I have been reading a press notice from the Colectivo Andaluz Contra el Maltrato Animal which protests that the Andalucía government is breaking its own law governing the use of animals in circuses.
The action group says it has made official complaints against all circuses that have animals as they visit Andalucía. The denouncements have been lodged with the region’s ministries of agriculture and fisheries as well as the environment along with the government offices in each province yet it is claimed the action has been taken without any success.
The circuses still use animals for fun and entertainment. However the Ley de Protección de los Animales passed in November 24, 2003, in article four prohibits the use of animals in exhibitions, circuses, publicity, popular fiestas and other activities which allow the animal to incur suffering, pain or unnatural treatment. Other provisions underscore these provisions and also lay down strict procedures for how animals must be housed, cared for and transported.
Fair enough! I have nothing against circuses as long as they don’t use animals.
However just let us rewind here. The Colectivo Andaluz Contra el Maltrato Animal says the 2003 law prohibits the use of animals in exhibitions, circuses, publicity, popular fiestas and other activities which allow the animal to incur suffering, pain or unnatural treatment.
Now popular fiestas would no doubt include the ‘fiesta nacional’ – the bullfight – and such events where the bull or young calf isn’t killed but is chased through the street, wrestled to the ground in a plaza de toros or has baskets of fire attached to its horns – for the fun of the public.
If I read this law correctly - in Andalucía all these are illegal. So it is not just circuses the regional government should be acting against (but isn’t) but its own law says bullfights should be banned too. Or am I missing something here?
5 comments:
How can anyone with more than 1 brain cell think this is fun?
what you're missing (read: deliberately leaving out) is the exception made for taurine events built into the law. i think the question is why is sancho an inverate liar? i suppose we could ask also why sancho in spain is stupid enough to imagine some imaginary facist andalucia without toros? perhaps he's not stupid but just blinded by hate. he should know that the last chance to prohibit bulls and spain died with the republic and the stalinists who propped it up. by now bulls are so firmly lodged in world culture that the doctrinaire left can do nothing about it - much less puffy and impotent sancho
The previous post was so vitriolic. What a shame, since an intelligent discourse is needed. Bravo, sancho.
I get why it SHOULD be banned - so why ISN'T it?
SHAME,SHAME,SHAME!
"stupid enough to imagine some imaginary facist andalucia without toros? "
So the halting of animal cruelty is a facist (sic) agenda is it?
Perhaps bullfighting is socialist (non-fascist) activity then?
Post a Comment