What is wrong with Bullfighting?
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From: pearl on 24 Sep 2006 06:14 The League Against Cruel Sports has launched a campaign against bullfighting. After more than 80 years of opposition to traditional British bloodsports, we believe the time is right to address another so-called 'sport' which depends on money that is generated from British tourists The League opposes all forms of bullfighting, including the misleadingly named 'bloodless bullfighting'. All bullfighting is barbaric and inherently cruel in both design and practice. It can never be justified. We seek a complete end to bullfighting everywhere in the world. http://www.bullfightingfree.org WARNING: This site and its subpages contain very graphic images and text of animal suffering and abuse that may upset sensitive viewers. What is wrong with bullfighting? Bullfighting is based on stressing, exhausting, injuring and/or killing bulls, and each of these 'essential' components required to 'win' the fight against the bull is reason enough to stop it. Bulls are sentient beings, and those who breed them have the duty of caring for them. This duty is totally neglected when breeders force their bulls into the bullring. This is the 'bottom line' ethical reason for ending it. Of course there are plenty of powerful 'specific' reasons to seek abolition. Injury and mutilation Bull with banderillas ?ADDA Bull stabbed by picador ?ADDA Blood on bull's back on the supposedly 'bloodless' Portuguese-style bullfight ?Miguel Noronha. Provided by the League Against Cruel Sports Dying bull about to be mutilated ?ADDA Stabbed bull about to be killed ?ADDA Fallen bull about to be killed ?Initiative Anti-Corrida Child in a 'capea' being trained as bullfighter with very young bulls. ?Federaci?n de Liaisions Anti-Corrida Fallen picador's horse ?ADDA In a typical Spanish-style bullfight, the bull enters the arena and after being provoked into several charges is approached by picadores, men on blindfolded horses who drive lances into its back and neck muscles. This impairs the bull's ability to lift his head through severe loss of blood. Then come the banderilleros on foot, who proceed to stab banderillas- "brightly colored sticks with harpoon points" into its back to increase even further the pain and loss of blood. When the bull has been weakened, these banderilleros run the bull in more circles until it is dizzy and stops chasing. Finally, the matador appears and, after forcing a few charges from the exhausted and confused animal, tries to kill the bull with his sword. If he misses, he stabs the submissive animal on the back of the neck until it is paralysed.. The dagger is supposed to cut the spinal cord, but even this can be blundered, leaving the bull fully conscious when its ears or tail are cut off as trophies. The bull may then be dragged away from the arena whilst it is still alive, and butchered out of sight for its meat to be distributed to the food market. "Bloodless" fights During the Course Camarguese, men run in front of the animal trying to grab the ribbons with a weapon that has a metallic crochet of 16 points. During this show, the animal is struck several times with this instrument, causing wounds in the head or to the eyes.. They need several months to recover after each of these shows, before they are used again. In Course Landaise, each cow is put in a metallic box where men attach a rope to its horns; the other end of the rope is outside the box from which the animal will be expelled brutally. In the ring, two or three men pull the cow by its horns. From behind a wooden barricade, a man pulls the rope causing violent pain to the cow by banging her head against the barricade. They may also use a spear to force the cow to the middle of the ring. In Portuguese bullfighting, the bull faces the rider who will stab it with several banderilhas, which are painful and draw blood. Due to the intense pain, the bull tries without success to chase the rider in order to defend himself, leading to suffering for the horse, even if the horns of the bull are padded. When the bull is exhausted, still with the banderilhas in it, eight men (forcados) enter the bullring where they assault the bull grabbing the head and the tail, eventually immobilising the weakened animal. The bull is then taken to the pen where it will be left for a few days, suffering with his wounds, until being slaughtered. 'Cheats' Bullfighting is obviously not a fair 'fight'. This is not a fight between a bull and a man, but a fight between a bull and several men, horses and weapons. In addition, bulls are often drugged or have their horns altered. One common illegal practice is to 'shave' the bulls' horns by sawing off a few inches. This affects their co-ordination and makes the horns more sensitive to pain. Other victims The bulls are not the only victims in the arena. The horses used in classic Spanish-style are blindfolded so that they don't become frightened of the charging bull. They are often accidentally gored, as are some horses in Portuguese-style bullfights. We should also not forget that, occasionally, people are also killed in bullfights. In 2004, six people died in bullfights. Children From the age of nine, children are taught the 'art' of torturing and putting bulls to death in bullfighting schools. As part of the training, children learn to stab young bulls, which often suffer a great deal in the process due to the inefficiency of the pupils.. These schools are subsidised by the French and Spanish authorities. In Catalonia, children under 14 are banned from attending bullfights, but in the rest of Spain there is no such restriction. Boycott the bloodbath! http://www.bullfightingfree.org/index.html What is Bullfighting? http://www.bullfightingfree.org/whatis.html What is wrong with Bullfighting? (this page) How to abolish Bullfighting http://www.bullfightingfree.org/abolish.html What can you do about Bullfighting? http://www.bullfightingfree.org/whatcanyoudo.html Latest Bullfighting Campaign news http://www.bullfightingfree.org/campaignnews.html
From: rick on 24 Sep 2006 08:53 "pearl" <tea(a)signguestbook.ie> wrote in message news:ef5lpg$drm$1(a)reader01.news.esat.net... > The League Against Cruel Sports has launched a campaign > against bullfighting. After more than 80 years of opposition > to traditional British bloodsports, we believe the time is > right > to address another so-called 'sport' which depends on > money that is generated from British tourists > > The League opposes all forms of bullfighting, including the > misleadingly named 'bloodless bullfighting'. All bullfighting > is barbaric and inherently cruel in both design and practice. > It can never be justified. We seek a complete end to > bullfighting everywhere in the world. ROTFLMAO What a hoot! The typical usenet whacko complaining about probably far less than 100,000 animals being killed around the world by posting your idiocy on usenet. Your hypocrisy has been proven over and over, Lys, I guess you just can't help yourself anymore, can you. Have many more animal deaths are you going to contribute to before you see the bloody trail of footprints you leave? snip typical ignorant spew of the stupid and delusional...
From: John of Aix on 24 Sep 2006 10:10 pearl wrote: > The League Against Cruel Sports has launched a campaign > against bullfighting. After more than 80 years of opposition > to traditional British bloodsports, we believe the time is right > to address another so-called 'sport' which depends on > money that is generated from British tourists > "Bloodless" fights > > During the Course Camarguese, men run in front of the > animal trying to grab the ribbons with a weapon that has a > metallic crochet of 16 points. During this show, the animal > is struck several times with this instrument, causing wounds > in the head or to the eyes.. They need several months to > recover after each of these shows, before they are used again. The implement used, the 'razet, has four 'hooks turned upwards, each with four points on its inside length, the end of the razet, the part that may enter into contact with the animal's head, is rounded so as not to injure it. They are designed to grab the strings (ficelles) and other 'attributs' attached to the animals horns and pull them off rather than cutting them I have never heard of a bull being injured in fact, nor would those who raise them, the Manardiers, allow it to continue if it happened, for these bulls are very valuable animals who perform throughout the season and who are a greater draw that the 'razeteurs' themselves, the human participants. Each has its name on the top of the advertising bill whereas the razeteurs do not always appear on the sheet. There is even a statue to one greatly respected bull in the little Camargue seaside village of Les Saintes Marie de la Mer, famous for its twice yearly gypsy pilgrimage. It is a game where I am sure most bulls have a great deal of fun causing running men to leap over the barriers as their pointed horns approach their butts at twenty miles an hour. If the bull performs well it get's a snatch of 'Carmen' played over the tannoy, and this counts for points in the Bull's scoring league, for they have one with prizes at the end, just like the razeteurs. In fact some bulls so enjoy themselves in the ring that they won't leave at the end of the allotted 15 minutes (signalled by a different snatch of Carmen) so they have to send in an old cow with a bell who knows the ropes and who they all know too and so usually follow out. Before that though, as an old hand in taurine show business, she likes to trot around the complete perimeter of the ring/amphitheatre nodding to her adoring fans. I am not a fan of the corrida, apart from the colour of the thing, and love animals to the point of apologising if I accidentally cut a worm in half in the garden, but believe me, there is nothing cruel about this game. On the contrary IMO, the bulls have a good time. It makes a change from chewing grass in their Camargue fields to which they will return until next week. No doubt plotting new ways to reach the current top razeteur's (Sabri Allouani) butt next time. Aim your arrows where they deserve to be pointed, I do not think that the Course Camarguaise should be oneof them.
From: Ronald 'More-More' Moshki on 25 Sep 2006 12:47
That's our Ricky, defending cowardice and torture. rick wrote: > "pearl" <tea(a)signguestbook.ie> wrote in message > news:ef5lpg$drm$1(a)reader01.news.esat.net... > > The League Against Cruel Sports has launched a campaign > > against bullfighting. After more than 80 years of opposition > > to traditional British bloodsports, we believe the time is > > right > > to address another so-called 'sport' which depends on > > money that is generated from British tourists > > > > The League opposes all forms of bullfighting, including the > > misleadingly named 'bloodless bullfighting'. All bullfighting > > is barbaric and inherently cruel in both design and practice. > > It can never be justified. We seek a complete end to > > bullfighting everywhere in the world. > > ROTFLMAO What a hoot! The typical usenet whacko complaining > about probably far less than 100,000 animals being killed around > the world by posting your idiocy on usenet. > Your hypocrisy has been proven over and over, Lys, I guess you > just can't help yourself anymore, can you. Have many more > animal deaths are you going to contribute to before you see the > bloody trail of footprints you leave? > > > > > > > > > snip typical ignorant spew of the stupid and delusional... |