SPAIN’S Constitutional Court has annulled Balearic animal-welfare legislation, commonly referred to as the bull’s law.
The court has accepted the appeal against the legislation by the Madrid government, which was first filed when the Partido Popular were still in power.
The law, in the court’s view, invades state competencies with respect to protecting bullfighting as a national cultural institution.
Balearic measures contained provisions which were intended to make the holding of bullfights untenable, and forbidded the killing of bulls.
Although regional governments have the authority to regulate agriculture and livestock policies, they are obliged to safeguard bullfighting.
Ah yes. The “National Cultural Heritage” argument. Like slavery, and garrotting, and wife-beating, and executing Communists ?
What a terrible step backwards for animals rights in Spain. Cruelty is not culture it is sickening evil.
It;s a sad day when a country deems the torture and killing of animals is a) culture and b) something to be treasured.
Torturing bulls…a cultural institution, ya, says a lot for the Spanish…
I’m with you, Tony Wagstaff & Felipe, and every civilised human on the planet.