Pestana Hotels - 'Pousadas de Portugal' is offering healthy discounts to those purchasing tickets for the 2014 bullfight season held in the Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon
Here is a link to the poster: http://goo.gl/IQfS5A or see a copy of the ad. at the end of this notice.
In a petition on the campaigning web service - change.org - the sponsor says that it is very important to show the Pestana Group, that cruelty has no discount, and that the majority of Portugal's citizens do not approve of bullfighting.
"Bullfighting do not have consensus in our society and internationally many are against the violence and cruelty committed against animals."
To add you name to this campaign directed at the well-known hotelier, Pestana, readers can register with change.org, if you haven't already, which will add your name to others who want the Pestana Group to cease its promotional activity in support of bullfighting.
http://www.change.org/pt-BR/peti%C3%A7%C3%B5es/grupo-pestana-parem-de-apoiar-as-touradas-em-portugal
Continental Hotels also is mentioned on the promotional material. Its hotels in Portugal are:
Clarion Suites Lisboa
Comfort Inn Braga
Comfort Inn Fafe - Guimarães
Holiday Inn Express Lisbon-Oeiras
Holiday Inn Lisboa
Holiday Inn Lisbon - Continental
Hotel Florida
Lezíria Parque Hotel
Quality Inn Portus Cale - Porto
Quality Inn Praça da Batalha - Porto
Radisson Blu Lisboa
To be fair, the advertisers on the promotional leaflet promoting the Albufeira bullfighting season for June, 'special prices for children' include:
- Ideal Travel, Albufeira
- Restaurante Beira, Albufeira
- Clube Pesca e Nautica Desportiva, Albufeira
- Lumikor graphic design
- Joaquim das Raçoes, and
- Caixa Geral de Depositos, Portugal's largest public sector banking corporation, established in 1876 and owned by the state on behalf of the public.
Comments
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
Every developed nationality now knows this to be true ... but Gandhi was saying this 100 years ago !
Particularly as bull fightings roots lie in pre-Christian pagan worship from Greece and Egypt. Nothing remotely to do with Iberian culture.
So .... like throwing traumatised donkeys off church towers - why keep doing it except to emphasise backwardness ?