Five Bulls Escape: for twenty days fugitives in the woods
In mid-May five bulls escaped from the farmhouse where they were confined to be bred as rodeo bulls. Twenty days after their escape, three of them are still free and are hiding in the woods between San Gillio and Druento in the province of Turin. For their capture a disproportionate amount of forces has been deployed. As reported by some newspapers:
“Tower headlights to illuminate the night, drones with thermal imaging cameras flying over the 20 square kilometers of scrub brush in spots, cows used as “bait” and fences set up to trap them, luring them with food. Not only that, alerted area ranchers and volunteers looking for fresh tracks. And dozens and dozens of men of civil protection, municipal police and animal guards who have been working non-stop for days.”
Unfortunately, the escape of two of the five bulls was cut short. Saturday night one of them was run over and died while the second was captured the following evening.
One of the three remaining free bulls finally was isolated from the rest of the group tonight and is still surrounded. The intentions would be to wait for him to calm down so that they can anesthetize him without him running away.
About the run over bull who has died, journalists have restricted themselves to convey relief because the man who drove the car resulted unharmed. There’s no space to analyse the exploitation that has pushed the animals into escaping and that has, for one of them, led to death. Not a word about the reasons that have created this situations. Cruelty is only mentioned when it is gratuitous, unjustified. To kill these fugitive bulls would be cruel, but cage and exploit them in the shows not. Institutions hope that bulls will be captured without any “damage to things or people” and that they will go back to be exploited “in accompliance with current regulations and rules”.
Priorities are quite clear: first people and property and at last the bulls, which often are not even mentioned. The obvious priority list of a speciesist capitalist system.
We oppose the speciesist ideology that arise from the authorities’ responses to the five bulls’ escape. Our solidarity goes to the fugitives and to everybody who is still caged in breeding farms.
Sources:
https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/05/25/news/prosegue_senza_sosta_la_caccia_ai_tori_da_rodeo_in_fuga_nel_torinese_con_droni_esche_e_recinti_come_trappola-302685373/https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/05/23/news/tori_in_fuga_un_auto_investe_e_uccide_uno_degli_animali_finiti_sulla_strada_provinciale-302341799/https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/05/21/news/torino_la_grande_fuga_dei_tori_da_rodeo_fuggiti_dall_allevamento_da_una_settimana_nascosti_nei_boschi-302150399/https://www.quotidianopiemontese.it/2021/05/22/ancora-in-fuga-i-5-tori-a-la-mandria-frediani-gli-animali-vengano-presi-in-sicurezza/
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