Littlelegs
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cortez- I condemn them too. Don't see the relevance of the Roman history really, I mean they used to crucifie people too, doesn't mean I'd condone it as a tourist attraction
English attitudes to bullfighting- opinions for project
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GinaGeo
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For me the difference between Fox Hunting and Bull Fighting is that if the fox is fit and healthy it will get away. The Bull is sentenced to a certain, prolonged, painful death. I don't know the history of bull fighting, but I do recognise who superbly trained the horses are. This doesn't make it OK, but just an observation.
I don't eat meat, buy free range eggs and try to buy milk where the cows lived outdoors and not kept in barns. My family eat meat and I buy free-range chickens etc. I don't have a problem with animals being used for human consumption as long as they had a good quality of life and were killed as quickly and as humanely as possible. The same goes for milking cows and laying chickens. They should have a good quality of life and not be kept cooped up. I'd like to hope that all of those anti Fox hunting and anti
Bull fighting do the same.
I do agree that Fox Hunting is necessary. Foxes are pests, they're not bred to be killed, but they do cause problems for farmers, particularly if they're injured or old as that's when they start to take livestock. These are the foxes the hunts target. Shooting does not, the healthy Dog fox is a better prize. Foxes also have a very good immune system, so poisoning and shooting can take hours, days or weeks to kill one. This is not humane. I don't believe that digging foxes out is right. If the fox goes to ground then he's won and should be left to run another day.
I don't agree with Bull Fighting, it's a long, painful and torturous death that could be carried out far more humanely.
I don't eat meat, buy free range eggs and try to buy milk where the cows lived outdoors and not kept in barns. My family eat meat and I buy free-range chickens etc. I don't have a problem with animals being used for human consumption as long as they had a good quality of life and were killed as quickly and as humanely as possible. The same goes for milking cows and laying chickens. They should have a good quality of life and not be kept cooped up. I'd like to hope that all of those anti Fox hunting and anti
Bull fighting do the same.
I do agree that Fox Hunting is necessary. Foxes are pests, they're not bred to be killed, but they do cause problems for farmers, particularly if they're injured or old as that's when they start to take livestock. These are the foxes the hunts target. Shooting does not, the healthy Dog fox is a better prize. Foxes also have a very good immune system, so poisoning and shooting can take hours, days or weeks to kill one. This is not humane. I don't believe that digging foxes out is right. If the fox goes to ground then he's won and should be left to run another day.
I don't agree with Bull Fighting, it's a long, painful and torturous death that could be carried out far more humanely.
Tiffany
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I think all blood sports including bull fighting and fox hunting are cruel and can't believe people get enjoyment from seeing an animal chased, provoked, tormented before finally killing it 
Ollie's Mum
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Fox hunting was banned with the act of 2004. Hunts follow trails these days.
showingmadfilly
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My thoughts can be down in one word 'cruel' I think its a sick tradition.
Lulwind
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There is a book called something like the last English bullfighter that I read a couple of years ago in an attempt to see both sides of the argument. Have to say it put me off bullfighting even more. In SW France there are some events with cows that are not killed but still put in a situation where they are frightened and have no means of escape.
Would point out that I am pro hunting
Would point out that I am pro hunting
perfect11s
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It's not fighting its just a Ponce in a gay looking outfit torturing a bull... End of......
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tallyho!
Following a strict mediterranean diet...
^^ well put p11s! 
brighteyes
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I find the whole bull fighting business sickening and unjustifiable. It's primitive and there is no excuse whatsoever for it.
I'm not sure you can tar every national of every country which indulges in barbarism (in the eye of civilised and thinking people) as there are people in UK who are outraged by the hunting of wild mammals by dogs and mounted followers. This is likely true in other countries, such as Spain and Japan? I hope so, for there is a chance the excessively and unnecessarily cruel practises will eventually be stopped.
I'm not sure you can tar every national of every country which indulges in barbarism (in the eye of civilised and thinking people) as there are people in UK who are outraged by the hunting of wild mammals by dogs and mounted followers. This is likely true in other countries, such as Spain and Japan? I hope so, for there is a chance the excessively and unnecessarily cruel practises will eventually be stopped.