PETA offers money to Spanish city to 'permanently' ban San Fermin festival

Animal rights group PETA has offered 250,000 euros that is over Rs 2 crores to the Spanish city of Pamplona which hosts the world-famous bull racing festival.

This money was given to the city so that they ban the bull racing permanently but the money offered is puny as compared to the revenue the city makes due to the festival. An eight-day San Fermin fiesta fetches 74 million euros.

In a letter written by PETA, it said: "The Running of the Bulls and bullfights ... are a vestige of a far less enlightened time when people didn't understand that animals feel pain and thought nothing of risking fellow humans' safety." This letter was sent to the city mayor Enrique Maya and was accessed by Reuters.

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The city officials have called off this year's week-long festival for the first time in four decades. This may be due to the coronavirus cases in the country.

PETA has voiced its protest against the festival that was made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel 'The Sun Also Rises'. The animal rights group has always displayed visually striking protests on the eve of the infamous San Fermin.