Subject: THE BULL'S EYE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
 Date: May 17, 2006 5:49:43 PM GMT+01:00
To: miguel.moutinho@animal.org.pt


THE BULL'S EYE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Here - in this bullring - bullfights will be held. Here the audience will applaud the people who slowly and deliberately inflict anger, pain and subsequent death on an animal.
Why can that happen in this European country?
If I would step into a Dutch meadow and perform the traditional bullfight on a bull, I would be lynched - or if the police is fast - arrested for sadistic acts inflicted on an animal. You are a sadist if you enjoy inflicting pain. Sadism is a certified mental disorder. So bullfights are a very sick tradition.
And still the European Union allows such traditions.

I want you to know that this is one of the reasons why many Dutchmen voted against the European Constitution.

If EU Constitution Art III-121 would concern human rights there would be no leeway for culturally based violence against people. It is the spirit of this article to protect animals. However, the letter of this article condones every animal abuse in the name of "cultural heritage". The bulls cannot vote against this crippled law, so they depend on us to fight the injustice of it. It would grace the EU if it would for once look through a bull’s eyes.

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