While most agree that bullfighting is more a combination of animal abuse and ritualistic slaughter than sport, it’s still extremely popular in some parts of the world, particularly Spain and Latin America.
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As early as the 1500s, Pope Pius the V called for an end to bullfighting and asked that “these cruel and disgraceful exhibitions of devils and not of men be abolished.”
Although the spectacles generally end with the animal being stabbed with a sword, they’re usually at the brink of death by that point and actually die of blood-loss and exhaustion.
Every once in a while the tables are turned and the suffering bull gets a shot at the matador. Check out what happened last week in Madrid.
Warning... it’s graphic.
Some argue that the torture and ritualistic killing of bulls for entertainment is a culturally important tradition. Others say that something being tradition doesn’t make it right; feeding Christians to lions was also a “culturally important tradition” at one point.
Was this a tragic on-the-job injury or a cruel animal abuser getting a taste of his own medicine?
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Want to take action to stop bullfighting? Write to the Spanish, Mexican, and French embassies here in the US and let them know you will not be visiting their country until the barbaric practice is outlawed. Tourism is big business…
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