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Take Action: Bullfighting Is Nothing More Than Cruelty
Bullfighting is animal cruelty, not entertainment!
4/2012: 16,635 signatures sent to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova. Please continue to sign for this important cause if you have not already!
Goal: 30,000
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Progress: 23,357
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
Bullfighting is a traditional European and Latin American sport that involves bulls being baited by humans inside a ring, often resulting in death for the animal and severe injuries for the fighter. While many people still claim bullfighting is a cultural tradition or art form, the reality is that the event is cruel and violent.
Bullfighters do almost anything to taunt the bulls, including hitting them with spiked sticks and stabbing them with lances. The bulls are either killed in the ring or slaughtered after the fight.
This blood sport should not be considered art. Any activity in which an innocent animal suffers or dies in the name of entertainment shouldn't be practiced or promoted.
Write to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) — the organization promoting global peace and collaboration — asking them not to endorse bull fighting as part of cultural heritage.
Dear UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova:
As a concerned animal advocate, I am writing to address the ongoing issue of bull fighting being accepted as a legitimate cultural tradition.
Although bullfighting is seen by many as cultural heritage dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries, I see it as nothing more than pure animal cruelty. The fact is, there are always injuries and casualties in bullfighting. The animal is almost always killed either during the event or after, and the bullfighter often sustains serious injuries.
I cannot see the purpose in an activity that leaves animals and humans bloodied and wounded. And there is simply no excuse for treating an innocent animal like a spectacle for human entertainment.
Please do not recognize bullfighting as a legitimate sport anywhere, regardless of tradition. It's plain cruelty and nothing more.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Catherine Burbury
May 14, 2013
Lytha Lee
May 14, 2013
Lisa Rex
May 14, 2013
Lindsay Boyle
I have hated this since I was 10 yrs. old, and realized what was happening, and I couldn't believe people found this entertaining! Disgusting! I always wanted the bulls to go out and fight the people!! LOL
May 14, 2013
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Simply disgusting.
May 14, 2013
Judy Talley
May 14, 2013
Christina DeHaro
May 14, 2013
Joy Winter
May 14, 2013
catherine jablonska
May 14, 2013
Roland Comte
from France
May 13, 2013
Diana Dupree
May 13, 2013
Briana Camp
May 13, 2013
Rosheni De Alwis
May 13, 2013
Nancy McClelland
May 13, 2013
Rose Ravenscroft
May 13, 2013
Barbara Grifa
May 12, 2013
Aliaska Brozen
Please make bullfighting illegal. It isn't "sport";...it is animal abuse. Pure & simple.
May 12, 2013
Kevin Kenger
May 12, 2013
Stefania Nobile
The Middle Age is behind us. Please join us all in this imperfect era of enlightenment!
May 12, 2013
Nicole Matier
May 12, 2013
irene Kleiner
May 12, 2013
Vickie McClintock
May 12, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Please stop this horrific act of cruelty, it's shocking what the bulls suffer through.
May 12, 2013
Mary Griffin
Please stop this horrific, cruel act.
May 11, 2013
Becky Nelson
May 11, 2013
lynn gray
May 11, 2013
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May 11, 2013
Sam Duncombe
May 11, 2013
Luci Pugh
May 11, 2013
Cheryl Whitley
BARBARICK
May 11, 2013
Kirsty Bingham
May 11, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Please, please stop this barbaric, medieval practice.
May 11, 2013
Caroline Murphy
May 11, 2013
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May 11, 2013
diana duncan
May 11, 2013
John LaRochelle
May 11, 2013
gretchen kost
May 11, 2013
michel raciti
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 10, 2013
Adriene DeZarn
This is Not a sport! Its nothing but blood lust. UNESCO PLEASE DO NOT ENDORSE BULL FIGHTING AS CULTURAL HERITAGE!
May 10, 2013
carletta joséphine
May 10, 2013
patricia abbatiello
May 10, 2013
marty quales
May 10, 2013
Claire Fairchild
May 10, 2013
Donna Baker
The bulls displayed in a ferocious ominus bearing are not the animals that go before the big strong man with a cape, the bulls have been starved, maimed and tortured.....before the fight!
It is horrible and requires immediate cessation.
May 10, 2013
Heather Schmitt
Even as a little girl, I knew this was cruel and very inhumane! Please stop this madness, no more tortuous, do what's ethical, do what's right!
May 10, 2013
Brigitte Bonnet
May 10, 2013
kaai fujitani
May 10, 2013
Michal Lynch
