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Today, probably the most famous animal abuse festival<\/a> in the world \u2013 the fiesta in honor of\u00a0San Fermin mostly known as Running of the Bulls \u2013 has ended for this year.<\/p>\n For anyone not familiar with the abusive festival, a run takes place every day at 8A.M. between the 7th<\/sup> and the 14th<\/sup> of July. 6 bulls and 6 steers who are supposed to herd them, run the 825 meters of immensely crowded narrow streets from the corral and into the bullring. When entering the bullring the bulls are immediately imprisoned inside the ring, saving them for later. Meanwhile cows and calves are released to the bullring for the runners to enjoy as they abuse them, playing matadors. In the evening the 6 bulls, who were forced to run in the morning, are tortured in a bullfight spectacle<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Running of the Bulls festival is consistently preceded with creative protests by animal rights activists, and until about a decade ago, humans were even offered to forsake the running of the bulls festival and instead join the alternative Running of the Nudes festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n Campaigns against this festival, as well as against bullfighting in general, are being held for decades now. Dozens of animal rights organizations campaigning for decades, thousands of demonstrations in front of Spanish embassies, tens of thousands of letters to Spanish governments, decades of a boycott on Spain by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. But nothing helps. In this world, things don\u2019t change for moral reasons. The two things that did manage to call off the festival and bullfights are the Spanish civil war and the Covid19 pandemic. And still, they didn\u2019t end these horrors permanently but just canceled them for one year. So to end it for good, along with the rest of the animal tortures<\/a>, what is actually needed is something similar but with a much more profound effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, probably the most famous animal abuse festival in the world \u2013 the fiesta in honor of\u00a0San Fermin mostly known as Running of the Bulls \u2013 has ended for this year. For anyone not familiar with the abusive festival, a run takes place every day at 8A.M. between the 7th and the 14th of July. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe terrified bulls, surrounded by hundreds of runners, are harassed and touched all along the run.
\nRunning on the cobbled streets with sharp turns, the bulls also suffer from falls, trampling, bruises and fractures. They often collide with the walls, get severely injured, sometimes breaking bones.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bulls_suffer_from_falls_trampling_bruises.jpg\")
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\nEven the Catalan ban on bullfighting is small, regional, and was originally made for political reasons and not moral ones. And even that was repealed about nine years ago by Spain\u2019s Constitutional Court who overturned the ban for being unconstitutional. The formal excuse is that bullfights are part of \u2018Spanish cultural heritage\u2019 and thus outlawing them can only be legislated by the central government.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.onlyonesolution.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Political_Compassion_First_Frame.png\")
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