Colombia court will ban bull fighting in 2 years unless Congress decides otherwise
Colombia court will ban bull fighting in 2 years unless Congress decides otherwise
written by Adriaan Alsema February 10, 2017
Colombia’s Constitutional Court gave the country’s Congress a two-year deadline to come up with legislation or it will include the activity to the existing ban on animal cruelty.
The court decision forces Colombia’s chronically inactive Congress to come up with pro-bullfighting legislation, which has increasingly fallen out of grace with the population because of the cruelty inflicted on the animals.
The court had refused to deem the controvserial activity in a bill against animal cruelty last week as it would go against existing legislation that allows bullfighting as long as measures are taken to reduce the suffering of the animals, like drugging them.
Thursday’s ruling criticized the law because “it generates a constitutional difference between animal” as no other animal may be exposed to the cruelty or violence applied in the ancient cultural activity.
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