27 May 2010 2:42 PM:

I haven't posted on this sight for a while, but follow it on a daily basis.  I could not keep quiet any longer after reading this blog. 

We have a holiday home in Spain, mainly because of the wonderful climate, but we searched many other countries before we settled on Spain and it ticked so many other boxes too ie food, language, scenery, friendly people, history, only 21/2 hours from the UK etc etc. 

As far as bull fighting is concerned, it is barbaric - end of.  I am not a vegetarian, I love meat and eat beef, but I  do not agree with making it a 'sport' to torture an animal to death.  I know this is a long-standing tradition in Spain, but just because something is 'tradition', it does not make it right.

Just because I am a foreigner, I still have every right to oppose something that is affecting the vulnerable in this world.  Would you say nothing if you knew a child were being mis-treated, just because you were frightened it was none of your business or 'the way it is done here', wherever you were in the world?

One of my favourite sayings is: 'All it takes for evil to flourish in the world is for good men to stand by and do nothing.'

I don't agree with people who move to a foreign country and expect the laws to be changed to suit their own customs but I don't think that something that involves cruelty can be catagorised that way. 

 

 

 

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