Casa Rural Druna Barrio De Santa Gadea Abajo, Alfoz De Santa Gadea

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Meet Marta Jimeno, lead candidate for PACMA in the EU election. Marta is vicepresident of PACMA and lead candidate for the party in the EU election on 7th June in Spain. Marta has a degree in Veterinary Science in the branch of Animal Production, which she took at the University of León. She is a founding member of AVAT ( Society of Veterinarians for the Abolition of Bullfighting) . I was born in 1970 in Mondragón ( Guipúzcoa) . There I spent my childhood and secondary school years. At the time I used to be very keen on sports and I played basketball for the town’s team. When I was very young I started to feel an interest in the behaviour of other animals, which led me to the study of ethology, evolutive zoology and psychology. At 18 I went to the University of León to start my degree in Veterinary Science. During that time, I continued playing basketball. I took my degree in the branch of Animal Production. I chose this field of study, not because I particularly liked it, but because it was the one that worried me the most. Then I took some postgraduate courses on cetaceans, but eventually I decided to pursue my career on land. For 10 years now I have been working as a rural clinical vet in livestock extensive farming. With that work experience, and after overcoming a cancer, I decided it was time to start doing what I had always wanted to do: fight for the rights and freedom of non-human animals. One year ago, a few other colleagues and myself started the Society of Veterinarians for the Abolition of Bullfighting (AVAT) Nací en 1970 en Mondragon ( Guipúzcoa ) alli crecí, fui al instituto y jugué en el equipo de baloncesto de la ciudad . Desde adolescente me inquietaba el comportamiento de los demás seres animales por lo que comencé a interesarme por la etologia, la zoología evolutiva y la psicología . A los 18 años me fui a estudiar a la Facultad de Veterinaria de León también aquí seguí jugando a baloncesto . Me gradué como Veterinaria especialista en Producción Animal , justamente estudié esta especialidad por ser la que menos me gustaba pero la que mas me preocupaba. Hice cursos y asistí a varios congresos sobre cetáceos , pero decidí trabajar en tierra firme . He pasado 10 años trabajando como veterinaria clínica rural para ganadería extensiva de vacuno y equino. Con estos años de experiencia y tras superar un cáncer , decidí hacer lo que siempre quise, luchar por la defensa y libertad de los demás animales no humanos . Junto con otros compañeros de profesión hemos creado la primera asociación del mundo de veterinarios abolicionistas de la tauromaquia (AVAT).