The Franz Weber Foundation, an international nature defense organization headquartered in Switzerland, filed a criminal complaint against the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE) this Monday. It is against Children’s Rights by continuing to broadcast about bullfighting and hunting in its regular program. Therefore, it is against regulations such as the Law on the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence and the General Audio-Visual Law. These contents will be ‘Tender zero’ and ‘Jara y Sedal’.
Legislation on violence to animals 5.9. The company’s own Style Manual has been added in the section stating the following. “Children can see the violence inflicted on animals with suffering, so we should definitely avoid it” . Instead, he says, this is exactly what “you can see, for example, in Tendido Cero from La 2, scenes of explicit atrocity flavored with a narrative conducive to these events.”
international NGO, various Research has already shown the link between exposure to violence and the development of mental health problems. emphasizes that participation in acts of animal abuse during childhood and adolescence, as well as at this age, is “an important marker for antisocial attitudes and aggressive behavior”.
“Duration The Minors Act establishes that it is the duty of all minors to respect animals.RTVE’s strategy promotes bullfighting and hunting in the so-called ‘child protection program’ through explicit visuals as well as advertising actions for related products,” he adds.
The emissions will also collide with LOMLOE, the last education reform approved by the Cortes Generales. Goals where children know and value animalsBehaviors that support empathy and care are adopted. “All This is inconsistent with the encouragement, encouragement and disclosure of hunting and bullfighting. activities based on the use of violence among young people”, points to the Franz Weber Foundation.
In this sense, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, concern about exposure of minors to any form of violenceand in 2018 Spain publicly warned and urged to keep minors away from bullfighting events.
With this legal and scientific background, the Franz Weber Foundation criticizes RTVE for “insisting on it”. trivializing violence, trivializing the use of firearms It is used to kill animals and as a spectacle to directly mistreat cattle”.
Preventing violent societies
Research conducted since the 1990s shows that involvement in acts of animal abuse during childhood and adolescence is an important marker, as well as antisocial attitudes and aggressive behavior. It is a predictor of interpersonal violence in adulthood.
The Department of Agriculture’s strategy explores a widely studied issue of the interrelated notion of violence and “how it determines that young people who abuse animals at an early age are more likely to justify a parent to attack them.” children and a man’s assault on his wife (Flynn, 1999)”.
On the other hand, incentiveTV hunting also means deliberately hiding the truth of an activity that killed 63 people in Spain. In the 2010-2020 period, 483 people were injured in various ways.
Rubén Pérez, the NGO’s campaign manager, says: “TVE must follow legal guidelines that state the need to empathize with animals from an early age, and encouraging them to watch hunts or bullfights, of course, does not seem like the best precedent for public television.
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Source: Informacion
