TODAY DAILY: "The bulls, the source of wealth" taurOTAKUS
" What happens in the square is the real life. And life is always accompanied by death. A bullfight is a proclamation of life over death. View or José Morante bullfight Thomas is finding that life is really hard. Despite death. Bullfighting is an affirmation of life over death ". This argument stems from an amateur, Juan Medina, who in recent weeks has entered the fray for his economic research information linked to the party. Badajoz He is professor of Economic Theory at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Extremadura.
is also a fan of bullfighting and, as stated, it takes commitment to the party and the supporters should get involved. Everyone from the plot. And yours is the field economic. Hence, take a web space - escalafon.blogspot.com - to publish studies in defense of the bulls. "Actually I started to create an alternative to the traditional ladder which does not count the number of festivals and awards, but pondering all the places of first and second excluding the third and giving special weight to Madrid and Seville," says Medina, decided after the abolition of Catalan contribute something to the party through their research. Since then he has published several, including the relationship between the decrease in the number of festivals and fall of the housing bubble, the evolution the last century of the party and its relationship to historical and social developments or the provision of bullfighting to the coffers of the state in terms of VAT, not to mention the benefits generated by trade shows in one location.
As to the latter work, according to their study, a week of bullfights is six million euros for a city. "The weekend Olivenza are more than two million" he said. How do you calculate the volume of business?. Juan Medina notes that when doing impact studies on the one hand consider the direct effect, which would be the ticket, "indirect" costs would result for example in catering and transport, and finally the induced-commerce or suppliers, among others. "Through a multiplier of national accounts estimate the overall effect. Olivenza demand increases because they will sell more tickets and 15,000 people, generating economic activity in many sectors and involving those two million euros at the end. Taking into account that the City contributes 80,000, the cost of the subsidy is brutal, "he argues.
subsidies are a topic of controversy. An animal rights organization released a long time that the bulls were costing the state 564 million euros. A free newspaper took the number and spread from its pages, without the contrast study was never published and has not been reliable and objective data. "I never have told the anti-bullfighting which brings the party and they always argue it costs. Also exposed time and again that bullfighting interested only 37% of the population. That's 17 million and a half English. Any sector that had a potential market of 17 million and average consumers would be delighted and, however, that data that is beneficial to the bull, serves as an argument for anti-bullfighting "he says.
With regard to VAT, the last year in Spain sold 9,850,000 tickets for performances of bulls entering the box office approximately 365 million euros. The VAT amount to 41 million, which would bring to state coffers, making the Bulls in the highest-grossing cultural event.
However, according to John Medina economic arguments are not the only ones who can wield in defense of the party. There are four pillars that support the reasons for saying yes to the bulls. " Would be the ecological arguments, they guarantee the maintenance of biodiversity in an ecosystem is unique as the pasture and promote a sustainable rural development would also be cultural, because in a world increasingly globalized, the bulls bring cultural diversity, not forgetting the economic as it is source of wealth and employment and finally, ethical. In his opinion, bullfighting teaches values \u200b\u200bsuch as integrity and manage to overcome the fear of pain or death, respect for the contrary, as the horned bull honors enough to endanger his life before him, the intelligence to solve and understand the response during the fight or the authenticity of the fight.
All these arguments could provoke controversy among the anti-bullfighting, most animalistic comparing man with an animal. "They deny the uniqueness of the human condition, which is precisely the basis of all ethics: recognition of human exceptionalism. Those who are against the Bulls believe they have a monopoly on sensitivity. Just pull the story or periodicals to know that the first animal welfare laws were approved by Nazi Germany in 1933 or at the same time banning fox hunting in Britain, Blair entered the war in Iraq, "notes after remember that the bull is given the opportunity to end the life of the bullfighter.
Torture is another argument to demonstrate against bullfighting. "Making someone suffering helpless without risk itself is torture, but not when you can torture from the femoral at any time in its torturer 'tells. Juan argues that the bulls have not been able to convey the values \u200b\u200band all the good that has the party, nor refute arguments lacking in logic or sense. This has led to create a sense of crisis, especially after the abolition of Catalan.
"The bulls are not anachronistic, but timeless. Appear to be in permanent crisis, but is due its timeless nature. What does exist is a destaurinización of society, as they face a wider range of leisure activities than before and also more affordable. There is also a trivialization of cultural tastes and people live a little mean. Everything is authentic moves over the account and death is missing. The bulls are neither light nor simple. Are real, like life and that authenticity and emotion is unbearable for those living half immersed in social correction, "explains Professor Medina.
with arguments and reasons as studied as his party certainly has many years continuity. Now we just need to disseminate these ideas and say without fear of what people would say that one is fond of the noble art of tablespoons.
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