Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Growing oppostion to bull-fighting in Spain...

Admirers of bullfighting see it as one of Spain's most powerful cultural expressions - the only art in which the artist risks his life, as the late US writer Ernest Hemingway put it. 

Increasing numbers of Spaniards, however, see the country's 'national spectacle' in a different light - as a cruel bloodsport in which a tortured animal is given no chance to defeat its opponent.

Opposition to bullfighting is mounting especially in north-eastern Catalonia, which could become Spain's first region to ban corridas, anti-bullfighting campaigner Eric Gallego told the German Press Agency dpa in a telephone interview. More...

See also:

  1. A bull visits a supermarket!!!
  2. Runnnig with the bulls in Spain! Just crazy...
  3. 11-year-old matador slaughters 6 bulls for Guinness Book of Records...
  4. The horrors of bull-fighting...
  5. How every family in Britain is paying to keep alive bullfighting...

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