There is a social debate going on in Spain over whether the country should ban its trademark bull-fighting and bull-running events. Animal rights groups warn that dozens of bulls are killed annually in Pamplona, at the iconic San Fermin festival.
More than 50 animal rights activists staged a protest against the famous bull-running tradition in the Spanish city of Pamplona, as the San Fermin fiesta is about to begin.
Wearing nothing but black underpants, members of PETA and Spanish animal protection group AnimaNaturalis lay in white silhouettes of ‘murdered’ bulls on a hot cobbled square in the city centre.
Some of them also wore bull horns and had fake lances in their backs – a reference to the weapon which the picador (“picker” in Spanish) pricks the bull with to commence the fight.
The stunt took place one day ahead of the San Fermin festival, an eight-day fiesta famous for its bull-running spectacular, in which the animals chase daredevil participants through the streets to the ring where they are stabbed to death.
The scene of the stunt, which involved 54 protesters from Spain, the UK, the US, Ireland and Australia, was cordoned off with yellow tape, representing the bulls’ “crime scene”.
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@CHIMPSINSOCKS PETA and @AnimaNaturalis are in Pamplona to speak out against the Running of the Bulls spectacle, in which bulls are chased down the streets to the bullring, where they’re tortured to DEATH. #SaveTheBulls pic.twitter.com/cW5uG8wsvr https://t.co/tK0BYMxxG5
— PETA UK (@PETAUK) July 5, 2019
54 bulls will be barbarically slaughtered at this year’s San Fermin Festival. RIGHT NOW PETA and @animanaturalis are preparing to call for an end to the bloodbath. #RunningOfTheBulls #SaveTheBulls pic.twitter.com/bNte3FNNQk
— PETA UK (@PETAUK) July 5, 2019
