Posted on 09/24/2025 5:22:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
THE Animalist Party, or PACMA, as it is known in Spain, held a peaceful protest in the heart of Madrid on Saturday, September 20 at 5:30pm in a national demonstration against bullfighting, held annually in the city. While reports about the number of attendees are conflicting – PACMA stated there were more than 10,000 protestors, while the Government Delegation stated there were some 1,200 – a large number of people showed up in the picturesque Sol neighbourhood of Madrid, donning green scarves to protest Spain’s controversial cultural staple.
The demonstration, which is part of PACMA’s “Abolition Mission,” marched through some of the main streets in the centre of the city, passing Carrera de San Jerónimo, Plaza de las Cortes, Paseo del Prado, the Cibeles Fountain, Calle de Alcalá, and finally returning to Sol. According to PACMA, the protest was completed peacefully and without incident.
Said PACMA representatives, “The Spanish society wants to advance to a future free of animal abuse and without bull runs, and we showed that once again in Puerta del Sol.”
Bullfighting, a physical contest which involves subduing, immobilising, or killing a bull, has been a tradition in Spain for centuries, and is one of the cultural and traditional aspects the country is best known for on a global scale. Despite controversy, it is legal in most parts of the country and receives packed stands of spectators year after year, though some regions have attempted to ban it on the grounds of animal abuse.
Notwithstanding, the practice is receiving increased amounts of backlash year on year. Whether Saturday’s Sol protest saw 1,000 attendees marching or 10,000, PACMA’s message remains the same: a large part of Spanish society is beginning to reject the long-standing tradition.
“We won’t stop until there’s abolition,” stated PACMA firmly on an Instagram post.
I’m not Spanish, so what I think doesn’t really matter. But I hope they eventually do away with bullfighting.
Saw a bullfight while we were in Mexico. Gross...
Note: The bull always dies. Why not just shoot it instead of making sure it suffers.
PACMA/pachyamama
who are we to judge cultural diversity ?
It isn’t just that. They often do things to the bull to disorient and weaken it. The whole thing is inhumane.
Finally, something worth protesting.
I thought the bullfighter does sometimes?
By sheer Nature and design, it’s never a fair fight. If the bullfighter gets gored, it’s a fluke.
That's also why the bull usually ends up dead.
Ferruccio Lamborghini's sign of the Zodiac was the Taurus, the bull. Which is why most Lamborghini automobiles are named after breeds of fighting bulls or something to do with bullfighting. Miura, Gallardo*, Urraco, Jarama, Jalpa, Aventador, etc, were breeds of fighting bull or regions famed for their fighting bulls. Isolero was an individual bull of the Miura breed that killed a bullfighter. Murciélago was a Miura bull that survived 24 wounds.
The name of the Countach is an adaptation on an expression of surprise used in Lamborghini's native Piedmont region (think Homer Simpson's "DOH!" only in Italian), which he allegedly uttered the first time he saw the mock-up of the car. But its successor, the Diablo, also was named after an individual fighting bull that obviously had a very intimidating reputation.
Espada is Spanish for sword, the matador's instrument of death.
* In at least one cRap 'song,' the cRapper brags about his Lamborghini "guy-lar-doh" apparently unaware that gallardo is a Spanish word (it means 'dashing') so it's properly pronounced "guy-yard-doh."
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