posted Apr 18, 2009 8:27 PM by Patrick Bauer-Blank
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updated Aug 5, 2009 6:42 AM by Nathan Ladd
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Many people think bull fighting is a man showing bravery and courage, but we think it is plain old cruelty to animals. Also most people don’t really know what bull fighting is. Often it is called a “sport” but, we think it is just a poor bull going in to a death pit. It starts at about 5 other people or a gang antagonizing the bull long before the matador even arrives. The matador stabs the bull in the heart which is "supposed" to kill the bull right there, but most of the time the bull isn’t dead. When everyone claps and cheers the matador stabs him again! With a dagger in the bull’s head many times till he looks dead. Let’s start with the bulls. They are raised in places like puppy mills. There are a lot of bulls because once one is sold to a bull fighting arena, they are probably going to be killed.So it’s not like you can use the bull again. Meaning that they need a new innocent bull to butcher. The bull is locked in a metal cage with no food, water, or sunlight for more than 4 hours. Then right before they let it in to the arena they get speared with a ribbon then let out. Then the bull races out, not because it is angry but because it is frightened and confused. When he enters he is already injured. Bulls are also highly drugged In the ring 5 to 10 people stab the bull with short spears that cause massive blood loss. They get stuck in the bull’s skin and as he run around in panic and pain it cuts him even more. Every time he moves it cuts deeper into his skin. The spears are decorated and the crowd claps and cheers when one is stabbed into a bull. Also people sometimes use horses, but, they are blindfolded and uses as targets. When the bull charges at the horse, the person riding him spears the bull in the neck and shoulders.
At the end of the event, when the bull looks dead and has been thorough beaten up and after being stabbed numerous times it is hooked to some horses and dragged away. We have nothing against Mexican, Spanish, and Latin cultures that do this “sport" we just wish that the poor bulls wouldn't be hurt at all.
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