Bullfighting

Marita Giménez-Candela

Chapter 20 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 76-79 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Seven countries worldwide continue to engage in bullfighting. Three of these countries (Spain, Portugal, and France) are members of the European Union, while the other four (Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru) are in Latin America. In each of these countries, the celebration of these bloody spectacles, in which a bull is killed in a measured ritual, is the subject of significant debate between those who defend them as an artistic expression and a cultural tradition – which should be protected – and those who reject them and fight for their abolition in the name of protecting an animal who is a sentient being. Both positions are presented here, along with the arguments, literature, and legislation that these controversies have generated on both sides of the Atlantic.

Keywords: Bullfighting; Tradition; Culture; History; Animal welfare; Ritual (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
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