(General Interest) Spain adds ostriches to run with bulls

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Friday, October 04, 2002 4:52 AM

(Spain) Spain is now organizing new torture - involving

ostriches!!!!

 

marialopes

 

Dear Friends,

 

Spain (not satisfied with the torure of bulls and calves) is now organizing

a

new torture, this time the animals involved are ostriches!!!! The town of

Fuengirola, south of Spain, will held an " encierro " (running of bulls) with

ostriches next Monday (7h October 2002).

 

The news item in Spanish can be read at:http://www.vizzavi.es/noticias/inde

x/0,27401,3070-633478,00.html

 

Please send a letter of protest to the following authorities (with CC to the

President of the European Commission Romano Prodi, since last year a

complaint was presented for a similar event in another city and till now the

EU has done nothing).

You will find below a sample letter in English and Spanish: Please send th

e one written in Spanish.

 

Ayuntamiento de Fuegirola (City Hall)

info

 

Concejal=C3=ADa de CULTURA (City Hall Cultural Department)

cultura

 

Turismo (Tourism)

Avda. Jes=C3=BAs Santos Rein, 6

Fax: 952 46 51 00

turismo

 

Dear Mayor,

 

Spain is notorious all over the world by the way its animals are treated.

Some Spaniards, with the complicity of the city halls, torture bulls,

calves,

dogs, cats, etc. But this is not enough so you needed to discover new ani

mals to torture and the targets now are ostriches.

This is outrageous.

Don't promote torture. Animals are NOT our property.

I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Romano Prodi of the EU. This shame

has to come to an end.

 

Sincerely

Name/Country/Email

 

(Alta vista translation-not accurate one hundred percent)

 

Malaga. - The bullring of Fuengirola will welcome a confinement of ostriches

 

FUENGIROLA (MALAGA), 1 (EUROPE PRESS) The bullring of Fuengirola (Malaga)

will welcome the next Monday for the first time in its history a confinement

of ostriches, that will add themselves to the traditional confinement of

heifers, previous to the flamenco mass in honor to the Virgin of the Rosary,

pattern of the locality. The popular confinement of heifers that supposes

the pistol shot of exit of the October fair will count east year with the

newness of a confinement of ostriches, according to today informed to Europe

Press the vice-president into Bullfighting Subjects into the Club of

bullfighting enthusiasts into the Costa del sol locality, Courteous Jose

Moral. This activity will begin in the morning to eight and in her it is

predicted that a total of four ostriches participates that fuengiroleño will

leave from the slaughter house in the direction of the enclosure for

bullfighting. Morals made a call to all the fuengiroleños so that " they do

not mistreat these animals " , to which described as " very docile although it

is necessary to have well-taken care of with the kicks and the pecks " . Thus,

to guarantee the security of the birds the organization will distribute to

peñistas and neighbors informative pamphlets where he will request the

participants who carry far the precautions in the confinement of ostriches

and deal with them correct form. The person in charge of the Club of

bullfighting enthusiasts explained mainly that this initiative already has

been developed in the celebrations of the Cordovan municipality of

Villanueva of Cordova with great success of public, " between youngest " . The

Fair of Fuengirola will also count on the traditional confinement of

heifers, for which the entrance will be free until completing the gauging.

In him six cows and four bulls will take part.