Now, non-violent bullfights in Mexico

Mexico City's congress has voted to ban traditional bullfights and replace them with a new form of bloodless spectacle, marking the latest episode in a years-long legal battle to outlaw the practice in the capital.

- Agencies

Animal rights activists celebrated the move on Tuesday — even if it wasn't the total ban on bullfighting they had been pushing for.

The bullfighting industry rejected the new regulation and said they had not been consulted on it. At a press conference, Salvador Arias, a lawyer from Tauromaquia Mexicana, an organisation that defends bullfighting, said the proposal for bloodless bullfights resembled one that was tried and failed in the Balearic Islands in Spain, where it won little interest from fans and was eventually thrown out by a Spanish court.