A bill was recently put in place with the aim of prohibiting minors under the age of 16 from attending a bullfight or a cockfight. After being rejected at the beginning of the month by the Law Commission, the Senate has also just rejected the proposal.
A unanimous rejection by the Senate.
This November 14, the Senators were asked to express their views on the bill which aimed to prohibit access to bullfighting or cockfighting for minors under 16 years of age.
In a press release issued by the National Hunters Federation, we learn that out of 322 voters, 254 decided that this measure should disappear.
These are local traditions, which are often ancestral practices, which are being called into question. As the FNC states:
“It is not up to the law, but to parents to judge in their soul and conscience whether they can take their children to discover these very supervised traditions. »
Why are hunters happy with this result?
What is the link between bullfighting and hunting? If animalists will respond with negative arguments that they consider common to what they consider to be their enemies, on the hunters' side it's all a question of tradition.
Hunters are rural people, who perpetuate a hunting practice that comes to us from our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and even earlier.
These are traditions that we also perpetuate through our hunting methods and we know well that if the first brick were to be dismantled from the wall by radical animalists, all the traditions will end up being there, from bullfighting, fishing, hunting or horseback riding.
Willy Schraen, President of the FNC, welcomed this important decision taken by the Senators:
“Once again, certain political groups have called into question, under a false pretext, the transmission of our rural traditions by trying to
believe that we force children to discover and share our traditions! This is totally false!
Believing in our traditional values and wanting to pass them on is the role of parents. I thank the senators for voting overwhelmingly against this bill. In responsibility, the senators who are elected representatives of our territories have been the guarantors of our rural traditions. They know from experience that these traditions are one of the foundations of economic and social life in rural areas. »
