Spanish lawmakers ban bull-spearing at Tordesillas festival

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Spanish lawmakers ban bull-spearing at Tordesillas festival

Updated 2:53 pm, Wednesday, June 8, 2016

MADRID (AP) — Spanish lawmakers have voted to ban the spearing to death of bulls at one of the country's goriest spectacles.

Wednesday's decision by lawmakers in the Castile and Leon region confirms an earlier government decree to prohibit bull killing at September's annual Toro de la Vega festival in the town of Tordesillas 200 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of Madrid. The vote does not affect traditional bullfighting in the region.

During the centuries-old festival, men on horseback traditionally have chased a bull and speared it in front of onlookers. The event has attracted increasing protests in recent years by animal rights activists.

Bullfight and bull spectacle supporters who demonstrated Wednesday outside the regional parliament argued that the ban would violate the cultural heritage of Tordesillas and Spain.

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[KamaAina]

1. Dios mio, can they not adopt Portuguese-style bullfighting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting

In Portugal, the finale consists of a tradition called the pega, where men (forcados) try to grab and hold the bull by its horns when it runs at them.

[dhill926]

2. it's a start...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. They should change traditional bullfights: get rid of picadors.

Without picadors to spear the bulls, let's see how the matadors fare.

[braddy]

4. As a boy I watched a bull fight in Monterrey, Mexico, about 1961(edit to 1956/7) it was probably

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about 1957 or so, the way they tortured and tormented the bulls was shocking, but the locals loved it, the crueler, the better, for them.

[Judi Lynn]

7. It's sadistic. I believe it's evil to torture a helpless, frightened animal with no where to hide.

It says everything about the person who would enjoy it. It says you don't want to ever know him/her.

Too sick. They need to be re-programmed.

Their ancestors also would have enjoyed the Inquisition.

[ailsagirl]

5. Barbaric practice

Sickening

thanks for the post!

[7962]

6. I always root for the bulls. nt

[chernabog]

8. Fucking savages

The whole thing needs to be banned. Along with animal torturing rodeos here in the US.