The naked protest

Animal rights group Peta are staging a naked protest at the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Here Bruce Friedrich, the organisation's vice president makes the case against the corrida Pamplona is a city rich in history, architecture, and art. Yet it also has inexorably grown into a modern urban hub abounding in industry, education, and technology. The time has come for the city to say goodbye to the last bastion of incivility: the cruel Running of the Bulls and the gruesome and cruel bull slaughter that follows. In the Running of the Bulls, held during Pamplona’s San Fermin Festival, bulls are jolted with electric prods and poked with sharp sticks to get them riled up and ready to bolt. The terrorized animals then run down slippery, narrow streets surrounded by frenzied crowds of (mostly drunk) people who scream at them and... [read full story]