[The_Media_never_lie]

To whom or what are they being sacrificed?

Maybe euthanized is the more appropriate term.

[Scaramouch]

To whom or what are they being sacrificed?

Baal Moloch?

[DrPretorius]

Moslems practice ritual slaughter of sheep, goats, and cattle during the Eid-al-Adha ceremony every year in keeping with the Abrahamic tradition. The Jews stopped the practice and the Christians never had such a practice. It’s another thing that the Moslems do in keeping with their bloodthirsty “religion.”

[Verginius Rufus]

Cartagena was founded by Hasdrubal, the son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca, and later captured for Rome by Publius Cornelius Scipio (later called Africanus). If Scipio had decided that the cattle had to be sacrificed, he would have called in a haruspex to inspect their livers and thus learn the will of the gods. No sense in letting a bunch of cattle go to waste.