Citizens Present Bill to Reform Environmental Law to Prohibit Bullfights in Yucatan The Yucatan Times
go to original September 28, 2016

This is bullfighting. One minute is all you need to see to know that this torture is wrong. (PETA UK)

A group of Yucatan citizens protested at the gates of Merida’s Plaza de Toros and presented a legislative bill to reform the state’s environmental law to prohibit bullfights in Yucatan.

The Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) in Yucatan, Harry Rodriguez Botello Fierro, said that this proposal seeks to raise awareness about the negative impact of tolerating this kind of show, and that it is necessary to avoid mistreatment of the bulls.

“As human beings we are obliged to defend the physical and psychological abuse which is carried out against this kind of species (the bulls). The importance of the bullfighting ban is focused on the method used to end the life of fighting bulls. The bulls do not exist because there are bullfights, rather the bullfights exist because the bulls exist,” said Botello Fierro.

Yucatan would be the third state in Mexico to ban bullfighting after Sonora and Coahuila.

Read the rest at The Yucatan Times

Related: Despite Centuries of Tradition, Most Mexicans Oppose Bullfights (The News)

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