NEWS: Nude Protesters Head for Bull Run - BBC 07/03/05

[Guest guest]

It's good to see PETA making one more attempt to end the barbaric

practice of bull fighting. I think it was Pope Innocent who tried to

ban bull fighting in the Middle Ages -- but unfortunately the Spanish

insisted that it was an essential part of their traditional culture.

 

But, Spain in changing these days. I pray that those with expansive

hearts for God's creatures will prevail this time. I admire their

spirit of persistence in trying to end this.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

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BBC 7/3/2005

 

Nude Protesters Head for Bull Run

 

A woman from Kent and a man from Sussex are among up to 1,000 people

expected to take part in a naked protest against an annual Spanish bull

run.

 

The town of Pamplona, in northern Spain, will witness the fourth nude

"Human Race" on Tuesday before its own traditional Running of the Bulls.

 

Ivan Darch, of Hastings, and Alexandra Egre, of Canterbury, are from

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

 

They left the UK on Sunday to join up with the PETA campaign in Spain.

 

Supporters from across Europe will march through the streets of Pamplona

to voice their objections to Thursday's bull run.

 

PETA said many of them will be naked apart from red scarves and plastic

horns.

 

Sean Gifford, director of European campaigns, said: "Tormenting and

butchering animals for entertainment is something straight out of the

Dark Ages."

 

Bull runs and bullfights with matadors are described as a "vital" part

of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.

 

But Ivan Darch called it a "historically cruel and barbaric tradition

that really needs to be put to bed".

 

Mr Darch also supported PETA's protest in 2004 because he thinks the

Running of the Bulls is "morally wrong".

 

"It has been outlawed in certain towns in Spain, so I think it's a case

of slowly but surely.

 

"As long as we keep up the fight at our end, then people will see we're

not going to go away or stop until we get the results that we need."