Act Now to Ban Bullfighting in Galicia!
Bullfighting is one of the cruelest spectacles there is. During each bullfight, six bulls will be tortured to death for about 20 minutes. A team of dressed-up bullfighters will taunt them to exhaustion with capes, and stab them with lances, harpooned sticks, swords, and daggers until all bulls end up dying an agonising death — part of a ritualised bloody spectacle which should only be the stuff of horror movies. And yet, despite being banned in most countries in the world, bullfighting still takes place in nine countries, among them Spain — with its 17 autonomic regions. However, you can help to change this! Take action against bullfighting today! Although bullfighting became very popular in Spain in the 18th century and was then spread through Latin America by the Spanish colonizers, its popularity has been in decline in the last few decades. Several regions of Spain, such as the Canary Islands and Catalonia, have already banned traditional bullfights in bullrings, and other regions may be closer to doing the same. One of them is Galicia, the autonomous region of northwest Spain, just above Portugal, and you can help to stop bullfighting there. Spain is formed by several autonomic regions with their own governments which have the power to regulate spectacles such as bullfighting, so the anti-bullfighting movement has been trying to ban bullfighting in each of them, one at a time (as a national ban is currently very unlikely). In Galicia, where people speak a different language closer to Portuguese, the campaign has advanced greatly, as currently there is only one city with an active bullring, Pontevedra, which only stages two bullfights in an annual festival (in 2015, bullfights ended in A Coruña, the capital of Galicia, as the City Council’s subsidies stopped). Bullfighting has never been part of the Galician culture, and most Galicians do not want it. A 2019 survey run by the groups Galicia Mellor Sen Touradas and the Franz Weber Foundation showed that 93% of those Galician surveyed opposed bullfighting. The official statistics for the years 2021-22 compiled by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain show that the autonomous community in Spain with the least interest in bullfighting is Galicia, with 79.8% of the population showing little or no interest. Now is the time to add international pressure and contact the government of Galicia (Xunta de Galicia), asking for a total ban. Rubén Pérez, coordinator of the Galician animal protection group Galicia, Mellor Sen Touradas (Galicia better without bullfights) said to Vegan FTA, "Galicia is at a very important moment. In the last decade, we have managed to bring down bullfights in cities like A Coruña, but we have also stopped the reproduction of minor festivities in less populated towns. International pressure is essential to make the authorities of Galicia change their mind." Sign the Petition to ban bullfighting in Galicia! To help to ban the cruel spectacle of bullfighting in Galicia, please sign this petition directed to the Xunta de Galicia, asking for a total ban on bullfighting. The petition will be delivered to the President of Galicia (currently Alfonso Rueda) in the Galician language. Here is the English translation of the letter: Your Excellency President of the Xunta de Galicia, Due to the undisputed great suffering caused to bulls during bullfights, I respectfully request you do anything in your power to ban bullfighting in any of its forms in the territory of Galicia. I am aware that bullfighting does not really form an integral part of Galician culture, and most Galicians are opposed to it, as several polls have shown. The fact that, one by one, Galician municipalities have abandoned this cruel practice is a testimony to this. Now that there are only a few bullfights staged every year in the entire region would be time to ban forever this form of animal torture that has no place in the 21st century. There could be no justification, cultural or artistic, to cause pain and death to animals such as bulls, let alone done for "entertainment" in a public bloody spectacle. We know that Galicia is a nation with a voice, which does not have to blindly follow any anachronic tradition imposed from the outside, so it is time to use this voice proudly and echo what most Galicians, and most people from the international community, think: Galicia would be much better without bullfighting. Please ban bullfighting in Galicia, as letting this practice die out on its own is too slow and causes unnecessary suffering. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, {Your Name] Thank you for taking action for the animals by signing this petition! Please stay tuned for updates!
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