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France.-The French association for the defence and well being of animals, CRAC, has begun a campaign of denunciation following censoring, on French public television France 2, of the anti-bullfighting writer Christian Laborde, author of the work “Enough Bullfighting“, that went on sale on April 9. The interview with Laborde was scrubbed at the behest of [...]
Córdoba (Colombia). – There are many alternative ways of collecting funds for such noble causes as the fight against cancer. For example concerts, sports meetings or theatre performances. Instead the members of the ´Organization of the Struggle against Cancer´ decided upon the senseless and bloody spectacle of a bullfight.
Members of such diverse animal protection affiliations [...]
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 [...]
Valencia (Venezuela). -The city of Valencia, in Venezuela, used to be one of the most pro-bullfighting in the country; it had an even bigger bullring than Mexico. Nevertheless, once Mayor Francisco “Paco” Cabrera, a man who was very pro bull-fighting, left office, interest in bullfighting declined. Furthermore, Jordi Casamitjana, coordinator of the group animal defence [...]
Ecuador. – In recent years the anti-bullfighting movement has achieved very important victories in Ecuador, and continues to grow both in size and in quality. Groups such as PAE, Anima Naturalis, in Guayaquil, or ARCA in Cuenca, have joined efforts, and this has yielded results. In May, 2007 Baños de Agua Santo became the first [...]
On the Web page of EU European Citizen Consultations the pro-animal affiliation French Alliance Anticorrida (French Anti-bullfighting Alliance) has presented a proposal to bring an end to bullfights in the South of France The affiliation wrote to all the Euro MPs encouraging them to declare their position on the practice of the bullfighting. Their founder [...]
Lisboa (Portugal).-Animal well-being affiliations have already denounced the performance of Miguelito Lagravére, the so-called child toreador who is only 11 years of age. What is exercising French authorities is the fact that he has violated article 223-1 of the Penal French Code, in putting his own life in danger. Alerted to his performance, the district [...]
France.-The voice of the French people is heard and felt in municipal elections, and has been involved in a fall in of the number of active bullrings. Bullfighting activity has been stopped in the town of Fenouillet and, two more spectacles of death have been stopped in Caissargues. There is always great opposition after this [...]
Asti (Italy) – organized by the Italian affiliation UNA. In April, 2009 Asti was the site of Italy’s first anti-bullfight meeting. Several different animal defence and welfare groups presented the situation of the anti-bullfighting movement in their respective countries. In the case of Spain, the defenders of the animals presented concrete facts: overall 70 % [...]
