Spanish islands approve booze-free and bloodless bullfights
Source: Associated Press
Updated 12:39 pm, Monday, July 24, 2017
MADRID (AP) — Bullfights in Spain's Balearic Islands will be shorter, bloodless and only for adults under new regulations passed Monday that also ban alcoholic beverages in the bullring.
A majority of left-wing lawmakers in the islands' regional parliament approved the so-called "Balearic-style bullfighting" bill, which also requires anti-doping tests for both matadors and bulls.
The time that each bull spends in the ring should be limited to 10 minutes and each bullfight last for 30 minutes maximum, says the new law, effectively reducing from six to three the number of bulls that are traditionally pitted against matadors at each event.
Conservative deputies who opposed the law said bullfight promoters would find it virtually impossible to hold any under the new restrictions.
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