I CANNOT REPEAT IT OFTEN ENOUGH: THIS TORTURING OF ANIMALS MUST BE STOPPED. IT [BULLFIGHTING] HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE AND IT IS NOT THE TASK OF THE EUROPEAN TAXPAYER TO SUBIDIZE ANIMAL TORTURING!
So please sign and keep sharing and sharing and sharing! Thank you on behalf of the animals!
Dear allies and signatories,
more than 36,000 signatures. Great, keep it up! But still our numbers must increase! Nevertheless, many thanks on behalf of the animals.
Since early July, the bullfighting break caused by Corona has been lifted. That means that after approximately four month of forced break bullfighting can take place again.
Of course, safety distances as a protection against the virus still must be observed.
Allegedly, as a result the breeders alone suffered a loss of about 70 million Euro.
See the report from en24news here:
https://www.en24news.com/en/2020/07/corona-crisis-in-spain-the-end-of-the-bullfighting-break.html
Too bad, again another chance was missed, to finally end this bloody spectacle of torture. Especially since this industry is not able to survive without subsidies. The subsidies are paid by the Spanish state. But if you consider, that Spain is in the second place after France in receiving agricultural subsidies you can count on five fingers, where these subsidies come from and who actually pays them: It is the European Union (EU) respectively the European taxpayer. By the way, Germany is in the third place in receiving subsidies ... In 2016 France received 7.7 billion Euros, Spain 5.7 billion and Germany 5.1 billion. The numbers for 2019 will have been similar. By the way, the smallest portion of it all goes to the small farmers.
Here you will find some information and the graphics about the redistribution on the platform of the European Data Journalism Network (scroll down to see the distribution graphics) :
The EU claims not to pay subsidies for bullfighting:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36270209
This is a claim, which in principle is true. In the respective meetings the EU votes on agricultural subsidies or structural funds as a whole.
But once the voting took place, there are no controls whatsoever of what the respective countries do with the major part of the EU's total budget (our taxes). Instead of the money being handed out according to certain restrictive requirements rather a watering can principle is adopted.
Quotation from „bbc.com“:
The claim: £110m a year of EU agricultural subsidies go to fund Spanish bullfighting.
Reality check verdict: The EU does not give any agricultural money specifically for bullfighting, but that doesn't mean that no EU money reaches the industry. There are no official estimates for how much.
A 2013 report by Green MEPs on bullfighting in Spain found that around €130m (£103m) a year from EU funds was being used to subsidise the industry. The report itself notes that "facts and figures about bullfighting are hard to obtain" and "lines of funding are difficult to track".
Spanish farmers receive direct payments under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to subsidise food production and support sustainable practices. Payments to farmers are grante
The European Commission told BBC News: "To say that some Spanish farmers are receiving payments specifically for breeding fighting bulls or that the EU is somehow pro-bullfighting is disingenuous."
But the EU has no legal power to stop Spanish farmers raising and selling bulls for bullfighting using CAP money - it's a matter for Spanish national law.
End of the quotation
Critics request the EU to base its subsidies much more on how the farmers work, what they cultivate and on the way they keep animals.
You'll find more information here:
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/ita/Notizie/Data-news/Come-funziona-la-piu-grande-macchina-di-ridistribuzione-europea
If the EU did its job properly with its huge apparatus of civil servants, then it would be possible to specifically stop the payments made to bullfight breeders and thus starve out this unspeakable cruelty.
But apparently they are not interested in doing that, rather they prefer to just continue to let things happen, as it happens here:
https://www.stern.de/panorama/video/ins-netz-gegangen/tiergeschichten/stierkaempfe-fuer-kinder--so-grausam-werden-kaelber-in-spanien-getoetet-7043240.html
Just write to the Spanish embassy in Rome, what you think of bullfighting and of financing it with the taxes you pay!
But please, with all the just criticism and anger, stay polite. Thank you!
Here is a small sample text for you to download:
http://download.tiere-brauchen-schutz.de/Stierkampf_Update_Juli_2020_Spanish_Embassy.pdf
It is advisable to add a personal touch, to give more weight to the texts.
This are the contact details of the Spanish Embassy in Rome:
Address:
Largo della Fontanella di Borghese, 19, Rome, 00186
Email:
emb.roma@maec.es
Telephone: (+39) 06 684 0401
Fax: (+39) 06 687 22 56
With best regards
Hans Joachim Richter