14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago, model Elen Rivas paid a visit to the Spanish Embassy in the United Kingdom.
She was accompanied by animal rights activists working with PETA, the Humane Society International, the League Against Cruel Sports and the World Society for the Protection of Animals.
According to Look to the Stars, the visit was by no means a very friendly one.
On the contrary, Elen Rivas and the activists gathered in front of the Embassy to demand that the Spanish government list bullfighting as illegal and do not issue laws that would make it a part of the country's cultural heritage.
To prove that they weren't the only ones who strongly believed that bullfighting was by no means part and parcel of Spain's cultural heritage, the protesters brought with them a petition signed by 67,078 people.
“I am proud of my Spanish heritage, but the fact that some people are still clinging to the tradition of stabbing bulls to death in bullfighting arenas is something that the vast majority of Spaniards, including me, are ashamed of.”
“Glorifying the deliberate slaughter of animals should not be tolerated in a civilized society,” Spanish model Elen Rivas explains.