Bullfighting? Do you approve of this!?

   Bullfighting is a common so called 'sport' that happens in mainly Portugal, Mexico, Spain and other European countries. It dates back 300 years and is a tradition in most of those countries. People on horse back will target the bull with brightly colored spears that look almost like tinsel. Most people think the color of the matadors cape is red to attract the bull. Well, cattle are color blind. The red cape is used to cover up the blood that is shed.
    People that are for bullfighting will often argue that it is a thrilling sport that involves skill and agility. Those people are usually very bias considering most of them are from or originate form bullfighting countries or bullfights. People who are against bull fighting say that it involves pointless suffering and cruelty to the animal. Each year, for 300 fights, 2,500 bulls are killed just in Portugal. 30,000 are killed in a ring in Spain every year as well. What some people don't realize is that multiple animals are being abuse. The horse calvalieros ride will clash into the bull, sometimes being injured.
   In Portugal, it is illegal to kill a bull in the ring, so it is removed and slaughtered because a bull can only fight once.
Only 52 deaths of humans have been counted since the 18th century. A bull dies every single bullfight and a human dies when the bull does what it was trained to do. People can't enter the ring without knowing the dangers, they know. The bull on the other hand,  does not know that it is going to take its last breaths that day.
   It is a tradition, but that is no legitimate reason to abuse, torture and kill God's gifts. It is SELFISH that we value human life more than any other animals life.  People who are for bullfighting will say thing like "Well, most of those haters eat beef right?" There is a difference. We need meat. We do not need to spear these animals and torture them. The same goes for "Running With The Bulls" What do you people have against these poor creatures.
  What makes the matter worse, the toreo will sometimes slice the bulls ears off when it dies and throw it into the crowd. The point  is that bull fighting should have been banned a long time ago just as bear-baiting was.
  
What Happens?

        The bull is abused for two days very harshly before a fight and is weakened, half blinded, and tortured. I many cases the bull will have wet newspaper stuffed in his ears, vaseline is rubbed into his eyes to blur his vision; cotton is stuffed up his nostrils to cut off his respiration and a needle is stuck into his genitals. In addition, they drug the bull to pep him up or slow him down. They stress the bull out by keeping hm in a small dark pen for a couple days to disorientate him. A trumpet is played in the last "act" to signal the death of the bull. The kill usually lasts 8 minutes and is done by the main matador. He is supposed to sever the artery near the heart with one thrust of the sword — in fact, this never happens. It often takes 2-3 times before the creature is mercifully released by death. By this time, the bull’s lungs and heart will be punctured and he always vomits blood. Sometimes, the bull will try to rise again on his knees, only to receive mutilation. He will fall down and be tortured further with no dignity to leave this world in peace. his ears and tail are cut off (often when he is fully conscious), and his broken, bleeding body is dragged around the ring by mules, to which he is attached by an apparatus made of wood and chains. Sickening.
   Like I said earlier, the bull is not the only one to be tortured. Hundreds of horses die when they are killed by the pain-crazed bull. They stuff the horses ears with wet newspaper blind fold it and cut the vocal cords so it is unable to scream. After a horse is injured, it is let out of the ring, given surgery, then put right back in. The horses are kept in crude conditions and their life expectancy is short.
   "But it is a part of our culture" some people would say. Well, that EXCUSE was used for: Witch-burning, Bear-baiting, and other evil events. "Culture" is not some magic word and is just labeling that is cruel and makes it sound OK. When someone is injured or killed in a bull fight, a rodeo, or running with the bulls. I have no sympathy for them. I could care less. You know the dangers of it before you do it. It is karma. Man abuses an animal, then the animal fights back. It is your own fault if you die or you are injured but the bull is always killed anyway. Who really wins here. And people call this an 'art' or a 'sport'. Sick!

Matador repeatedly stabbing a bull.

An inocent horse who happened to get in the way.