Catalonia’s bullfight ban provokes emotional response [BBC]

Yesterday saw the Catalan parliament vote to ban bullfighting in Catalonia from 2012. However, the move, which was supported by the three main pro-Catalan parties, has been widely condemned in other areas of Spain and is likely to be challenged. The BBC report notes:

In the end the vote passed by an absolute majority – a wider margin of victory than animal rights campaigners had dared hope for.

In fact Catalonia is the second region of Spain to ban bullfighting, the first being the Canaries in the early 1990s. While many see it as an art-form, it is difficult in the 21st century to imagine continuing to allow a practice that involves taunting an animal to get it agitated; wounding it with spears so that blood runs down its back; and finally putting it out of its misery after 20 minutes to cheers of approval from the crowd.

Read Catalonia’s bullfight ban provokes emotional response on the BBC website

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