The Portuguese animal protection organization ANIMAL has started a citizens’ initiative against national subsidies for bullfighting. Every year, several Portuguese local authorities provide direct and indirect subsidies to bullfighting events. Local subsidies are provided to bullfighting every year. ANIMAL has included all subsidies per municipality in a report, which is regularly updated with the most current information. The…
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Victory! Colombian congress prohibits bullfighting in the country!
The end of bullfighting has arrived throughout Colombia. After months of intense work by the Colombia Sin Toreo coalition in both chambers of Congress, the bill that puts an end to bullfighting, corralejas and all cruel entertainment with animals was approved by a majority vote. After the fourth debate, which had been postponed for several…
Majority of people in European bullfighting countries against the harmful tradition
The majority of people in Spain, France and Portugal is against bullfighting and think the harmful tradition causes too much suffering to bulls, a survey shows. The survey among 7500 people carried out by Ipsos I&O Public on behalf of the Dutch animal protection Ngo CAS International shows furthermore that a great majority of the…
Manifesto against bullfighting
In the run-up to the European elections on June 6, the International Anti-Bullfighting Network together with some European members of the Network, has drawn up a manifesto against bullfighting. We call on candidate members of the European Parliament to sign the manifesto and to speak out against bullfighting. Bullfighting still takes place in 8 countries,…
15th International Summit against Bullfighting in Madrid
On November 25 and 26, the 15th International Summit against Bullfighting took place. This time, the International Anti-Bullfighting Network held its annual conference in the largest bullfighting country of Europe: Spain. The summit was again a great success. Representatives of the eight bullfighting countries and other countries traveled to the municipality of Rivas VaciaMadrid – near the…