Berets, Baguettes and Brutal Blood Sport: Welcome to France!

Publication/Event date: 2013-10-08
Publication name: The Huffington Post
URL for more info: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carole-raphaelle-davis/berets-baguettes-and-brut_b_4053778.html?utm_hp_ref=france
Summary:
The French tourism industry doesn’t really want you to know about it. You won’t find it anywhere on the official French government tourist office website. France is a civilized country, known as the culture capital of the world, right? But did you know that the act of torturing an animal to death was successfully elevated in status to “culture” and “art” by French lawmakers? Yes, it’s true–the French government, a handful of celebrities including tax fugitive Gérard Depardieu and thousands of deluded sadists using “tradition” as an excuse, are complicit in some of the most horrific animal abuse in the world–bullfighting.

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