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We advocate on all animal protection and exploitation issues, including experimentation, factory farming, rodeos, breeders and traveling animal acts.

Animal Defenders of Westchester
P.O. Box 205
Yonkers, NY 10704

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Contact National Enquirer Magazine Regarding Child Bullfighter

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is a very popular family-oriented tabloid magazine.  A few weeks ago they gave some compassionate coverage to SHARK'S anti-rodeo effort; unfortunately in the 7/31 issue they feature a full-page piece celebrating a child bullfighter (www.nationalenquirer.com) It is accompanied by a photo of this poor animal with lances in his back, bowed before the child torturer. This article is not available online - here is a portion:

'He's the worlds youngest matador - no bull!'

By John Blosser

He stands in the ring armed only with a red cape and small sword.  His opponent is an angry 400-pound, razor-horned animals whose instinct is to charge and gore.  The matador holds his sword in the air, fearless, ready to do battle.

And he is only 9 years old.  He began at age 4.

"He has great intuition and bullfighting comes easy to him," say his instructors.  "He will become a great bullfighting figure in the next decade.  He's got it in his blood."

Recently a 'Vaquilla' - a cow with horns - lifted the boy and threw him to the ground.  Fortunately two adult bullfighters distracted the animal before any harm was done.

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This distressing article, which promotes child cruelty,  makes ABSOLUTELY NO REFERENCE to the vast animal protection effort - even within Spain itself - to put a stop to this brutal, heartless blood sport.  It is a totally praiseful puff piece that has NO PLACE in a family-oriented weekly magazine.

Please complain STRONGLY about this magazine content, and demand that National Enquirer ONLY show kind acts and depictions of animals:

American Media, Inc is the parent company for the ENQUIRER; please cc them as well:

Letters to the editor:
[email protected] (appx 100 wds or less, inc contact info)

cc:  [email protected]

Please also cc American Media, Inc, NE's parent company:

Daniel Rotstein
Senior Vice President - Administration and Human Resources
EMAIL: [email protected]

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