IF fewer tourists attended bullfights, it could put a stop to them. Apart from the bullfights, the fiestas they have in Spain can involve torturing all kinds of animals for pleasure.

But it is not just in Spain that such acts go on. In Greece and Turkey, great pain and suffering is inflicted on bears teaching them to dance.

If tourists did not have their photographs taken with the bears or give their owners money, it would stop.

In Egypt, horses, which are nothing more than skin and bone, have to pull overloaded trailers of sightseers. The horses don't get a rest and they are underfed.

I SMITH, Blackburn (full address received)

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