After a delay last month, the Catalan Regional Parliament is set to take its final vote tomorrow on the ban bullfighting.
This horrible practice, seeking to create virtue from torture and killing, should have been made illegal long ago, but the narrow vote in December illustrated the divide in how the Spanish consider this so-called sport.
First, the argument for bullfighting is that it is fundamental to Spanish culture. References to Goya and Picasso speak of the romantic aura of spectacle that the great Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca described as “probably Spain’s greatest poetic and life-sustaining wealth”. That use cultural heritage as an excuse for cruelty.
The second argument against the abolition is that Catalonia is using the issue, cynically, as a means to further its separatist agenda.
If it approves the Bill, Catalonia would become only the second Spanish region to ban bullfighting. If there is anything Catalonians are seeking to distance themselves from it is cruelty.
This horrible practice, seeking to create virtue from torture and killing, should have been made illegal long ago, but the narrow vote in December illustrated the divide in how the Spanish consider this so-called sport.
First, the argument for bullfighting is that it is fundamental to Spanish culture. References to Goya and Picasso speak of the romantic aura of spectacle that the great Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca described as “probably Spain’s greatest poetic and life-sustaining wealth”. That use cultural heritage as an excuse for cruelty.
The second argument against the abolition is that Catalonia is using the issue, cynically, as a means to further its separatist agenda.
If it approves the Bill, Catalonia would become only the second Spanish region to ban bullfighting. If there is anything Catalonians are seeking to distance themselves from it is cruelty.
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