The Bull Tribune

AVAT critizices bullfighting

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:16:46 +0000

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 by the bull. Ibanez contested a study presented in 2007 by other veterinarians, ( the Illera Report ) which maintained that bulls are somehow endowed with a special capacity to endure pain and manage it to suffer less . He also talked about the inherent anachronism and contradiction of veterinarians supporting these events and even giving awards to breeders of bulls for these events.

Saint Jordi, tarnished by correbous

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:15:42 +0000

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 world. The symbols of Saint Jordi are the book and the rose which represent the values of culture, sensitivity and good feelings. This is not compatible with taking pleasure in the tormenting of an animal.

7,000 Mexicans against bullfighting in Mexico City

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:13:33 +0000

Mexico City, April 22, 2012. – 7,000 people demonstrated in Plaza del Zócalo in central Mexico to urge the Federal District Legislative Assembly to ban bullfighting in Mexico City. The anti-bullfighting movement is growing in Mexico and according to a recent survey 70% of Mexicans are against these cruel spectacles. Recently a Committee of the Assembly approved the amendment to art. 42 of the Public Entertainment Act to ban bull fighting. The debate in the Legislative Assembly is still pending.

Shocking figures

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:53:35 +0000

Madrid. – The MP Josep Pujals Nuet of the ICV-EUiA, has sent to the Spanish government two questions concerning the total annual cost for the Spanish radio and TV channels of programs related to bullfighting, during the period 2007-2011 . The figures are dizzying and shocking: the program “Tendido Zero” reports a total expenditure of 5,971,450.56 Euros. In addition, regarding the retransmission of the annual San Fermin running of the bulls it gives the figure of 3,042,775.36 Euros. In short, RTVE has spent in total, from 2007 to 2011, 9,014,225.92 Euros. Shameful!

A bleak future for the bullfights in Seville.

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:52:13 +0000

Seville, April 2012. – The large drop in the number of bullfights held in recent years in this town happily reflects a bleak prospect .Many bullrings could not open in 2011, and many of towns did not organize more than two bullfights. Places such as Cantilla, Dos Hermanas, Espartinas and Ecija, to name but a few, opened their doors to “host” one or two of these miserable spectacles.
Source: Asanda

A survey with surprising results

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:44:17 +0000

Mexico City, April 2012. – On April 9 members of the Coalition “No Violence” and legislators of the Green Party of Mexico, PVME, held a press conference at the Legislative Assembly. It addressed, among other issues, the bill that seeks to ban bullfighting in Mexico City. The deputy. Antonio Vega Nava, of the PVEM, released the results of a survey conducted by his party which reflects that 70% of people are against bullfighting, while only 20% are in favour and 10% declared themselves as undecided. ADDA has written to all Members of the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City asking them to vote in favour of the ban.

Surrealist petition from Spanish “bull killers”

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:43:16 +0000

Madrid, April 2012. – On April 3rd, the Minister of Culture, Education and Sports, José Ignacio Wert, received at the headquarters of the ministry, the board of directors of the Union of Toreros, represented by bull killers Jose Maria Manzanares and El Juli, among others. The bull killers called for an absurd and surreal recognition of the “intellectual property” of their bullfights, as is usual with the singers for their live performances. Also, they continue to insist that bullfighting is declared an item of cultural interest.

A Minister of Culture and Education?

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:41:20 +0000

Madrid, April 2012. – The current Minister of of Education, Culture and Sport, Jose Ignacio Wert, has announced his intention to develop “national and international measures” to declare bullfights an “intangible heritage”. His Ministry threatens to “participate actively” in these initiatives. This means that the concept of Culture and Education for Mr. Wert is to design a communication campaign that highlights the “cultural, socioeconomic and environmental values of bullfighting in its entirety” of the bloody and cruel spectacle of bullfights.

Another scandal of the French bullfighting lobby

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:29:15 +0000

March 2012.- the French Antibullfighting Federation, FLAC reported a new trick of the National Observatory of Bullfighting Cultures,ONCT, the standard bearer of the bullfighting lobby in France. Their latest dirty trick is to produce a forged list of psychiatrists (mostly from southern France) who alledgedly signed a statement drafted by the ONCT, which maintains that bullfighting has an ”educational” function for children . According to the bullfighting lobby, 150 psychiatrists and academics signed the declaration, but the reality is very different: firstly there are not 150 psychiatrists but 141; secondly the list includes the names of two people who do not exist; thirdly among the 91 responses received, 51 doctors (65%) did not sign teh staement, either because they oppose its content (54%) or because they abstained. In addition, 11 psychiatrists have expresed their opposition to the conduct of the ONCT. In short, only 20 psychiatrists, or 22%, agreed with the contents of the “manifesto”.

It is not the first time that the French bullfighting lobby has resorted to lies. In 2010, during the process of the ILP who managed to ban bullfights in Catalonia, they sent to Members of the Catalan Parliament, a supposed list of French deputies and mayors in support of the Catalan bullfighting lobby. This list, also, was proved to have been falsified.
Source : FLAC

More grants for bullfighting and continuing

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:28:38 +0000

Madrid, March 28, 2012. – The Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid, CAM, issued a decree regulating the Culture Awards given annually by CAM in order to incorporate bullfighting to these awards. The prizes are endowed with the not inconsiderable amount of 18,000 euros. In July 2011, responsibility for bullfighting was transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Culture, under the former government of the Socialist Party. Just before the general elections, the then Minister of Culture, Gonzalez-Sinde included bullfighting in the national awards granted by the Ministry of Culture each year which are endowed with 30,000 euros. In addition, almost every year a bullfighter is awarded with the Medal of Fine Arts . In short, bullfighting receives many more awards than any truly artistic activity (painting, music, sculpture, theater, etc..).