Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton, animal rights activist and vegan for years has been asking the Spanish government to close bullfighting schools.
Stop children learning to torture bulls to death in bullfights. Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton, animal rights activist and vegan for years has been asking the Spanish government to close bullfighting schools. All this happens while Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid even proposes a beneficial bullfight to pay homage and support to health workers who are at the forefront of the coronavirus emergency in Spain. After having ensured financial support for the bullfighters, now the president is relaunching with a show for 12 October. But doctors and nurses counter: "We don't want bullfighting, we want a contract."
“Children learn to torture and kill bulls at the age of 14. We ask the Spanish Minister of Education to immediately close the bullfighter schools ”, writes the pilot on his social networks inviting you to sign the petition launched by PETA.
Hamilton defines schools as 'disgusting', because in fact that is where disrespect for animals begins. Children are trained to become bullfighters who, during the bullfight, will then spear and torture their victim. With over 16 million followers, the six-time Formula 1 world champion driver shared a video from PETA showing all the horror behind these shows that were blocked during the lockdown, but at the same time ranchers had threatened to take the bulls to slaughter. So while some Spanish cities, such as Madrid, have said goodbye to bullfights forever, in many others this 'tradition' continues to make dizzying numbers.
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And as Hamilton himself denounces, it starts from childhood in schools that are subsidized by the government that defends the shows in the name of a meaningless tradition. Children can watch the bullfights and from 14 years old they can already enter the school. According to PETA, bullfighting violates the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as it indoctrinates boys and girls into acts of violence.
“For a long time bullfights have been referred to as 'culture'. This violent tradition is responsible for the deaths of countless bulls each year, ”PETA writes in the video.
Animals kept in terrible conditions, often stuffed with tranquilizers during training and then left without water and food before the shows to infuriate them.
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"A barbaric sport", continues the animal rights organization that releases a video recorded by the Spanish animal rights party against animal abuse in which a young apprentice bullfighter is seen attacking a calf that has not yet been weaned and does not even have horns.
"All bullfights are horrible to watch, but it is especially horrifying to see this young, terrified animal, stagger as he is repeatedly stabbed and bleeds from multiple wounds, before he falls to the ground and his ears are cut off," the petition says.
And Lewis Hamilton, who has been embracing animal rights and environmental campaigns for years, is also convinced of this, convinced that bullfights are extremely violent and cruel events against animals and encouraging children to torment and kill any living being is deeply wrong.
According to the United Nations: "The participation of children and adolescents in bullfighting activities constitutes a serious violation of the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, since they are indoctrinated for a violent act".
And yet, right now, the possibility of a charitable bullfight on 12 October (Hispanic day) is being discussed as a tribute to health personnel and their contribution during the pandemic. Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the mayor of Madrid are talking to heal a sector bent by the crisis that has been at the center of international controversies for years. But the doctors, nurses and operators are not there and take to the streets. 'I don't want a bullfight, I want a contract', they cry peacefully in several Spanish cities. 'We feel' forgotten, insulted and ignored and nobody cares about bullfighting '.
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