{"id":8816,"date":"2013-05-15T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2013-05-15T07:57:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:57:42","slug":"a-bear-market-in-bullfighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/a-bear-market-in-bullfighting\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bear Market In Bullfighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051513_1154_ABearMarket1.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bullfighting industry in Spain is struggling writes David Rom\u00e1n:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animal rights concerns about the events in which the bulls almost always die are causing regions across Spain to ban the $3.3 billion industry<\/li>\n<li>Regional governments used to hold annual celebrations that would include bullfighting events; however with the recent European recession, governments have been unable to afford the events<\/li>\n<li>The regulations around bullfighting also mean that it remains expensive. Each matador is legally required to pay for at least six assistants<\/li>\n<li>Due to the blood and gore television channels have increasingly declined to showcase the events<\/li>\n<li>The government also raised taxes on tickets to novilladas \u2013 fights between matadors in training and young bulls.<\/li>\n<li>With the increase in prices and the decline in television coverage bullfighting may fail to reach the next generation of Spanish citizens and the bullfighting tradition may come to a gentle end<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the economics of the bullfighting industry, those desperately working to keep the industry alive, the ethical problems with the practice, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324766604578459073959438626.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324766604578459073959438626.html\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/05\/assorted-links-791.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bullfighting industry in Spain is struggling writes David Rom\u00e1n: Animal rights concerns about the events in which the bulls almost always die are causing regions across Spain to ban the $3.3 billion industry Regional governments used to hold annual celebrations that would include bullfighting events; however with the recent European recession, governments have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051513_1154_ABearMarket1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}