If there’s one way to show the world that bullfighting is cruel, we think it might be to strip off, cover yourself in fake blood, stick a ‘banderillo’ in your back and lay across the streets of Pamplona. That’s why on Saturday over 60 activists from all over the world – seriously, Austria, Germany, Portugal, France, even Florida! – got (mostly) naked and protested against the San Fermin festival, which is currently underway.

It all kicked off this morning with the Running of the Bulls, where bulls are chased through the slippery and winding streets, being hit by runners as they race past. While human injuries are often reported (nine people this year already), it’s the bulls who face a deadly fate, leading onto the bloody bullfights and a gory slaughter.

Check out RunningOfTheNudes.com to see photos of past naked events to end bullfighting and Running of the Bulls.

We all know the Running of the Bulls sucks. I mean, it really sucks. How can it be fun to chase bulls through the streets, hitting, taunting and then finally killing them in a bloodbath in front of thousands of spectators? So think what a pleasant surprise it was for the 30,000 strong crowd last weekend, when instead of bulls racing through the streets and being stabbed to death in the bull-fighting arena, two Formula-1 cars took their place. The drivers, David Coulthard and Sebastien Bourdais, tore through the city early on the morning of June 28, finishing the “Red Bull Run” with car demonstrations in both the bull-fighting arena and a track.

Now that’s what I call playing nicely. Check out more photos and videos of the event here.

You may have heard that PETA’s Managing Director Ingrid Newkirk was arrested in Coimbatore, India, the other day for blindfolding a Mahatma Gandhi statue during the notorious Jallikatu. Why did she do it?

As she explains in her letter to The Times newspaper, who covered the story, these tormented bulls are treated in much the same way as those forced to take part in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. She was simply trying to “symbolically shield” his eyes from the cruel spectacle taking place in front of him.

You can read more about what horrors go on at Jallikatu here.

“Videos of Jallikattu now circulating on the Internet show what the bulls endure and that veterinarians cannot possibly monitor the animals to prevent the common practice of dosing them with crude alcohol and rubbing chilli peppers into their eyes,” writes Ingrid. Right on!

Luckily for us PETA folks and the animals, Ingrid was released and allowed to continue her India tour.