All implicated in cruelty
LOUISE Piddington (July 29) is right to highlight the
abominable cruelty involved in Spanish bullfights and many
other Spanish "sports" involving great cruelty to animals and
birds.
Sadly, many tourists attend these disgusting spectacles and
we are all implicated, because the European Union subsidises
the raising of thousands of bulls expressly for the purpose of
torturing them to death to entertain.
Many thousands of pounds of subsidies are allocated and
about 40,000 animals will be slaughtered after torture this
year alone.
The EU is spending £30 million a year on this and we pay
over a million every hour while having no say on how it is
spent.
The only way to avoid being implicated is to pull out
forthwith.
M H Simpson Truro
2 Comments
by TESS NASH, Helston Cornwall
Sunday, August 10 2008, 7:14AM
“The most important point which has been raised here, is that the blanket imposition of laws by the EU Commission and its parliament, clearly cannot work across so many countries, most of which have long-standing cultures and traditions and are not going to stand for interference.
There are those in the UK who believe that foxhunting is cruel.
There are those who don¿t agree.
But the will of one group has been imposed on the other causing enormous anger, frustration and turning millions of people against the three ¿main¿ political parties and our system of government in the UK.
That¿s a very dangerous situation.
Imagine this over the 27 countries of the EU, a juggernaut organisation which trillions of people all across its ¿territory¿ don¿t want anyway.
The mind boggles and heaven knows what will follow in future years unless politicians wake up to it.”
by s.j.frost, north devon
Saturday, August 09 2008, 2:37PM
“Let's hear it for English women and hypocrisy!
Sawing the heads off monkeys for dubious, duplicated medical research? OK
Battery chickens and veal crates to save a few pence on the shopping trip? OK
Spending more on dogs than a Cambodian family have to spend on survival? OK
Cruelty to animals in public? disgusting!”