Paint the town red: Snapshots from 'La Tomatina' 2016
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BUNOL: 150,000 kilos of ripe, red tomatoes were delivered to the village of Bunol, west of the Spanish city of Valencia, on Wednesday in preparation of "La Tomatina".
The festival of tomatoes is a yearly occurrence in the village where tourists gather in large numbers to participate in the hour-long fight.
The festival has been a fixture in the village culture since the end of World War 2. But International exposure in the recent years has greatly increased the popularity of La Tomatina.
The village prepares for the fight by covering up balconies, houses and shopfronts in plastic and locking them down as thousands of participants, including both tourists and locals enjoy the day by reveling in a mad food fight all over the streets of Bunol.
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Sep 01, 2016 05:24pm
Height of food wastage. :(
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Sep 01, 2016 05:55pm
Highly indecent and irresponsible behavior at the time when more than 60% of world population can afford to have one meal a day.
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Sep 01, 2016 06:23pm
what a wastage of food, shameful...
just to draw a parallel, in India people have reduced use of milk on dieties in temples....a lot of idols are also equipped with cintainer underneath to store milk which can later be reused...
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Sep 01, 2016 06:23pm
Nice...a bit like Holi.
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Sep 01, 2016 06:45pm
With hunger across the world this seems to be criminal
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Sep 01, 2016 06:58pm
This festival is an immense waste of food. Moreover, this festival is celebrated in just one village of Spain whereas Holi, the 'real' festival of colors and masti is celebrated by millions across India.
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Sep 01, 2016 07:21pm
Its their culture and they have right to celebrate it.
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Sep 02, 2016 12:38am
@Abhay Agreed
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Sep 02, 2016 12:38am
@akber_eh Not everybody has taken responsibility of third world countries' people's failure. They work hard to keep their country prosperous and have every right to enjoy it.
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Sep 02, 2016 12:39am
@Soulspeek its their culture ..let them enjoy it..not criticize it.
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Sep 02, 2016 07:56am
I am sorry but there are people who are dying of hunger and would do anything to get their hands on any food item.
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Sep 02, 2016 07:57am
@Abhay - There is a thing called responsibility and this act is not considered as a responsible one.
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Sep 02, 2016 09:58am
What a criminal waste. Instead,tomatoes should be given to the poor and the needy.
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Sep 02, 2016 11:30am
Starving kids in Africa could have eaten these tomatoes. What a waste of food in Spain.
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Sep 02, 2016 12:12pm
@Abhay yes
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Sep 02, 2016 02:22pm
It's their culture. But it is uncultured behavior. Even if food is abundant, still food requires respect.
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Sep 02, 2016 10:53pm
Did we learn any lesson by looking at this beautiful pictures, I am not against our tradition but what I like how man and woman join togather in festivals, I am hoping our people man or woman, hand in hand do our traditional festivals, we have to come out from our own created hard shell cover (its hard) but we will do it.
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Sep 02, 2016 10:58pm
In our society we think man is everything but actually woman is everything. She bears child and carry heavy weight for 9 months, then she is first teacher to her new born, if she is educated definitely her children will be educated. Woman education is far more important than man. As long as we will live like illiterate its become very very hard to live on this planet.
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Sep 03, 2016 01:28am
Dumbest thing ever!!
But wait its happening in west then its cool thing.
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Sep 03, 2016 08:06am
don't we spend millions on national day celebration..Can't that money be used to feed poor..
Let us not get too carried away by this millions go hungry..
It is a festival..They have right to celebrate it..You are welcome to join in but please do not be critical..
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Sep 03, 2016 08:06am
Excellent PHOTOS.. My compliments..
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Sep 03, 2016 12:01pm
Well educated and highly civilized Western culture...!
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Sep 03, 2016 12:33pm
Civilized world ? On the name of festival, tons of fruit wasted, and then to clean the city water will be wasted.
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Sep 03, 2016 02:40pm
Damnnn, i was right there on this balcony most of the time in festival. :,( :,( why not in photo ??? i really wanted one.
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Sep 03, 2016 04:58pm
Sad to see so many wasting food when millions die of hunger everyday across the Planet.
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Sep 04, 2016 07:25am
120,000 pounds of tomatos used in this festival. if they gave 1 pound of tomatoes to the hungry people in their neighborhood, they could have fed 120,000 people at least for a day.
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Sep 04, 2016 03:38pm
when more than half of world population is starving, it is extremely disturbing to see such a waste of food just in the name of some sic festival... what a shame!
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