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Barcelona bans bullfighting
The Australian ^
| April 07, 2004
| correspondents in Barcelona, Spain
Posted on 04/06/2004 2:47:00 PM PDT by presidio9
BARCELONA today became the first city in Spain to ban bullfighting after a massive campaign by human rights activists against the "cruel practice".
Protests were held in the Catalan capital as councillors took the vote at city hall, with demonstrators waving placards declaring "Barcelona against bullfighting".
Animal rights groups had collected 250,000 signatures from around Europe which they handed in to Barcelona's city hall last month.
The petition was an initiative by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and Spanish animal rights groups, appalled at the killing of dozens of bulls each year at Barcelona's La Monumental bullring.
While bullfighting remains popular in major Spanish cities, including the capital Madrid, it raises relatively scant interest in Catalonia, the region covering north-east Spain.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrights; bullfighting; spain
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:47:00 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Looks like Spain is going down the tubes.
2
posted on
04/06/2004 2:48:06 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Salve!)
To: presidio9
Well at least they did something right...
3
posted on
04/06/2004 2:48:22 PM PDT
by
oolatec
To: presidio9
Now the Activists are going to infiltrate Spain. LOL!
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:49:35 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Keep em Flying and come home safe!)
To: presidio9
"human rights activists"? -- Last time I checked, bulls were not human.
To: presidio9
A bunch of mariposas. Bullfighting is the last manly sport still legal in much of the world. At least Louisiana hasn't banned Cockfighting.
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:51:34 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
("Knowledge is Good" --- Emil Faber, Founder of Faber College)
To: presidio9
It's about time
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:52:29 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( President Bush 3-20-04))
To: All
8
posted on
04/06/2004 2:52:42 PM PDT
by
Support Free Republic
(If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
To: presidio9
Gad! Can a ban on cock fighting be far behind?
};^b)
9
posted on
04/06/2004 2:52:50 PM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: presidio9
What are they going to do with the Plaza de Toros Monumental -- make it a baseball stadium? I had my one and only view of bullfighting there in Sol y Sombra on a Thursday many years ago.
10
posted on
04/06/2004 2:54:26 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: presidio9
Well, instead of killing these animals in at what is seen as, at least a challenge to the animal; they will be herded to the slaughter house.
Besides; don't some countries promote bullfights without the final murderous act?
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:55:58 PM PDT
by
cricket
(The Democrats and the terrorists have a common enemy. . .)
To: presidio9
Good!Bullfights are right up there with dogfights and cockfights as far as I'm concerned.
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:56:24 PM PDT
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen--caviar and cigarettes)
To: presidio9
And so over 4000 years of Mediterranean Civilization comes to an end in Catalunia.
13
posted on
04/06/2004 2:57:17 PM PDT
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Where there is no vision, the people perish.)
To: presidio9
Bullfighting? Who cares?
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:59:29 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: presidio9
Like the Limeys aversion to fox hunting...just don't understand how an entire country suddenly becomes a bunch of poofters.
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posted on
04/06/2004 3:01:22 PM PDT
by
Young Rhino
(http://www.artofdivorce.com)
To: presidio9
Is Spain going down the road of Metrosexuality? First wimping out on islam and now bullfighting...Spain has no manhood left!
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posted on
04/06/2004 3:02:48 PM PDT
by
Paulie
To: Mears
I agree with you about dogfights and cockfights.
Bull fighting, man against beast, dates back at least to ancient Crete and ancient Thera. It evokes a time when men were men and bulls were wild creatures, symbols of strength and virility, more than just a lot of porterhouse waiting to get zapped in a slaughter house.
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posted on
04/06/2004 3:02:55 PM PDT
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Where there is no vision, the people perish.)
To: presidio9
They can still run with the bulls, right?
I drink bulls...Redbulls with vodka. Wide awake & drunk.
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posted on
04/06/2004 3:03:16 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(Never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.)
To: Mears
Gee! Maybe I can be a real man! I will put on my wife's sequined robes, head out into my back pasture and stick a knife in the neck of one of my bulls!
Please clap for me!
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