Thanks to a request for donations, the bullfighting youth of France was able to finance a film in which a young veterinarian and breeder of fighting bulls testifies.
Caroline Fano is 29 years old. She is a young veterinarian, currently in Ireland, she will soon return to Miramas (Bouches du Rhône) to take over the family breeding of fighting bulls. When she began her studies, she admits that she questioned bullfighting and deconstructed everything. But she returns to bullfighting even more convinced than before.
Thanks to a call for donations
She is the protagonist of the clip “Corrida, a threatened minority” put online by the Union of young bullfighters of France, in collaboration with the Union of young people of Provence and Languedoc for the defense of traditions and the collective Touche not my passions.
A few months ago, when Aymeric Caron announced that he would present a bill to abolish bullfighting, which will be debated on November 24 in the National Assembly, within the parliamentary niche of La France Insoumise, young people, who lack the financial resources of the anti-bullfighting associations, have launched an appeal for donations. It has allowed them to raise almost 20,000 euros which, between the production of the clip and its promotion, will be totally re-injected into this operation.
Caroline, veterinarian and rancher
“We wanted to make a clip that spoke to an uninformed audience, not necessarily attracted to bullfighting and unfamiliar with the context of breeding fighting bulls. As evidence, the choice of a young woman was obvious, even more so that of Caroline who, her double hat of veterinarian and breeder, dismantles all the lies conveyed by the anti”, explains Corentin Carpentier, the Nîmes member of all the establishments at the origin of this clip.
“The only death that respects the profound nature of the fighting bull”
In five minutes, Caroline Fano, in the midst of her bulls, sometimes alongside her grandfather, explains the role of breeding, its importance in the environment, her choice to love bullfighting and her relationship with death. . “We agree to raise the animals, but we are ashamed to kill them. What bullfighting offers, he says, is to let an animal live a life of freedom for five years and come together to celebrate its death and not hide it. It’s the only death that respects the profound nature of the fighting bull,” says Caroline Fano. “The minority we represent, she concludes, is threatened with extinction because people totally disconnected from our history and who don’t know it want to prevent us from existing”.
