Deaths in Calgary and Pamplona

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-07-10 07:11:00 UTC
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One of the runners in Pamplona's annual Running of the Bulls has died. But of course, even though human deaths are the ones that get mainstream media attention, the number of humans injured and killed in this misguided tradition doesn't compare to the number of bulls injured and brutally killed every year, in the running and in the bloody bullring afterward. See Spain-based Igualdad Animal/Animal Equality's brief statement here. Please also listen to the BBC story on the human death and the controversy over the Running of the Bulls, the second part of which features an interview with Igualdad Animal's Sharon Núñez, who did an excellent job speaking for the bulls and countering the position of the practice's supporters.

And in North America, a third animal has now died in the violent Calgary Stampede, Glenn of Liberation BC reports: "So far two horses and have been killed in races in addition to today’s steer at this year’s Stampede, which is Canada’s largest rodeo event." Way to show your toughness, rodeo participants and supporters; I've always admired someone who can efficiently wrestle, slam down, and kill a one-year-old steer--a baby--while cheering crowds look on.

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Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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