Schnappauf: No tax money for the breeding of fighting bulls

Submitted by Thomas Pröller, meat-n-more on , Published in Archive

The breeding of Spanish fighting bulls may no longer be financed with EU subsidies and thus by European taxpayers. This is what Bavaria's animal welfare minister Werner Schnappauf demanded in Munich after media reports had revealed that fighting bulls would be promoted with considerable funds even after the EU agricultural reform. Schnappauf: "Federal Minister of Agriculture Renate Künast must immediately work in Brussels to ensure that this subsidy practice, which is contrary to animal welfare, is ended as quickly as possible."

Every year the EU gives up to 22,5 million euros to around 1.200 Spanish fighting bull breeders, the minister said. Schnappauf: "Bullfighting is cruelty to animals. Animal rights activists all over Europe are rightly outraged. The fact that the Federal Government apparently considers the EU subsidizing this cruelty to be something completely incomprehensible and makes a mockery of animal welfare. Minister Künast has the duty to to act here if she wants to be credible as an animal rights activist. "

Source: Munich [stmugv]

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