ACTION 4 Animals: Bull Fighting is not Culture, it is Cruelty

How can people get pleasure out of hacking up a bull as it slowly, painfully bleeds to death? What is it with men with no conscience who think it makes them seem macho by killing animals in an arena, and then trying to justify it by calling it "part of our heritage and culture? ~ Colin Wallace, Web Designer

Bullfighting is one of the most abhorrent forms of animal abuse for entertainment still in existence - the bloody spectacle is responsible for the deaths of up to 250,000 animals worldwide every year.

Right now, supporters of bullfighting are starting the process to have this cruelty protected by having their 'sport' listed as a form of cultural heritage. Politicians in both France and Tordesillas in Spain have voted on this issue recently.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) preserves many expressions of genuine Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Please let UNESCO know that you would never support a move to accept bullfighting, or any other act of animal cruelty, as a practice worthy of Intangible Cultural Heritage - bullfighting is cruelty, not culture.
Any successful listing of this despicable activity by UNESCO would not only give a veneer of respectability to animal cruelty for public entertainment, but it would also mean that subsidies may be made available to financially safeguard the future of bullfighting.

Please speak out today - sign our letter to UNESCO now.