Animal rights, which form a vital component of the rights of nature, featured predominantly in a recent, game-changing judgment of the Supreme Court of India (December 2014) that banned bullfights (jallikattu) in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Bullfights are a popular sport in this province, associated with the harvest festival of Pongal and a long cultural history among the rural classes. The Supreme Court judgment argued that such events were “obviously not meant for the well-being of animals.”