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#87945 - 07/27/10 10:10 AM
Re: Thoughts on Banning Bullfights?
[Re: Puna]
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I say let the vote stand, no matter who wins. Catalunya is voting next week, I think, on whether or not to ban bullfights in their region. Afterall, Catalunya is not Spain - everyone knows that. Money usually talks and bullfights create a huge economic industry from the ranchers and land owners to the feed sales to the magazine/news paper sales to the concession stands to the ticket sales themselves. That's hard to deny, especially in times of worldwide economic crisis. I've no doubt a similar industry would surround human, public executions should they be made so. Revive the Gladiators and, If they're in the majority, well, let that vote stand too. My 2 pesetas. Saludos, MadridMan
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#87953 - 07/28/10 05:38 PM
Re: Thoughts on Banning Bullfights?
[Re: Puna]
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Please make your bullfighting-related comments here instead of in the shout box - which only lasts for a short period of time. Here, they're posted fo'-evar!
Saludos, MadridMan
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#87957 - 07/29/10 04:59 PM
Re: Thoughts on Banning Bullfights?
[Re: billy the man]
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I'd doubt that, billy the man, since bulls are not as easily transported/housed as are cocks and dogs, but it would force people to travel to Mexico, for example, to see the bullfights.
And apparently, although the rule/law won't take place in Catalunya until 2012, there's no possibility of appeal.
Saludos, MadridMan
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#87958 - 07/30/10 03:02 AM
Re: Thoughts on Banning Bullfights?
[Re: MadridMan]
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Nearer to "home" , Portugal and France still have bullfights though I believe in one of those countries they don´t actually kill the bull . In South and Central America , Perú has a bullfighting tradition as does Costa Rica .. In Costa Rica the bull is also not killed . The problem is that those against the bullfight play the emotional card and that can be a powerful weapon , even in politics . And as an aside in response to "Catalunya isn´t Spain " .. well they certainly changed their tune when Spain won the world cup ... but that´s for another thread !
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#87961 - 07/30/10 12:37 PM
Re: Thoughts on Banning Bullfights?
[Re: Puna]
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The kill the bull in France, and in Portugal I think they have one or 2 corridas where they kill the bull in the ring, but the majority of portuguese bullfights , they kill the bull afterwards in the corral out of sight of the public . The ban is defintely a political one , Spanish Catalunya sticking its nose up to the rest of Spain . Where as in French Catalunya, they love the bulls there, sticking their nose up to Paris. Bullfighting has been bannned in Catalunya , but they still allow bull festivals including toro de Fuego
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#87962 - 07/31/10 04:23 AM
Re: Thoughts on Banning Bullfights?
[Re: eskimo joe]
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Interesting to see , at the European athletics championships in Barcelona , that the Spanish champion , Marta Dominguéz ( 3000m hurdles ) , paraded the Spanish flag with the tradtional symbol of a toro . The papers have picked up on it ! La Razón , a popular newspaper here , has a big front picture of her with the flag and banner headlines saying "Los Toros Se Rebelan" ( The bulls are rebelling ) . Jejejejejeje
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