replaced that practice with distributing money allocated for buying sheep on the poor and needy.
The activist explained that an urgent need to economise in slaughtering livestock due to decrease supply of them compared to the number of residents in Eastern Aleppo that estimated by 324 thousand people, as over slaughtering sheep could lead to disastrous outcomes on besieged people.
Some experts asked following al-Ghouta experience in that field, as slaughtering female sheep was limited to old ones only, while males can be slaughtered when they reach to 8 months old, as they would use fodder disproportionate with their weight, but some felt that comparison is not possible due to available land to produce fodder in Ghouta.
Rami Ghunaim, Head of Liberated Veterinarians called to economise in slaughtering sheep this Eid, highlighting the fact that amount of livestock in the city under seige could play vital role in resistance. He considered that slaughtering male sheep is logic.
In his talk to Eqtsad, he called for taking care of livestock, explaining that it has decreased by 75% in Aleppo city and countryside since 2011.
As a result of calls to rationalising slaughtering sheep for Eid, Afkar association announced cancelling the project of sacrificial lambs this year due to recent situation of the city and hard siege, asking all association to do the same to protect the livestock in the city and secure the food supply for residents as long as possible.
Sheikh Mohammed Abdulla najib Salem has published on his facebook page a recommendation statement from the Higher Islamic Council about sacrificial lambs in besieged areas in which the religious Clerics agreed that sacrificial lambs are “Sunni practice but not a duty” while taking care of public interest is a duty, and in Islam duty has the priority.
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