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It is often recommended
that one should avoid visiting countries in which bullfighting takes place.
But would you really want to stay always in your own country? And if not, where
would you go? And, in any case, you would be boycotting, not only
the countries, but those people in those countries who are fighting to put and
end to this cruel "sport". Opinion polls show that most
people - even in those countries - are against bullfighting. You cannot
let them down!
Bullfights are held in more than
60 French towns. The bulls are first tormented, then finally killed.
You can go to these towns and join the other demonstrators, and express your
views peacefully to
the authorities and the public.
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It is a fact that even in your own country, the bullfighting lobby
works to cultivate a positive image and to influence the way this
barbaric practice is reported on the television and in the newspapers. The
usual strategy is to promote it as a part of national culture and
tradition. And at the same time
time, it is being further glamorized by trade and industry, which
frequently use bullfight scenes in both advertising and product design.
And then again,
in certain "traditional" events, this Iberian practice creeps
in.
If you live in a town which is twinned with a French town where
bullfighting takes place, we appeal to you to use your influence, by way
of your twin town, to make the people aware of the barbarity which is
being
practised in their own home town.
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By the use of search engines you can inform yourself thoroughly about
bullfighting. You will be surprised by the audacity of these tormentors who
represent bullfighting as a cultural heritage of manhood. However, several
websites unmask bullfighting as cultural infamy and give you the opportunity to
do something against it.
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Many artists like to portray the torero, with his vain macho gesture, facing
the attacking bull. These pictures are the very opposite of the brutal reality.
You hardly ever see pictures of the suffering animals. We ask all artists to
depict in their works of art the bloody reality of bullfighting and to expose
this cruel spectacle as a shameful scandal. A good example is the flamenco
dancer Alya Al-Kanani from Brunswick, Germany, who imitated impressively
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