Thursday, 08 April 2010 10:17

"The bulls will be relegated to the zoo if the run away '

http://www.abc.es/20100406/toros-toros/toros-bravos-quedaran-relegados-20100406.html

President of the Union of Breeders of the Bulls from 2002 to 2010, analyzes the current situation of the Party, threatened by attempts to ban in Catalonia.

"The bulls will be relegated to the zoo if the run away '
Eduardo Miura posing in front of the heads of his legendary bulls Zahariche
ABC, with the Feast in Catalonia



JESUS MARIA PEREIRA


"Imagine that I am a staunch bullfighting, how would take me to your tables?
"It's very difficult because the staunch anti-bullfighting is not willing to be convinced. The Fiesta is a fact culturalmediterráneo over two hundred years. The bull is a unique animal in a selfish society that does not know what to do with what is useless, as the elderly or long-lived animals. The bulls will be relegated to zoos if the bull away.

How many donkeys is now on the road? None, because they are not useful. Environmentalists often attack the bullfighting and retain an undeniable genetic heritage.
"The anti-bullfighting argue that bullfighting is the torture made show and be compared to gender-based violence.

- But if there is violence every day on TV! I have not yet heard that any child has tried to kill someone with a sword after watching a bullfight. However I do know that a boy killed his father with a katana series after watching violent.


"In Catalonia promotes bull ban and at the same time, wants to preserve the popular bullfights.


"It's a contradiction considering the bous al carrer Catalan and not the National Party. In Catalonia there are many bulls in the street, especially in Tarragona. I think it's perfect because the base for the National Day celebrations is popular bullfighting and Spain was a country of popular festivals around the bull, you like some more or less to others. The bous al carrer is the basis of the fight.

- So why this insistence on preserving the bous?


"They know that if we prohibit it will cost to put the mayor. In the end what is the voting premium.


- Do you think the Catalan parliament banned the run?


I do not know. Behind it is a political background. There are men who think it is a representation of the Spanish. I hate it because the French Roussillon Ceret is a town called where they hold a run to reaffirm its Catalan identity.

Cross the border and what to French Roussillon is Catalan, here is Spanish. What will happen? The CiU has the key.

- Catalan society react against national symbols if it cuts the statute?
"Maybe. In Spain is known for the bulls and flamenco, as much they want to impose the Catalan donkey, an animal that lives in reserves because it is not useful. The bulls, which themselves are useful, they are animals that live in a semi-wild in more than 400,000 hectares of pasture. If people see how they live chicken or a calf, would take his hands to his head.


- How long was runs in Catalonia?
"There were bullfights in Cardona in the sixteenth century. I recently saw a study of the runs that were held in Barcelona in 1761 and ran there for more bulls in the Plaza de Sevilla.

"If ultimately approved the ban Catalonia, do you think will be extended to other autonomous?
"I do not think so. Anyway, in Catalonia for years have been passing laws to stifle the development of the Pops: minors are forbidden to enter the arena even if accompanied by parents, to require them to places of safety legislation as a public building, not give permission to the portable seats ... Not prohibit the bulls and bullfights popular, but it will difficult to meet standards setting because the economy can not sustain it.

-¿Acabaría la polémica en Cataluña si se prohibiera matar al toro en la plaza?
-Eso sería peor porque sufre más el toro. En Portugal no se mata en el ruedo, pero nadie ve las horas que se pasa en un corral hasta que al día siguiente lo apuntillan.

- Is Europe an ally or an enemy in this conflict?
"There's an American trend to increasingly protect the animal, but interestingly many of those who are against bullfights are un-American. This tendency towards the protection of animals comes from Walt Disney, who has sold all the animals are very good and the evil we humans.

"There is a surplus of 3,000 bulls. Why not adapt production to demand?
"It's very difficult to adapt production to demand in 24 hours. Bulls will fight now is procreated five years ago, when the bull market demanded. This is like a ship of 50,000 tons. You need time and space to stop or change direction.

"They have been reduced by 28% bullfighting two years ago. Is it the crisis or lack of interest?
"For the crisis. We all believed in this country that we were billionaires and it was not. There are many villages in the municipalities involved in bullfighting and now have no money.

- How much does a bull?
"Depends. In the bullring in Seville can be worth 12,000 to 15,000 euros. In the town squares six bulls can be worth 12,000 euros.


- To be given once you have to kill a Miura?
"In the past it because the public demanded it, but today there is so lacking.


- Why many figures herds do not want hard?
"It's human if you will come to a site anyway and you can save some effort.