Comments on: Love Spain, Hate Bullfighting – Art with a Heart

By: Michel Michaeljohn

Michel Michaeljohn — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:48:07 +0000

Bullfighting is the most indefensible type of animal abuse. Bullfighting is not a “fight” at all, but a systematic “torture-killing” that pits a gang of armed thugs against a lone, terrified; confused; “fatally” disabled and wounded animal.

It’s a “sickening” economic industry based on HORRIFYING victimization; sadistic abuse; extreme cruelty and “mutilation and torture” of bulls (and horses) during the cruel exhibitions of “bullfights” (which are “blood” fiestas).

Handlers weaken the bull for days before the bullfight. They put laxatives in his food and heavy sandbags on his back. They file his horns down to the tender quick; they blind and drug him; they stuff his ears so that he cannot hear; they stuff his nostrils so that he cannot breath. In the ring, they drive “razor-sharp” lances into his back and neck muscles so he can’t lift his head. By the time the matador appears, the bull is weak from blood loss and dizzy from being chased in circles.

The horses used in bullfights are old and drugged. Wet newspaper is stuffed in their ears and their vocal cords are cut so the audience will not hear their cries. They wear long blankets to hide their entrails, which spill out when they are “gored and disemboweled.”

It’s no fun to see an innocent, crazed animal “tortured” before a screaming crowd of people, who should be hanging their heads in shame. Even if you leave after 15 to 20 minutes, the damage has been done – your money has gone to support this hellish business, which decent people are working to end.

The continuation of bullfighting depends on government subsidies and the “tourist industry.” Don’t be an accomplice to this savagery by supporting it with your dollars.

Please help these suffering animals – STAY AWAY FROM BULLFIGHTS and speak out against them.

Michel Michaeljohn; California; United States.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:09:05 +0000

You ain’t gonna persuade me that bull fighting is humane I’m afraid, but thanks for your comment x

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:10:44 +0000

An amazing display of ignorance goes into the sentence “I was more than happy to sign their petition, agreeing to never visit a bullfight, as was everyone else who came to support the evening.” Somebody who has never experienced the magic of a bullfight and who ignores its realities is unfit to criticize it. They may even prefer the decidedly tacky artwork displayed at this exhibit to the monumental paintings of Picasso, Goya and other great and sensitive artists who loved both Spain and bullfighting.

As for its cruelty, a superficial look into the world of bull rearing will evidently show that no other animal is better treated than the bull for the 5 years before it’s set out to die its heroic death – which lasts for 15 minutes. It roams freely and eats, sleeps and has sex as it pleases, and I bet that the farmed chickens, cows and pigs that we eat would trade anything to live the life of a bull.

As we say in Spain, ignorance is bold.