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The new rules led to clashes with the police and threats of hunger strikes by members of the Jain religious community, which believes in nonviolence against all creatures.
By Suhasini Raj and Yan Zhuang
Pigeons are often seen as an unavoidable feature of the urban landscape, and bans on feeding them around the world, from Trafalgar Square in London to St. Mark’s Square in Venice, have been enacted without much public pushback.
