Spain Is Trying To Force People To Mistreat Animals

Spain’s constitutional court just overturned Catalonia’s ban on bullfighting, a law that was created by the regional government back in 2010. Nine of the 12 Spanish judges ruled that the “preservation of common cultural heritage” was more important than Barcelona’s interest in animal welfare, and since bullfighting is a Spanish tradition, they are going to make it a Catalonian tradition too. Obviously, that doesn’t sit well among Catalonians with an interest in sovereignty, who see Spain as enforcing cultural ideals on a region with its own identity. Outraged, Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau said that the city has been anti-bullfighting since 2004 and “whatever the court says, the Catalan capital will not allow animals to be mistreated.”