Pamplona (EFE).- Fifty people in Pamplona have joined the national initiative, promoted by the NAC Platform (No hunting), to reject hunting activity. Also especially this year due to its imminence, to urge the new Animal Protection Law to protect all animals, including dogs used in hunting.
The activists have gathered in the Plaza del Castillo, some of them with their pets, behind several banners with slogans such as “NO hunting with greyhounds and other breeds” or “We want them alive and free.” Put yourself in their place.” He also displayed small posters with photographs of dogs and hunted dead animals, with phrases such as “(Only) all animals have the capacity to suffer” or “Hunting is murder.”
In this scenario, the spokesperson for Libertad Animal Navarra, Irma Jiménez, has presented NAC as an “anti-species, non-partisan, non-denominational and non-profit” association. It is made up of 84 coordinators, who on this day have taken to the streets in 45 Spanish cities.
The Animal Protection Law, after a decade against hunting
“We are the only country in the European Union where this aberration continues to be practiced,” he said. He recalled that for a decade they have held this annual rally to call for an end to hunting with dogs.
The manifesto of the NAC Platform has also been read for all of today’s events. It describes the painful life of many of the hunting dogs, although “not only brutality with their dogs feeds the depravity of hunters,” he said in relation to the animals that are hunted.
They have described hunters as “riffraff who kill animals for hobby, competition, pride or to save money” and that “they can never have enough.” They have also criticized the political parties that support the hunters, whose vote “is a gag in the mouth of most politicians to denounce their atrocities.”
In any case, they have warned that those present at the concentration were “animal rights activists. We know the pain, it is not discouragement “, and for this reason they were going to continue in this complaint.
