The Irish Council Against Blood Sports
has this week (August 26, 2008)
launched
Ban Bullfighting TV
an online channel with a continuous stream of anti-bullfighting
videos and action alerts.
We
hope this will help educate more people about the cruelty involved
and encourage them to join the campaign against
bullfighting.
You
can watch
Ban Bullfighting TV
on our MySpace page -
http://www.myspace.com/banbloodsports
- or by clicking on Videos at
www.banbloodsports.com
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Support bullfight ban
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm8NJYEuTYs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5we4eBEdLgQ
Subject: Support bullfight
ban
Date: June 27, 2007
To: ciliaflores@an.gob.ve
Dear Mrs
Flores,
Action Against
Poisoning fights animal poisoning in particular and supports animal
protection efforts in general.
We
have a special interest in the relation between animal abuse,
mental health and social stability as we noted that animal cruelty
like bullfighting facilitates violence towards people. Senseless
violence is a contemporary mental health and public order problem.
It is clear that no Mayor wants his citizens beating up innocent
people as part of their “having fun” going out in his
city.
In
our view the bullfight is the cruellest form of animal abuse as it
is the only “game” we know with the sole purpose of death by
torture.
We
cannot find a shred of justification for the torture of an animal
that has not asked to be part of the game, that has been tampered
with to reduce the remotest chance to win and that has no escape
from the bullring.
We
emphasize the point that bullfights – or any other combination of
festivities and killing - breeds a notion that killing for fun is
socially acceptable or even heroic.
The ritual
performance of the acts and their sequence matches the definition
of sadism: the infliction of pain for the pleasure of
it.
Sadism is a certified
mental disorder. A healthy society does not want to have, let alone
breed, sadists amongst its citizens.
As
participants of the International Anti-Bullfighting Summit in
Lisbon on 18-19 May we were informed on the situation in Venezuela.
We understood that Venezuela is progressing towards a possible ban
on bullfights.
Especially for that
reason we voted as Dutch citizens against the draft EU Constitution
as its article III-121 condones animal abuse under the label of
religious or cultural traditions.
Like for African,
Indian or Maori war dances we respect the bullfight preservation of
the traditional display of costumes, music, dancing and stabbing
but please leave the bulls out of it. We also see a great future
for monumental bullrings for operas, concerts and
plays.
However, a society
that treasures traditional bullfights – or any other animal cruelty
- as cultural heritage has a long way to go towards real
civilization.
As
Venezuelan Member of Congress who values a non-violent society and
respect for life, we urge you to ban bullfights to the benefit of
public as well as animal welfare.
A
ban would be a keystone contribution to the global abolition of
animal abuse in general and the cruelest abuse in
particular.
We look forward to
your reaction.
With kind
regards,
Action Against Poisoning
