Nearly Naked County Mayo Woman Drenches Herself in ‘Blood’ To Protest Torture of Bulls in Pamplona

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5 July 2016

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NEARLY NAKED COUNTY MAYO WOMAN DRENCHES HERSELF IN ‘BLOOD’ TO PROTEST TORTURE OF BULLS IN PAMPLONA

29-Year-Old Joins Activists From Around the World to Demand an End to Cruel Running of the Bulls

Tourmakeady, County Mayo – Wearing little more than “bull horns” and holding signs which read, “Pamplona: Bloodbath for Bulls”, 29-year-old Jacqueline Joyce

from Tourmakeady, County Mayo, joined 75 protesters outside Pamplona’s main square today. At the action– which was organised by PETA and the Spanish animal-protection group AnimaNaturalis – activists poured gallons of “blood” on themselves ahead of the Running of the Bulls festival, during which dozens of bulls are struck and terrorised as they slip and slide down narrow streets on their way to a violent death in Pamplona’s bullring.

Photos of Joyce and the event are available here and here. Video footage of the protest is available here.

“Torturing and killing animals can never be justified as entertainment”, says Joyce. “We’re calling on Spain to end its widely condemned Running of the Bulls event and the bullfights that follow – and, with them, the horrific suffering and abuse of bulls.”

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment” – has documented that in a typical bullfight, as many as eight men taunt, beat and stab a single bull with daggers and harpoon-like banderillas until he becomes weakened from blood loss. Then, the matador stabs the exhausted animal with a sword and an executioner cuts his spinal cord. Many bulls are paralysed but still conscious as they are chained and dragged out of the arena.

Jacqueline Joyce is available for interviews. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk.

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