LETTERS AGAINST BULLFIGHTS IN MOSCOW

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LETTERS AGAINST BULLFIGHTS IN MOSCOW

 

Source: PETA Alerts

 

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Russian Parliament

Email: post_sf

 

 

Russian Duma

Email: priem

 

 

Russian Government

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SAMPLE LETTER

 

Re: Please-NO BULLFIGHTS IN RUSSIA

 

Dear Sir/Madam:

 

I understand that Portuguese and French matadors are

making efforts in Russia to organize a bullfight in a

portable bullring inside the Olympic stadium, in June

and July of this year. The plan is to have two

bullfights involving horses, one bullfight with

bullocks, and two ground bullfights. I urge you to

cancel this plan immediately.

 

Every year, approximately 35,000 bulls are tormented

and killed in bullfights in Spain. Although many

bullfight attendees are American tourists, 90 percent

of these tourists never return to another fight after

witnessing the relentless cruelty that takes place in

the ring.

 

The bulls aren't the only victims of the intense

cruelty of the arena. According to Lyn Sherwood,

publisher of an English-language bullfight magazine,

horses used in bullfights are " shot behind the ear

with dope. The horses are drugged and blindfolded and

they're knocked down a lot. " These horses, who are

often gored, usually have wet newspaper stuffed in

their ears to impair their hearing, and their vocal

cords are usually cut so their cries do not distract

the crowd. Fight promoters claim the horses are

" saved " from glue factories; this means these animals

are often old, tired plow horses who end up being

knocked down by bulls weighing up to a half a ton.

 

Bullfighting is a senseless, degrading spectacle that

has no place in a civilized society. Russia should be

speaking against such cruelty to animals, not

promoting it. Please do not support this barbarism.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

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