Bullfighting...Bullshit Maybe I'm not very

Bullfighting...Bullshit

Maybe I'm not very smart. Maybe I haven't read enough Hemingway but I thought that bullfighting was some silly dude dressed all queer, waving a red cape around a big bull and that's it.
I was talking to a friend tonight and he tells me about how they stab the bull with these arrow or dart-type things, then after messing with him for a while, they plunge a sword into the bull and kill him.

THEY KILL THE BULL.

I didn't know this!
It's so barbaric to me. They raise these bulls to fight, then the matadors goad these pissed off animals into charging them and they get pierced in their neck several times until they are stabbed by the matador. I don't know if bulls ever win because I read that if a matador is injured and has to be removed for medical attention, the rest of the matadors must kill the bull. If the crowd likes what they see, the ears and tail are cut off and given to the winning matador as a gift. Disgusting!
So, for pleasure, thousands of people watch as bulls are tortured and killed.
I did find out that the bull is taken to local butchers to be sold for food so I'm not sure if this is any different from slaughtering pigs and cows for our pork chops and hamburgers but at least we don't sell tickets to the slaughter and slowly torture our hamburgers.

I don't think I could ever watch a bullfight. Just like I couldn't watch any animal be murdered.

Here are a few links on bullfighting:

Information About Bullfighting in Spain and Andalucia
Corrida de Toros

PS: PETA is always up in everyone else's shit (like KFC) so why aren't they bitching at the bullfighters?

Update: Oh, I found it. PETA is all up in their shit!

Posted by De at July 28, 2003 01:01 AM