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Toro (Zamora) in August 2012. – While nobody questions the work of Caritas, the Catholic Charity, in helping the poorest in society, it is morally unacceptable that this charity cooperates with some municipalities which organize bullfighting events to raise funds for them. This time it was the town of Toro (Zamora) that held a fight [...]
La Cava, Deltebre, August 16, 2012. A 44 year old man died when a charging bull brought down the protective fence during a bull running event or correbous. The mayor of La Cava, Gervasi Aspa, said that preparations for the correbous met the highest standards of safety and certainly this fatal accident is due to [...]
Valencia, in August 2012. – Two heifers died during the first day of the traditional “Bous a la mar” in Benicarlo. One fell from heat exhaustion during a period when the heifers were confined for two hours, which should have been limited to minutes. To date four bulls have died in Valencia bullfights in 2012. [...]
Madrid, August 2012. – One of the first measures taken by the new conservative Popular Party Government after winning the elections and having taken charge of TVE, was to take out the explicit reference to bullfights in the ‘Violence to animals’ section of the “Style Manual” of TVE. The bullfighting lobby is persistent in its [...]
Valencia June 2012.- In 2010 the Valencian Government, at that time headed by Francisco Camps, began a procedure to declare bullfighting and the “bous al carrer” events of Cultural interest. After more than two years, they have failed to achieve the necessary two favourable reports as required in Valencian heritage law. The University of Valencia [...]
Valencia, June 2012.-the 21-page report issued by the University of Valencia has given a drubbing to the counseling of culture of the Generalitat of Valencia. They had requested a report from the university hoping for support for their proposal to declare bullfighting and the bullfighting event, ‘bous al carrer’, events of Cultural interest”. However when [...]
Valladolid. – May 2011. – The Mayor of Valladolid, Javier Leon de la Riva, a big fan of bullfighting, has decided to award a grant of 180,000 Euros for the upcoming bullfights on May 13, during the Feria de San Pedro Regalado, patron saint of the city and of “bullkillers”. This decision has raised strong [...]
Madrid, June 2012. – The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Jose Ignacio Wert, has agreed to create a task force to develop a “National Plan of promotion and protection of bullfighting.” The future National Plan includes, among other measures, the design of advertising campaigns and the study of the extension of aid and cultural [...]
Caceres, April 2012. – Miguel Ibañez, head of Ethology of the Veterinary School of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and a member of the Association of Veterinary Abolitionists of bullfighting, AVAT, gave a lecture to students of Bullfighting in the auditorium of the veterinary faculty of Caceres. He especially emphasised the terrible physical suffering endured [...]
Catalonia, April 23, 2012. – The Catalan Government has authorized the municipality of Aldover, in the province of Tarragona, to organise two bull runs with young bulls and a bull of fire on the occasion of Sant Jordi festivity. This is a cruel way of overshadowing an emblematic Catalan festivity which is well-known around the [...]
