No more bullfighting in Catalonia
Catalan Parliament has finally approved to ban bullfighting in Catalonia. This decision has attracted much foreign media attention and surprise for its supposed meaning coming from a country which is now inside the Spanish state. Even though it was popular in Catalonia many decades ago and Barcelona even had at one point 3 bullfighting rings those have progressively closed as people lost interest and now there’s only one left open. Nowadays bullfighting “shows” in Barcelona are practically only attended by tourists brought in for the show from nearby towns, mistakenly thinking they’re watching a popular local tradition.
The bullfighting ban was promoted by an animal rights association and it was decided that this time Catalan deputies would have freedom to vote, since every other time they must vote according to the party’s guidelines and therefore the pro bullfighting Spanish lobbies have been pressuring very strongly each deputy whose vote wasn’t clear.
The Spanish have taken this ban as an offense, even though the Canary Islands banned it back in 1991, since they see this as an attack to their fragile national identity, based in symbols such as bullfighting, especially if this initiative comes from Catalonia, a country where latest polls show that a majority of people want independence and where a few days ago more than a million people took the streets of Barcelona to defend Catalonia’s right to regain its independence.
On the other hand, most people in Catalonia just see this ban as a normal and logical step towards a more civilised society where animal torture has no space in public shows. The ban will come into full effect in 2012 and no more bullfights will be allowed
Related: Catalonia will soon vote to ban bullfighting
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Bullfighting has its origins in the Roman gladiator sports. I’m surprised it has lasted this long anywhere in the world really.
Thanks Alex totally agree it is completely out of place in the 21st century
Congratulations, Catalonia! To be amused by hurting and killing is the token of a decadent culture. When will the rest of Spain follow suit?
Thanks Kari!
The prohibition of the bulls in Parliament will not do much as the Constitutional Court is there to remind us that the Catalan parliament is useless and is not above them. They like bullfights and they will be charged to fix it! If not, at the time!
We are not a state yet and what has said the Catalan parliament does not matter! What today was a hoax!
We need to vote parties who want the freedom of Catalonia and nothing else!
Hurray Catalonia State!
Vicenç, the Catalonia I know is on planet Earth. Please give a short warning when you’re about to enter parallel universes.
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