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Agde, France. – The French daily newspaper, Hérault Tribune, has published the letter of support sent by ADDA to the antibullfighting French affiliation FLAC (Fédération des Luttes pour l’Abolition of Bullfights), for the documentary that Thierry Hély filmed in the year 2000 at the Bezier bullring. The objective of the event was the initiation [...]
Barcelona. – Things must be looking bad for La Mesa del Toro (a European bullfighting association) when they have had to resort to asking the Commission of Government of Andalusia, including the President, to draw on public money to invite the deputies of Parliament of Catalonia to visit Andalusia in order to be told about [...]
Barcelona. – On December 18 last, the Catalan Parliament gave the go-ahead to the Legislative Popular Initiative (ILP), supported by 180.000 citizens’ signatures. Sixty seven deputies voted against the amendments presented by the PSC, PP and Ciutadans parties to this popular Initiative. The object of the ILP is to remove the shameful exception of [...]
Portugal. – The Animal organization, of Portugal, together with Cas International, and the United Kingdom League against Cruel Sports has called for the Chinese government and to the officials of the city of Beijing, to forbid the introduction of bullfighting and any activity related to the bullfight world in their country. A part of [...]
Soria. – Groups of animal welfare defenders presented recently in the registrar of the Community of Castile and León, in Soria. They presented more than 7,000 signatures from people from 90 different countries protesting against the “celebration” of the ‘toro de jubilo’ in Medinaceli, the only example of the ‘bull of fire’ spectacle [...]
Rioja. – The Euro MP of the Commission of Agriculture and Rural Politics, Maria Esther Herranz García continues to make declarations in favour of the bullfights. Her line is that, rather than addressing the apparent irrationality of the bullfights, that she believes that everyone in the bullring “respects” the animal and those who say differently [...]
Barcelona. – The organisation ADDA, Association for the Defence of the Rights of Animals together with the World Society for the Protection of Animals, WSPA, delivered last Monday, 14th December, to the Parliament of Catalonia, 127,000 new signatures against bullfighting in the Catalonian region.
These signatures join those already presented at the Catalonian Parliament against bullfighting, [...]
Bilbao.- The bullfights are not even pleasing their own fans, reveals the leading article of the French bullfighting magazine ‘Toros’, which in the edition of last 18th September reports the declarations of Matías González, president of the bullring of ‘Vista Alegre’ (which translates as ‘Happy Sight’), in Bilbao, who admits “to feeling surprised on having [...]
Nîmes.- The bullfighting businessman Simon Casas admits that “this year they seen a reduction of 10%, or 4.500 individuals, from 2008 numbers, in the number of spectators attending the festival bullfight. Although in the rest of the arenas of France and Spain, an even bigger reduction in audiences, of 30%, has been registered in the [...]
France.- The Animal welfare affiliation, Alliance Anticorrida, founded and headed by Claire Starozinski, has proposed to the organizers of a bullfight to sponsor this event to the amount of 2.000 dollars, for one or more stagings of a bullfight spectacle. This might lead us to believe that the animal lovers have lost the plot, [...]
