INDIA
THE FOR HEIFER WAR Members of a vigilante group on a patrol for smugglers in Ramgarh, India, in November 2015.
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IN A BARN IN HARYANA, A STATE in northwest India, more than a dozen men are preparing for a night they might not survive. Around them stand injured heifers, many with broken limbs. The air reeks of urine and feces, and in a bowl on the ground, maggots writhe in rotting flesh a vet has cut from one of the cow’s wounds.