Mexican Lawmakers Push for Broad Reform to Expand Animal Rights teleSUR
go to original October 7, 2014

Bullfights were introduced to Mexico during the Spanish occupation. (Reuters)

Mexican senators from the National Action Party (PAN) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) will present on Tuesday a broader animal rights reform to ban bullfighting, lawmakers announced on Monday.

The reform will also ban rooster fights, known as Palenques and the use of animals in circuses.

This means that if the bill is approved, any spectacles that uses animals and force them to act differently to their natural behaviour will not be allowed.

Bullfights and rooster fights are popular in the Mexican countryside.

Jorge Emilio Gonzalez, a member of the PVEM, acknowledged that it  might be difficult to gather popular support for their measure, especially due to the “power” of the bullfighting advocates.

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