An anti bullfighting campaign, a deputy who plans to table a bill to ban it. In Nîmes, aficionados respond by launching an online subscription for a clip promoting the defense of bullfighting.
An advertising campaign explaining the suffering of fighting bulls. A member’s bill
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%20″>LFI Aymeric Caron aimed at banning bullfighting. Bullfighting enthusiasts see red. They retaliate by launching an online subscription. Objective to raise funds for a bullfighting defense clip that will be broadcast on TV channels and social networks.
“After reflection, within the Union of French bullfighting youth, we said to ourselves that these attacks against our culture were unbearable and that we had to react. We decided to launch a kitty for a clip but also wrote a forum signed by 100 young people from one hundred towns with a bullfighting tradition who are committed to defending our heritage.
“Let us live, replies Corentin Carpentier the spokesperson for the Union of the bullfighting youth of France.
We are not barbarians to be re-educated. We have a very rich and very current culture. Bullfighting is about social ties, it goes through the preservation of the environment and exceptional ecosystems made possible by the breeding of fighting bulls.
Corentin CarpentierSpokesperson for the French Bullfighting Youth Union
Bullfighting is conviviality, sharing and it is an essential economy.
Out of 100,000 head of cattle, 800 fighting bulls would, according to him, be destined for bullfighting.
Tradition for some, barbarism for others. Between the pros and the anti bullfighting. Two fights. Two views. Irreconcilable.
“ It has nothing to do with tradition. In a judgment of the correctional court of Nîmes, it is explained that bullfighting is abuse and acts of cruelty “adds Claire Starozinski, president of the Anti-bullfighting Alliance and also the origin of atelevision campaign. The idea of an online kitty for a counter-campaign amuses the president of the Anti-bullfighting Alliance.
That aficionados are reduced to imitating the Anti-Bullfighting Alliance is both amusing and pathetic and at the same time it is a consecration. This means that the Anti-Bullfighting Alliance did a wonderful job with the TV spot which was shown on the television channels all summer.
Claire StarozinskiPresident of the Alliance anti-corrida
Aficionados who received just over 2,000 euros in two days hope to raise 70,000 to make their clip project a reality.
