Over at Huffington Post, there’s a story about a Spanish Matador who was gored in the throat during a bullfight. The only part of this article that left me feeling sad was the following quote:
The bull, however, was quickly killed by other matadors.
Am I a card-holding member of PETA? Not likely.
What the fuck is wrong with this world that it’s still acceptable for sadistic maniacs to torment animals for the sport of others? What the fuck is wrong the world that when the animal responds in kind, the animal is punished?
That’s a load of bollocks. A load of fucking shit. There is no moral justification in killing an animal that is only responding out of anger and frustration from being needlessly tormented by a human being. Let’s look at the Wikipedia description of bull-fighting:
Bullfighting (also known as tauromachy… “bull-fight”; or as corrida de toros in Spanish) is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, some cities in southern France and in several Latin American countries, in which one or more bulls are ritually killed in a bullring as a public spectacle. It can be considered a blood sport.
The entire “sport” is a farce. It’s an exercise in sadism, and grown out of some pathetic attitude that humans can do whatever they want to non-humans.
I grew up in a household where as the youngest child I was tormented, both by my brother and my father. They thought it was all in good fun, and felt that if I got really really angry, then I was being a bad sport. This is the “bad sport” attitude that leads to animals being killed for rightly retaliating to being tormented.
So I can understand the bull’s attitude. Just like I can sympathise with a pet being teased because it’s “all in good fun”.
It’s not. Not. One. Bit.
This bull fighter got what he deserved. The bull however, didn’t.
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At least the bull had a chance to defend itself. Any idea how your meat has been treated before it is sealed and put in the super market?
That’s a specious argument premised on the notion that the bull had a fighting chance. The bull should never have been put in that position in the first place. With regulations regarding the humane treatment of animals I trust that any meat that I eat has not been tortured and tormented. Where I know this isn’t the case, I don’t eat it. (That’s why for instance I only ever buy free range eggs.)
As far as I know there is only two kinds of rights for life:
1 Human rights
2 animal rights
Isn’t that a bit too black and white for such a complicated topic?
Regards,
Johannes
What’s black and white for me is that I strongly believe that no human has the right to torment an animal for either their amusement, or the amusement of others.
I’ve always found bull fighting (although this is really a stupid title for it) to be horrid. I can’t stand any sort of mistreatment of animals, particularly when it’s for someone else’s amusement. It should be banned along with any other form of animal cruelty posing as ‘sport’.
ps I wonder what the laws in Spain are like re animal cruelty?? ie is it legal for animals to be tortured and murdered anywhere else in the country? Or do they make an exception for this particular ‘sport’??
(Interestingly as a comparison, cock fighting is illegal in Spain (with the exception of the Canary Islands). So while it’s OK to torture and torment bulls, roosters aren’t allowed to be tormented. Also interestingly, while bull fighting is legal in Portugal, it’s not to the point of killing the bull. How ‘humane’.)