Posted on 02/07/2010 10:05:48 PM PST by pissant
MEXICO CITY – Some 250 members of the AnimaNaturalis animal rights group staged a protest half-naked and covered with fake blood against bullfighting and to demand the prohibition of the practice in Mexico on the esplanade of Mexico City’s Fine Arts Palace.
“Youths from all the states of Mexico, half-naked, covered with blood and with ‘banderillas’ sticking in them showed (on Saturday) with this demonstration the suffering that the bulls are subjected to in the bullfights,” Leonora Esquivel, one of the leaders of the organization in Mexico, said on Saturday.
The “banderillas” are the long barbed darts bullfighters stick into the shoulder area of bulls to enrage and tire them out. The protesters had the banderillas attached to their upper backs, presumably with adhesive tape, for instance, not actually sticking into their flesh.
The animal rights defender said that the protest was scheduled to support the bill of capital legislator Cristian Vargas, who proposed prohibiting bullfighting in Mexico, and it was held on the eve of the opening of the bullfighting season – “regrettably the largest in the world” – on Mexico Plaza.
Esquivel said that Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Spain, southern France and Portugal are the countries and regions where the practice, or “sport,” is allowed.
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One of the biggest opponents against bull fighting is probably one of the most staunch Nationalists that I can think of. Not only that, but PhD. Michael “Savage” Weiner is also vehemently against testing on chimpanzees.
So don’t think this type of outrage is only expressed by wacko liberals.
With that said, I myself don’t share the same sentiment as Animal Rights activists.
Anyone with dishpan hands like Weiner and Levin, who cry and carryon about dogs, can’t be trusted
Good. It’s cruel and inhumane.
ROFL
I agree.
You might think it’s funny, but I’m serious.
Thanks.
I wouldn’t go.
I personally agree. But I think it is a decision that should be left up to the Mexicans and the Spaniards. Not our business.
No country with legalised abortion has the right to criticise Bull fighting.
Michael Savage may not be a liberal wacko but he’s still a wacko
I’m not an animal rights activist, in fact I don’t believe animals have rights. However, I think bull fighting is abominable. One doesn’t have to be an animal rights activist to recognize that torturing animals for fun is very, very wrong.
That is way too funny. I want to join this group! My sign will read, “I’m standing right here!”
That was the funny part.
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