Today I came across an article about bullfights and how cruel it is. I myself am really against bullfights and cannot bear the idea of how bulls are suffering in this scenario. For me personally, “bullfighting” is torturing animals to death…and why? – because of money and the amusement of people. So, first having given my opinion about it in a few sentences, I want to point out some essential facts about this Spanish ritual so that you can form your own opinion about it.
So what it is “bullfighting“?
Bullfighting is a traditional spectacel of Spain, Portugal and some parts of Latin America and even France. The public “show” consists of professional matadors and his escorts( bandarrilleros ) who fight a number of bulls throughout an afternoon with the ultimate goal of killing them by inserting a sword into its backbone. In order to do so, they must rip and weaken the back of its muscular neck to reach its backbone with more ease. The escorts achieve this by sticking small short spears into their back.
Why is it still so widely excepted?
You can often read or hear about bullfight being an art. To latter, I found a really good article you should have a look at.
Maybe a short video about the question: Art or Cruelty to animals? will help you to form an appropriate opinion about the whole thing.
In my opinion, this scenario is nothing else than animal abuse. How can one enjoy watching an animal suffering ( please have a look at this article, it really is worth it) and at the end being killed by the ridiculous matador. I mean, yes of course, what he is doing there in the arena without or with horse is certainly a matter of years of training, but how can he look the bull in the eyes and kill him without any bad conscience???
Furthermore, it isn’t even a fair “fight” at all! First the bull is injured by the picadores and only when the animal is already weakened and obviously totally exhausted by pain and loss of blood, the so-called `brave’ matador steps in and finishes the job. ISN’T HE A BRAVE MAN ?!?!?
Please tell me what you think about it. Have you already been to one?
I have already been to a bullfight and I really hate it as much as you do..
I think its a really bad thing and it should be prohibited. But in other countries most of the people don’t think about the animals but just about the “cool guys” fighting with bulls. I saw men at the stage yelling and having a lot of fun while I wasn’t able to watch this cruel scenario.
Good post!! Definitely an important topic which I am really interested in..
hey,
I agree, I totally hate bullfighting, in my opinion it’s nothing else but torturing an animal to death…and I don’t understand how people can watch it! and when I was in Spain I realized how famous and well-known the matadors are…that shocked me! I don’t think that they are cool or doing something extraordinary!!! but that’s only my opinion…
cheers
hey spainmania,
this is disgusting! How can people out of traditional reasons still stick to these procedures? Once, I have been to kind of a bullfight in Texas. It wasn’t as brutal as the ones you presented here but they still piqued the bull before letting it free and then cowboys came out and caught it with a lasso. The poor bull (not fully grown up ones by the way) was just extradited to the cowboy by not getting away from him… They didn’t kill them. But still, it was brutal enough and really not worth watching it! I couldn’t stand the helplessness of the animal…
So my answer is no, I would not buy a ticket to a bullfight. And I do think there are traditions that you don’t have to stick to forever. For this one, it’s definitely time to end it.