Ireland's largest online bookstore removes bullfight book

Ireland's largest online bookstore removes bullfight book
10 June 2011

ICABS has thanked Kennys.ie - Ireland's largest online bookstore - for removing a bullfighting book from sale. In our appeal to the company, we highlighted that "How to Watch a Bullfight" endeavours to attract readers to bullrings where bulls suffer the most horrendous end.

"Please be assured that Kennys in no way condone animal cruelty," a company spokesperson responded, confirming the removal of the book.

A big thumbs up to Kennys for this compassionate move. Visit their website at www.Kennys.ie

ICABS is now calling on other Irish book sellers to follow this good example. Please help by responding to the action alert below.

ACTION ALERT

Please ask Easons, BooksUnlimited and your local book shops to reject "How to Watch a Bullfight".

Eason & Son Ltd
40 Lower O’Connell Street,
Dublin 1,
customerservice@easons.com
Phone: (01) 858 3800

BooksUnlimited Office
Northside Shopping Centre
Coolock, Dublin 17
support@BooksUnlimited.ie
Phone: (01) 847 9740

SAMPLE LETTER
(If you have time, please compose your own personal, polite letter.)

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to appeal to you to please stop selling "How to Watch a Bullfight", a book that celebrates one of the world's worst forms of animal cruelty and endeavours to attract readers to the blood-drenched hellholes where bulls suffer the most horrendous end. I have watched online videos of bullfighting and I can tell you that bullfights involve the slow, merciless torture to death of bulls. They are firstly stabbed in the back with long lances - the lances penetrate through their skin and painfully tear into their flesh. They are then stabbed with six spiked spears which hang from their bleeding bodies. The bulls are in agony and suffering from severe pain, blood loss and exhaustion when the matador arrives. He goads each bull and plunges a sword between its shoulder blades and into its heart. The bull collapses and its ears and tail are sliced off with a dagger - sometimes while the animal is still alive. If someone did to a bull in Ireland what is done to bulls in Spain, they would be arrested and prosecuted for extreme cruelty to animal. It is very regrettable that you are endeavouring to profit from a book that celebrates this disgusting barbarity. I appeal to your sense of compassion to reject this book and withdraw it from sale. Thank you very much. I look forward to your positive response. Yours faithfully, [Name/Location]

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