Cruelty To Bulls In Spain

[JumpTheMoon1]

This needs stopping - A bull with its horns set on fire by some idiot human and being used as entertainment to run in the streets.
It all needs banning - respect the animals.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/bull-horns-fire-gores-man-164714792.html

 

[Birker2020]

This needs stopping - A bull with its horns set on fire by some idiot human and being used as entertainment to run in the streets.
It all needs banning - respect the animals.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/bull-horns-fire-gores-man-164714792.html

Totally diabolical. How they can think that is entertainment is beyond me.

I won't say the bloke deserved to die because that would be wrong, but the bull is slaughtered after I believe and he doesn't deserve to be tormented to death either.

 

[Rumtytum]

Can’t bring myself to watch it.
I despair.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Humans never cease to horrify me with their cruelty. I just cannot see why anyone thinks this is acceptable.

 

[eahotson]

Disgraceful.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I have zero sympathy for anyone who is gored, killed, maimed or otherwise injured taking part in these sports.

 

[PeterNatt]

Totally barbaric.

 

[splashgirl45]

I won’t watch anything like this as it stays in my head and I keep on seeing it for days, it’s bad enough reading about it, poor animal , what is the matter with some people ?

 

[meleeka]

I’m amazed that this still goes on in 2022. How can anyone claim to ve a civilised society when this is allowed?

 

[ycbm]

They still have prolonged torturing and killing bulls by a man in a fancy suit as mass entertainment in a big arena. It beggars belief.
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[Ratface]

It's entirely vile and there is, in my opinion, no reason for such arrant cruelty to exist.
I console myself with the thought that when they (the people who raise, sell and procure these bulls) die, they will arrive (briefly) in Heaven and discover God is a large black bull. Or a picador's horse. They are often Arabians, apparently. My particular breed.
If tourists stopped attending these hideous events, they might die out, but I think that it is, at present, a source of income in a relatively poor country.

 

[HashRouge]

The younger generations in Spain are much more likely to be anti-bullfighting. I've got my fingers crossed these sorts of traditions will be gone in the next few years.

 

[shortstuff99]

It's entirely vile and there is, in my opinion, no reason for such arrant cruelty to exist.
I console myself with the thought that when they (the people who raise, sell and procure these bulls) die, they will arrive (briefly) in Heaven and discover God is a large black bull. Or a picador's horse. They are often Arabians, apparently. My particular breed.
If tourists stopped attending these hideous events, they might die out, but I think that it is, at present, a source of income in a relatively poor country.

They don't bullfight with horses in Spain anymore.

They do in Portugal and use Lusitanos.

I hate bullfighting, I mean I don't eat cows anyway as I feel bad about it.

 

[HashRouge]

They don't bullfight with horses in Spain anymore.

They do in Portugal and use Lusitanos.

I hate bullfighting, I mean I don't eat cows anyway as I feel bad about it.

Picadors are different and are still used in Spanish bullfighting as far as I know. They are mounted, and are used to weaken the bull (with lances) in the first stage of the bullfight. Afterwards you have the banderilleros, then the matador/ torero themselves.

 

[ponynutz]

I haven't watched it because I can't cope with these sorts of things but I'm also always amazed by how cruel humans really are.

 

[shortstuff99]

Picadors are different and are still used in Spanish bullfighting as far as I know. They are mounted, and are used to weaken the bull (with lances) in the first stage of the bullfight. Afterwards you have the banderilleros, then the matador/ torero themselves.

I had been told (in Spain) that they weren't used anymore, but I can't say I go watch so could have been miss told.

 

[Ratface]

Picadors are different and are still used in Spanish bullfighting as far as I know. They are mounted, and are used to weaken the bull (with lances) in the first stage of the bullfight. Afterwards you have the banderilleros, then the matador/ torero themselves.

Thanks, HashRouge. You have elegantly explained the nasty scenario.
I still hope that the people involved meet a very angry bull at some point . . .

 

[Barton Bounty]

Spain has some weird traditions! I hate any animal cruelty.
Hopefully will be gone in the next few years. I remember when I worked in a travel agency I had clients looking to go to spain for the tomato throwing festival! I meant, fgs ? just going there specifically to be pelted with ?

 

[ycbm]

I had been told (in Spain) that they [picadors] weren't used anymore, but I can't say I go watch so could have been miss told.

I think the spiking is absolutely abhorrent but even if they stopped that there is no place in the world these days for taking a frightened and angry animal and taunting it to attack you, in an arena it can't escape from, for the mass entertainment of a paying audience (for what my opinion is worth).

Culture and tradition be damned!
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