The first step toward the abolition of bullfights in Mexico

Mexico DF. – The Mexican deputy Rebeca Parada Ortega, supported by animal defence and welfare groups, presented two new projects of Law to the Table of the Congress of Mexico DF to prohibit the use of live animals, wild or domesticated, in circuses. This initiative is the first very important step towards the prohibition of the bullfights in a country considered the most pro-bullfighting of the world.   Although the proposal does not call for any prohibition against bullfighting, the argument for legislating against using living animals in the circuses on the grounds of avoiding their suffering, will give weight to the argument to ban bullfighting, a similar type of spectacle.  There are already several countries that have abolished the use of animals in circuses, such as Austria, Bulgaria, Costa Rica and Croatia.  In others, such as France, India, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, the prohibition applies only to some types of animals.  In addition there are cities of the world that have prohibited animals in circuses, such as Barcelona in Spain.

At the press conference held to present this initiative for animals there were present the representatives of Mexican and international animal defence groups, who reaffirmed their relations with the organisation for the prohibition of bullfights (Committee Anti Stierenvechten, CAS).