The torturing of bulls in Catalan bullrings is over.

¿Do you think it’s fear not prohibiting a practice that kill animals just because a group of people like it or just because it has more than 600 years of history? A crowd of 20,000 people watched, two Sundays ago, the last bullfight in Barcelona, before a ban comes into place across Catalonia.

In my opinion, it’s an advance for Catalonia to be the first region in mainland Spain to ban bullfighting, but while some people celebrated the ban as a victory for animal rights, many dismissed it as a purely political move. As Marín told to El Mundo newspaper, “The parliament banned bullfighting because it is a Spanish tradition, not to protect animals,". Furthermore, Bullfighting supporters accused deputies in the local parliament to have voted it through purely because bullfighting was emblematic of Spain and they wanted to differentiate Catalonia from the rest of the country. From my view, this people can understand that Catalan people just only want to protect these animals, and it’s pathetic, they involucres other political affairs to this matter because bullfighting has been on the decline in Catalonia for decades.

Finally, on the one hand, I have to say I am glad that the torturing of bulls in Catalan bullrings is over, but in the other hand, I am sad that although this war has been won, still die six animals two Sundays ago in La Monumental.