Target: Richard Ferrand, President of France’s National Assembly
Goal: Ban bullfighting that causes grotesque injuries and a thousand-plus deaths.
A court acknowledged that bullfighting caused “great suffering” that includes grotesque injuries and infections. The instruments of this suffering include swords, lances, and barbed darts. And the outcomes range from debilitating head and neck trauma to death. In France alone, the country where the aforementioned court is located, about 1,000 bulls are killed every year for sport. But after talking about the suffering and cruelty that defines bullfighting, judges at the court in question declared that local customs carry greater weight than animal cruelty. They ruled against the Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) in a case the animal rights organization brought against a bullfighter for “shocking and barbaric” animal cruelty. Then, to pour salt in the wound of animal welfare advocates everywhere, they ordered the SPA to pay the defendant’s court fees.
This case represents the latest loss in a long battle against French bullfighting. Despite having strong animal cruelty laws for nearly every other class of animal, none of these laws protect vulnerable bulls. In areas where bullfighting has long been practiced, the barbarity of this supposed “entertainment” is exempt from any liability or criminality. The courts will obviously not intervene on behalf of these living beings, so lawmakers must at last take the reins.
Sign the petition below to demand France abolish this sick blood-sport once and for all.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Ferrand,
Stab wounds, burns, gory infections, broken bones: such injuries inflicted on a wide scale would shock the conscience of any caring person. If you heard that such torturous injuries took the lives of over 1,000 living beings every year, would you be outraged? Would the outrage turn to confusion if you discovered such brutal behaviors were permitted by your leaders…by yourself?
No amount of waxing poetic about tradition and custom can hide the fact that this reality is the face of bullfighting in France. The country has some of the strongest animal cruelty laws in the world, and you pride yourselves on civility and empathy. This violent practice defies every assertion you make, and it makes a mockery of French ideals.
Please take the only possible step forward. Abolish a deadly form of entertainment that no longer has a place in a humane society.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Becerra Goves Photos
It’s not the year 1523 anymore and this brutal and sadistic ‘custom’ of deliberately torturing a living being is deplorable. Abusing animals for ‘entertainment’ is deplorable and this makes France look so backwards and bloodthirsty, why would keep doing this? Come into the 21st century and stop this BS, stop torturing animals!
I am sick to death of the word tradition being used by sick barbaric people to allow them to indulge their sick barbaric actions.
Sport is football, baseball, swimming or anything with two equal sides who CHOOSE to indulge or something you do to challenge yourself that does not include maiming and killing non willing participants
Yes….i agree
STOP THIS BARBARIC PRACTICE IMMEDIATELY!!! WHAT KIND OF SICK, DEMENTED, HEINOUS, TOXIC, DISPICABLE, UNHINGED, GODLESS MONSTERS ENJOY WATCHING A VOICELESS DEFENSELESS ANIMAL BE TORTURED TO DEATH???!!! THIS IS A PRACTICE OF UNHINGED, DERANGED, GODLESS SCUM!!! THE QUALITY OF A NATION AND ITS PEOPLE ARE DETERMINED AND JUDGED BY HOW IT TREATS IT’S ANIMALS….HIGH TIME YOU IMPROVED YOUR QUALITY!!!
This needs to stop poor bulls it’s just evil
Disgusting! Right up there with the Faroes and the sadists who torture animals in laboratories
Yes I agree totally, it’s monstrous
Henious . Vile .stop it now
Scum . cowards and rotten. You will get your karma.
This so called sport is simply cruel. It sickens me that anyone could watch let alone participate in activities that involve such horrific torture of a living being. I have friends who live in Spain, aand have been invited to visit many times; however, I refuse to ever step foot on the soil of any land that boasts of such “tradition”.
Torturing any animal to death is simple cruelty and abusive. Both the fighters and the audience are guilty of cruelry.
YOU ALL ARE SUCH COWARDS!!! THIS POOR ANIMAL CAN NOT PROTECT IT SELF FROM HORRIBLE HORRIBLE TORTURE AN EXTREME PAIN !!! MUST STOP THIS “EVIL TREATMENT” IMMEDIATELY !!!! USE THOSE WEAPONS ON HE EACH ,,,, THAT WOULD BE A FAIR FIGHT !!!!
I half expected France to be a little more progressive and much less retarded.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE DARK AGES BARBARIANS AND JOIN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY ALREADY
Yes I totally agree!❤
This cruel “sport” should have been stopped a long time ago. I can’t imagine why tourists even support countries that still practice this.
Only human monsters without compassion or empathy could engage in or choose to witness such agonizingly painful atrocities..I say put them instead in the ring experiencing this hell in place of these bulls–
if they so love the torture.
Stop the torture and killing of these innocent mammals now!!!
What your article does not include is that the lancing of the bull’s neck is “performed” on horse back, where the horse (although “humanely” padded to keep the audience from seeing the horse’s blood from being gored which also includes the cutting of their vocal cords without anesthesia) is repeatedly gored and is another dead victim of these pleasure spectators!
F….k the barbarians!!!
THESE MORONS ALLOW THIS SHOULD RECEIVE THE SAME TREATMENT.
END bullfighting everywhere NOW.
Ban this murder immediately.
Sick to my soul. Like the UK with its disgusting fox hunting, deers being run to death by dogs. Elsewhere, Chics being shredded alive. Dogs being boiled and skinned alive in backward countries and cruel China. Celebrities and rich people wearing furs knowing the animals were either skinned alive or anally or vaginally electrocuted. Pigs/ cows being stunned and gutted before they are even dead. Chickens hung upside down on a conveyor belt to have there heads chopped off. Man eats and creates misery. If you eat animal products you are a part of this horrific cycle.
I feel you.I became a vegan 5 years ago, best choice in my life. Each time I feel like complaining, I remember how innocent animals had to suffer so I could eat meat. So I shut up, it’s only karma.