Many thanks to Graham Keeley for today’s article regarding the decline of the bullfighting industry (“Debt in the afternoon: bullfighting staggers into crisis”). It reveals that the industry, behind the all the PR spin, is facing huge financial problems and will eventually collapse.
Bullfighting is nothing more than a cruel pastime that is indeed unpopular among Spaniards – but it is also a red rag to tourists. Eighty-nine per cent of the British citizens would never visit a bullfight while on holiday (ComRes poll commissioned by the League Against Cruel Sports, April 2008).
We have to ask ourselves why this spectacle is kept alive through millions of EU subsidies financed by the taxpayer.
Monday 19 May 2008
That's the last bus gone...
Taken on Waterloo Bridge on a Sunday night in November 2007. Won third place in the Guardian weekend photo competition inpictures (17th May 2008).
Thursday 8 May 2008
Comments on "Matador meets his match in bullring" in The Daily Telegraph 7th May 2008
Looking at the spectacular photos on page 16 of today’s Telegraph (Matador meets his match in bullring) one may get the idea that bullfighting is an acrobatic performance or a fair encounter between man and bull. This is not the case. The bull has no chance of “winning” - even if as shown in the photos it gores the matador. The bull dies after a long and very painful struggle. The main reason why the pictured matador was not severely injured is that the bull was drugged, had its horns shaved which severely damaged its sense of orientation and had its neck muscles cut which made it impossible to raise its head.
Bullfighting is nothing more than a cruel past time that is unpopular among Spaniards and tourists. Seventy-two per cent of Spaniards have no interest in bullfighting according to a 2006 Gallup poll. Consequently the national station RTVE stopped live broadcasts of bullfights last August. Eighty-nine per cent of the British citizens would never visit a bullfight while on holiday (ComRes poll commissioned by the League Against Cruel Sports, April 2008).
Bullfighting remains a cruel and unnecessary spectacle that has no place in a modern society. Sign the world wide pledge never to visit bullfighting.
Sunday 4 May 2008
Thursday 1 May 2008
Todesstrafe - aussnahmsweise eine positive Notiz
Selten genug, dass es etwas Positives über die Todesstrafe zu berichten gibt. Da es aber nun der Fall ist:4. TODESSTRAFE WELTWEIT AUF DEM RÜCKZUG
Im Jahr 2007 hat ai 1.252 Hinrichtungen in 24 Ländern dokumentiert.
Gegen mindestens 3.347 Menschen in 51 Ländern wurde ein Todesurteil
ausgesprochen. "Das Gros der Hinrichtungen geht auf das Konto einer
Handvoll Staaten, und China 'gewinnt' diese makabre Disziplin auch im
Jahr vor den Olympischen Spielen", sagte Oliver Hendrich von ai zur
Veröffentlichung der Todesstrafenstatistik für 2007.
http://www2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/windexde/AR2008016
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