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Action Alerts Contact tabloid re animal depictions THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER is a very popular weekly tabloid newspaper. They
occasionally run excellent animal protection articles as well.
Please send a few words of dismay to THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER about their
gossip columnist Mike Walker. This man's ideas about animals are archaic
and miserable: dogs are 'stupid,' horses are 'nags'...if a celebrity helps
animals he implies they are idiots. In the issue of 11/7 he writes reports on Ashton Kutcher's attempts to
learn bullfighting in Barcelona. "He entered the ring to face a real-life
fighting bull... El Toro trotted into the ring, snorting and stomping, the
annoyed bull lowered its horns and charged as Demi shrieked 'Get the hell
out of there!'...Kutcher barely escaped a Godawful goring by beating the
beast to the escape gate!" There is so much wrong with this article it's hard to know where to
begin: it portrays bullfighting as a 'sport' for bravehearts, where an
'angry' bull gores till he's killed, as he deserves. It perpetuates every
myth and makes absolutely ZERO mention of the truth about this bloodsport
that is being challenged all over the world, including in Spain itself.
The press is powerful, and the language they use has influence. Contact them at: [email protected] and cc this writer directly: Fair Use Notice:
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