Animal rights activists pressure Mexico City congress to ban bullfights
Online News EditorJanuary 4, 2022
Mexico City, Jan 4 (EFE).- A group of anti-bullfighting activists on Tuesday protested on the steps of the Mexico City Congress and threatened to stage a sit-in there until lawmakers bring up for debate a bill to prohibit bullfighting.
The gathering was convened by the First Sit-In for the Abolition of Bullfighting in Mexico, activists for which already planted themselves outside the Federal District’s Legislative Assembly for 44 days in 2017.
Last December the capital legislature’s Animal Welfare Committee approved a decree whereby, if approved, bullfighting would be prohibited.
The bill is aimed at “prohibiting the celebration of events in which bulls, steers or calves are mistreated, tortured or deprived of life.”
The measure establishes that the Mexico City Political Constitution recognizes the protection of animals “as sentient beings” and asserts that, thus, they should receive dignified and respectful treatment.
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(How long can bullfight aficionados continue this barbarism? Isn't it time they all awakened and turned away from worshipping unspeakable cruelty?)
It makes their entire culture look depraved.
