Sometimes I’d wish to hear only half of the noise on the topics which are most important to me. The big mouths in politics and media who always seem there, but not speaking the message we need most — in my opinion. Instead we let ourselves be distracted by power games, by the pressure to be morally right and by opportunistic politicians who are using an event to promote their own agenda, the hard way.

Whether it’s a bullfight, the slaughter of dozens of whales in a traditional hunt or the Islamic feast of sacrifice (Eid al-adha), nowhere should animal suffering be permitted. Torture and slaughter of animals isn’t culture, tradition or religion.