Animal rights group pushes for Spanish bull run ban

[Playinghardball]

Animal welfare group Vier Pfoten (Four Paws) urged Spanish authorities Friday to ban the famous Pamplona bull run, which left 22 people injured and 42 bulls dead this week.

“Four Paws is demanding an immediate break with this cruel tradition, in which many people get hurt and many bulls suffer a painful death every year,” the international organisation said in a statement on its Bulgarian website.

“This kind of entertainment has nothing to do with culture and should be abolished,” Vier Pfoten campaign director Gabriel Paun added.

The run — which sees bulls rushed along Pamplona’s streets and then forced to fight in the arena during the San Fermin festival — was a form of cruelty against animals that would be punishable with prison in other European countries, he noted.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/13/animal-rights-group-pushes-for-spanish-bull-run-ban/