To hardly installed in the hemicycle and already a beautiful controversy… Aymeric Caron, elected deputy of Paris under the Nupes label and convinced anti-speciesist, set fire to the arenas by announcing that he wanted to table a bill aimed at banning bullfighting. He revealed on July 15 that he was working on the issue with two other animal rights activists, Sébastien Arsac, the co-founder of the L214 association, and Lorène Jacquet of the Bardot Foundation.
It was enough to provoke an outcry in the southern departments. The deputies of Gard, where bullfighting is well established, thus reacted in Free lunch throwing their banderillas against the deputy of the 18e constituency of Paris. The majority of them, who belong to the National Rally, strongly condemned the initiative, like Pierre Meurin, who castigates an “extreme left” whose sole objective is “to methodically destroy our cultural traditions”.
And elected officials to ask Aymeric Caron to rather mobilize against slaughter without stunning, still practiced in France. “The green ayatollahs like Aymeric Caron, underlines Nicolas Meizonnet, who claim to be animal defenders, would be well advised to fight against intensive breeding or ritual slaughter which kills millions of animals in atrocious suffering each year. , when bullfighting involves only a few hundred bulls…”
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Same opposition from Philippe Berta, elected under the label MoDem-Presidential Majority, who denounces a media coup “unbearable and totally disconnected from the difficulties of the French”. As for Senator LR Laurent Burgoa, he was even more direct on France Bleu: “I will tell him, with a verb often used for a few months: that he does not bother us! May he let us live in peace! He is a deputy from Paris, let him take care of the rats in the city of Paris, and let us have our bulls in the south of France…”
Not enough to intimidate Aymeric Caron, who has the firm intention of defending the ecological aspect of Nupes and that of the animal cause: prohibition of “factory farms” and “cruel” hunting or leisure practices, establishment of new standards for farms, limitation of animal transport time… “First day of a mandate that I will put at the service of humans, nature and animals”, he wrote on Twitter on June 20, 2022.
As for bullfighting, still authorized in the departments which can prove “an uninterrupted local tradition”, it is a subject that is particularly close to his heart: “There are still lots of traditions that we have been able to fight, eliminate , eradicate in a certain number of countries, he recalled recently in The small newspaper, on Canal+. Because we knew that they were contrary to the vision of human rights or animal rights and the right of all sentient living beings not to suffer or be killed for no reason, for the pleasure of a few spectators frustrated who can enjoy the spectacle of blood and killing. “The “frustrated” should appreciate…
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