Bullfighting

Efforts to end cruel bullfighting are ramping up, as people from all corners of the globe recognise that stabbing a frightened animal to death is not “entertainment”.

This week, we’re celebrating an enlightened move that will save a huge number of animals from being abused for entertainment in India.

The United Nations (UN) has stated that being forced to watch the barbaric spectacle is incompatible with children’s rights.

Pamela Anderson has just appealed to the Spanish Senate urging it to reject a bill to protect bullfighting and grant it cultural heritage status.

Thomas Cook and Brittany Ferries have agreed to implement a formal policy against promoting bullfighting and the Running of the Bulls after receiving letters from PETA.

Tens of thousands of you have said “No” to bullfighting and sent messages to the Spanish embassy demanding that the cruel sport not be granted legal protection.

Bulls die bloody deaths in Pamplona. At the ‘running of the bulls’, animals are herded staright to the bullfighting arena. Our striking protest highlights the cruelty.

Yesterday, the Dutch Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution against European Union subsidies which prop up the Spanish bullfighting industry.

Every year, in the city of Pamplona in northern Spain, there’s a massacre.

Charo is something of an authority on Spanish culture – so she knows what she’s talking about when she declares that bullfighting does not belong in modern Spain.