The Catalan Parliament just banned bullfights in the community with a score of 68 for YES, 55 NO and 9 abstentions. Some say that with this resolution the winners are the bulls, who see will no longer be "sacrificed" in a bloody spectacle of bad taste. However, I do not think that those who benefit most are the bulls, but the nationalists.
In Catalonia, the nationalist-leaning parties have long, as in the rest of Spain where there are these political groups, trying to erase everything that smacks of Spain as a nation. Wanted: after all, create a new reality that not consistent with the general sentiment of the population, even to create new-style conflicts around issues where previously none existed, creating unnecessary social unrest and divert the pressure of public opinion on issues that really matter.
is the case with mandatory labeling for all trade in Catalan, with astronomical fines for those who refuse to do so, the law of compulsory dubbing into Catalan, the refusal to allow the drivers placed flags of Spain in their taxis when selecting won the world, and now happens with the bullfight.
Because the real problem is not that Catalonia and the Parliament have discovered abuse in the National Party, not dear readers. What they discovered is that nationalist groups in the arguments of the dignity of the bull, you can get a political victory against the enemy that is Spain and everything it represents. Thus, it is done away with a savage act towards the show, but to prohibit a national symbol as representative of Spain as the bull and the bull. At the end of the day, it was not the first politician who has also proposed to prohibit selling dolls dressed in flamenco at newsagents in Catalonia.
I do not like the bulls, I can never support a bloody spectacle as bullfighting. Therefore, never enter into a square of bulls for a show like that. However, that I do not like does not mean that those who do enjoy the art of bullfighting and accounting practice, can do so in freedom.
If one is an advocate of animal dignity, for ideological consistency should be anyway. That is, if one is against the bulls, should be similarly to the San Fermin festival, ants strip Laza, the "festa do boi Allariz " (feast of the ox) or fights roosters in the Canary Islands, where you looked, previously banned bullfighting. But to go a bit beyond me wonder: Will Catalan nationalists willing, as defenders of the dignity of the bull, also ban "bous embolats " that both have roots in Catalonia?
Also, I have the strange feeling that the vast majority of those who advocate the abolition of the Fiesta with arguments pro-life and respect for the animal, and never be seen in demonstrations and acts against a real murder as is abortion. These ultra-lifers then forget that just passed a law in Spain that can kill a human life that is unable to defend themselves and even above, should be the State who fund and permits.
