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
This tradition is so barbaric & must stop the torturing & killing of theses gorgeous animals! How anyone can sit watching it & call it entertainment is sick!
Shawn Young
Bull fighting is barbaric. No sport for the bull at all. It must be stopped.
STOP this NOW!!! There is absolutely no sense in this horrific cruelty!
STOP THIS NOW!!!
HORRIBLE ANDCRUEL!!!!!! SHOULD HAVE BEEN BANNED YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!
I question the morals of anyone who sees this as anything other than barbarism.
Absolutely horrific! How is this entertainment!?!? This is abuse, torture, violent brutality that has no place in any society! It must stop and these innocent lives must be spared from such violent deaths!!
How can anyone enjoy seeing an animal suffering and dying caused by humans for their entertainment ? What is so, so difficult to believe is that the French government supports this barbaric inhumane animal cruelty.
Barbaric activity enjoyed by ignorant savages. I bet if you stuck these stupid, bloodthirsty assholes with swords and lances they wouldn’t enjoy such a disgusting ritual.
These BASTARDS ARE SO INSANE AND CRUEL THAT THEY SHOUD BE DEAD THE MOS HORRIBLE DEAD POSIBLE!!!
You have to have a screw loose to enjoy watching blatant cruelty. It turns my stomach. Hey, I have an idea, how about we throw the people who enjoy watching this nightmare, into the ring and let them battle to the death with each other. The bulls can watch and laugh at them.
Can’t believe this stupid időt thing called sport still exist!!!??? Remember when the swedish Adult star, Amina, jumped in one Spanish arena years ago and by that they took action. Thought időt countries like French etc didn’t exist anymore.. Everybody responsible including the audience should get the same treatment like this poor Bulls..
People who engage in bullfighting are evil, plain and simple. It’s not a cultural thing- cruelty is cruelty no matter where you live. Torturing and killing bulls for sport reminds me of Ancient Rome, and we know how that turned out. Cruelty to animals is linked to mental illness- it’s been documented in hundreds, if not thousands, of studies. Is this what our world is coming to? A planet full of psychos?
Enough with these few disgusting cowards getting off watching pain and torture, secretly hopping the stupid matador will get gored by the bull. 90% of french population is revulsed by bull fighting, so France is no democracy.
Go on youtube and see in the comments how people cheer when the matador gets gored. Everything is so very wrong in this, it’s evil and leads people to hatred. THIS HAS TO STOP NOW.
How dare these lame-ass cowards claim to be “macho”, when this is among the most cowardly, DISGUSTING animal tortures on the planet???? MACHO?????? NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM REALITY!!!!!! And what is wrong with the women in this culture who would put up with this behavior from countrymen?????
CONSUMATE COWARDS!!!!!! LIKE TO INVITE ONE OF THEM TO JERSEY CITY AND WE’LL SEE HOW THEIR ‘MACHO’ SURVIVES!! DISGUSTING!!!!
IN 2021 THESE COWARDS ARE STILL CLAIMING TO BE ‘MACHO’!!! WHAT A JOKE!!!!! HARD TO BE MORE DICKLESS!!!
STOP ALL THIS ANIMAL CRUELTY TOWARDS ALL BULLS IMMEDIATELY!! THIS CRUEL IDIOTS NEED TO EXPERIENCE THIS EXACT TORTURE AS THESE BULLS HAVE!!! STOP THIS TORTURE IMMEDIATELY!!!!
This should have been stopped a long time ago. I’ll never understand how watching an animal be tortured to death is considered a sport. This really is not about local customs, it’s about legalized animal cruelty and murder of an innocent animal.