Fire bulls: Spain's indescribably cruel animal torture 'tradition'

[frogwoman]

There is a Spanish equivalent of the RSPCA i think but it seems the people who organise these events have a lot of power, especially on town councils

 

[frogwoman]

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[frogwoman]

https://www/patronatodeltorodelavega.com/2016/127-lor/index.html

Link broken for obvious reasons but this is a letter by late Tory Lord (and Club Taurino member like Daniel Hannan) Tristan Garel Jones writing to the Spanish government not to ban the Toro de La Vega event, which included a bull being chased down by hundreds of people on horses and speared to death.

In the end, it thankfully was banned.

 

[StoneRoad]

And another "traditional" activity ... bull running is quite widespread but is still abhorrent,
The best known "festival" is probably Pamplona, but there are many others, and they usually precede a bull-fighting "festival"


And, as usual, there's a human cost in excess of the poor treatment / risk to the bulls.

Man gored to death by bull at Spanish festival

Friend also injured by same animal during the Pobla de Farnals festival in the Valencia region.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[frogwoman]

Catalunya is looking like it may ban this, they've just agreed to vote on it in Parliament. Let's hope the rest of Spain follows