This is the second consecutive year that the San Fermin Festival and the infamous Bull Run event have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are six things you can do instead – including helping us make sure the bulls aren’t forced to run through the streets of Pamplona just to be stabbed again in the arena that night.
1. Take part in the Tyrannosaurus Race.
Have you seen this viral video of a group of people in tyrannosaurus rex Are the suits racing along the track? PETA has asked the mayor of Pamplona to replace the dangerous, archaic and terrifyingly violent “Run of the Bulls” with his own version of Tyrannosaurus racing. If Pamplona wants to continue with an event reminiscent of prehistoric times, the dinosaur race is just the ticket.
Watch the video and only participate in fun races that will not harm animals:
2. How about “running on the ball”?
No, that’s not a typo – the city of Mataelpino in Spain has replaced the archaic Run of the Bulls event, in which frightened animals are chased in the streets, with a groundbreaking spectacle that features revelers instead. chased by giant polystyrene balls! This is how it looks:
When going to a festival, choose one that doesn’t use animals for fun.
3. Run a marathon in support of PETA’s efforts to end bullfighting.
Join the PETA package and raise funds to help us stop using bulls and all other animals for fun.
4. Tell the truth about bull running.
Not everyone knows that the same bulls who are forced to flee to entertain tourists are then killed in a bullfight. During the week-long festival of San Fermin, at least 48 bulls were brutally slaughtered.
More than 80% of Spaniards oppose blood sport, and there were about 56% fewer official bullfights in 2018 than in 2007, but these notions of illness may continue in large part thanks to tourist money.
Help spread the word and inform tourists. Share our blog posts with everyone you know and urge your friends never to support this brutality:
5. Take a look at the iconic PETA protests in Pamplona.
From the mass “bloody massacre” on the main square of the city to the “Race of the Nudes”! How many iconic PETA and AnimaNaturalis demonstrations in Pamplona do you remember?
PETA has teamed up with Spanish animal rights groups since 2002 to organize high-profile protests, in which hundreds of activists took positions to raise awareness of the brutality of bull racing and bullfighting:
6. Take steps to ensure that the bull run never returns.
There is no need for a global pandemic to cancel this barbaric event. It’s time for the authorities to recognize that ritual bull torture has no place in a compassionate society, and to abolish everything future events.
Call on the Mayor of Pamplona, Spain, to stop letting frightened bulls be slaughtered for this barbaric event forever: