Target: Janusz Wojciechowski, Commissioner of Agriculture for European Commission
Goal: Endorse ban on subsidization of bull-breeding for bullfighting purposes.
The European Union (EU) is funding one of the most controversial affronts to animal welfare. An estimated 1,000 farms across the continent breed bulls for the purpose of bullfighting. Despite passing a law about seven years ago barring such funding, the EU is giving millions in subsides to these farms that breed animal cruelty.
The EU has a common agricultural policy (CAP) that does provide subsidies to the agricultural sector. In 2015, though, the group enacted an initiative that would ban subsidies “for the financing of lethal bullfighting activities.” Soon, though, pressures from special interests would compel these politicians to scrap the ban. A subsequent attempt to renew it a few years later also fell short.
In the interim, countless bulls have endured horrific goring injuries, and many have died. Sign the petition below to demand the EU stop its gutless reversal and finally enforce this life-saving ban.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Commissioner Wojciechowski,
Every year, a quarter of a million bulls endure agonizing deaths through the supposed sport of bullfighting. As these animals bleed, the aging industry responsible for their torment continues to bleed money. Why is the European Union still financially propping up an inhumane relic far past its expiration date?
In 2015, this entity agreed to ban the subsidization of bull-breeding under CAP. Then, the EU mystifyingly reversed this decision. And in 2020, it resisted renewed calls for a ban. The EU cannot make lofty proclamations about animal welfare when it is still funding one of the world’s most barbaric forms of animal cruelty.
Please finally do what should have been done years ago. Stop subsidizing bullfighting and stop enabling animal cruelty.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Marko Obrvan
What kind of human likes to watch another being tortured to death? The answer is those lacking in compassion and empathy and prone to sociopathic tendencies. (And it starts with the children who are given swords to take turns stabbing a baby bull all while he screams and cries out for his mother as he dies a prolonged horrific death.) It is such a disgusting hideous horrific unspeakable sociopathic practice. We humans are monsters when it comes to the other animals on this planet. We have turned this planet into a giant torture/death chamber for the nonhumans.
So true and very sad I agree with you completely, also many humans are no better to their fellow humans either, it’s all just wrong.
Actually, it’s a cultural thing : meat-munching culture, gun culture, hunting culture and animal-abuse culture …. they all come together.
Wrong. Just because one eats meat, owns guns and/or hunts does NOT make them ok with animal abuse. I am a prime example. Do not say things that show your uneducated opinion.
Agree with you wholeheartedly Debra!
Janusz Wojciechowski, Commissioner of Agriculture for European Commission
I have NEVER and will NEVER visit Spain for this reason. Now I read that the whole EU has blood on its hands. THIS IS DISGUSTING TO NO END!!
HOW HOW HOW DO YOU ENDORSE, CONDONE AND WATCH THESE ATTACKS ON AN ANIMAL THAT HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN THE CHANCE TO MAKE A DECISION FOR HIMSELF? AND IF THE BULLS WERE GIVEN A CHOICE, YOU CAN BE DAMNED SURE THAT THEY WOULD CHOOSE RESOUNDINGLY NO!!!!
PUT AN END TO THIS IMMEDIATELY, TO NO LONGER STAIN YOUR HISTORY WITH THESE VICIOUS DISPLAYS OF MURDER!!! IF YOU DON’T I HOPE YOU TURN TO BE CHASED IN THE BULL RIING COMES NEXT!!
ANIMAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATIONS WHY HAVE YOU NOT SHUT THESE PLACES DOWN?????
TO ALL THIS INVOLVED…I HOPE THE TIMES COMES WHEN ALL THE BULLS STAMPEDE YOU TO DEATH!
They like violence & blood shed so much, then why don’t they have human vs human in the same manner? It’s because they are all cowards in Spain. At least both opponents would be armed.
Barbaric
STOP ALL BULL FIGHTING IMMEDIATELY!!! Make ALL MATADORS fight in an arena to their deaths in front of people insteadvof GOD’S ANIMALS!!!!!!
All these people think this is good entertaining fun?????!!!! People are sick and evil. I thought we had climbed out of the dark ages years ago?????
Matadors should fight EACH OTHER with blood-thirsty spectators watching! Leave the bulls out of this!
What is this, the dark age? The cave men treated animals better than this! This heinous “sport” needs to end now!! It’s disgusting to think that children are being taught that this barbaric activity is acceptable. This is why I will never visit Spain or any country that still participated in bullfighting!
Why can’t these people get PROPER jobs and earn PROPER wages/salaries (like the rest of us do) instead of horrifically abusing dumb animals (who can’t fight back) for money? What a bunch of cruel sicko Nazis you Europeans have become. Or perhaps you have just never evolved from your brutish ancestors from past centuries?
Couldn’t have said it any better!!
End this barbaric garbage now!
Goes to show you just how evil Government entities are. Only a monster would fund such evil events like bullfighting.
I am totally disgusted to find out this is still happening. I gave up drinking all Pepsi and Pepsi products over the last 20 or more years now (and I originally preferred Pepsi over Coke). I have not touched any of their products since then) when I found out they were supporting this cruel “so called” sport of bull fighting and killing of these poor bulls.
Find out the companies and sponsors who and support this. It is about time already to end the breeding, abuse, and brutal killing of these magnificent animals. Stop This And severely Fine And Prosecute The People Who Are Perpetuating This Brutal And Barbaric Activity. Pathetic!
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – When bullfighting is a national sport, what kind of “greatness” do we see in that country? Yes, all we see is that the nation is “great” in animal cruelty. Actually almost everything Spain and other European countries have touched has shed blood.
All animals learn best through pain, and for us humans pain often comes psychologically (as against physically), and shame works very effectively as a tool to correct our wrongdoings.
So, let’s shame Spain, Portugal, France and some countries in South America, so that their national pride is damaged and their leaders and public alike are made to rethink what they take for granted, well, unless they are shameless.
These stupid fucked up selfish psychopaths in control of this world need to be voted OUT! They are nothing but DEVILS!!!! The world is going backwards when it comes to spectacles of Animal torture & murdering for entertainment. This world is OVER-RUN WITH BLOOD THIRSTY FUCKING EVIL MONSTERS. They are the ones that should be tortured to death in public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bull breeding & bullfighting must be made illegal all over the world. It is cruel and barbaric and must be stopped
Any worm who supports this horrific, heartless, inhumane shit is a repulsive cunt.
Not necessary to injure bulls at all they’re mother nature’s pets give them back
This is pure EVIL!!!
WE SHOULD PUT AN END TO ALL BULLFIGHTING — IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!
THIS PEOPLE ARE SICK AND BARBARIC! They are uncivilized. They should be punished!!!