{"id":758009,"date":"2019-08-20T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758009"},"modified":"2019-08-20T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:14:13","slug":"shameless-outrage-after-french-minister-in-charge-of-animal-welfare-spotted-at-barbaric-bullfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758009","title":{"rendered":"SHAMELESS: Outrage after French minister in charge of animal welfare spotted at \u2018barbaric\u2019 bullfight"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>La Fondation Brigitte Bardot, a French rights group dedicated to animal protection, said on Twitter: 'The minister of agriculture, who is in charge of animal welfare,  witnessing a torture session. Scandalous!'<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ROMINA MCGUINNESS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;France&#8217;s agriculture minister, who is also in charge of animal welfare, has drawn fierce criticism from animal rights groups after he was spotted at a \u201cbarbaric\u201d bullfight in southern France&#8230; Didier Guillaume attended a bullfight in the southwestern French town of Bayonne with Jacqueline Gourault, the French minister in charge of territorial cohesion and relations with local authorities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Outraged at his decision to attend, La Fondation Brigitte Bardot, a French rights group dedicated to animal protection, said on Twitter: \u201cThe minister of agriculture, who is in charge of animal welfare, @dguillaume26 is at this very moment with @j_gourault (another government minister) witnessing a torture session at the Bayonne arena\u2026 Scandalous!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The animal rights group added: \u201cWhat hypocrisy! Tonight, Didier Guillaume has lost all credibility (if he ever had any) by attending a barbaric so-called \u2018show\u2019\u2026 This is beyond outrageous and nauseating!\u201d&#8230; Animal rights advocates from the One Voice group also denounced the minister\u2019s decision to attend the fight, saying on Twitter that it was not with \u201cministers like Mr Guillaume that the tradition would end\u201d&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>France\u2019s pro-animal political party Le Parti Animaliste also lashed out at Mr Guillaume, saying his decision to attend the Bayonne fight was \u201cproof that it is no longer tenable for animal welfare to be attached to the agriculture ministry,\u201d before calling for a separate \u201cministry dedicated to animal welfare\u201d to be set up. Mr Guillaume has not yet addressed the controversy&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1166634\/animal-cruelty-bullfight-france-animal-rights-didier-guillaume\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8N4bZPl4s48\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROMINA MCGUINNESS: &#8216;France&#8217;s agriculture minister, who is also in charge of animal welfare, has drawn fierce criticism from animal rights groups after he was spotted at a \u201cbarbaric\u201d bullfight in southern France&#8230; Didier Guillaume attended a bullfight in the southwestern French town of Bayonne with Jacqueline Gourault, the French minister in charge of territorial cohesion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,25],"tags":[27,28,30],"class_list":["post-758009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758011,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758009\/revisions\/758011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}