[Kerry]

Do the riders deserve everything they get?


I just can't bring myself to feel sorry for riders that are mauled by these animals. I hate it with a passion that they torment and ultimately kill the bull (in most cases)

I'm no animal activist or whatever you want to call it but bullfighting - I just can't find any sympathy at all for anyone injured

[Smithy]

If your stupid enough to get into a ring with a bull you deserve everything thats coming to you imo.

[Vicky.]

The riders, and people who go to watch it, deserve for the bull to totally flip out and kill them all.

[Novo]

They are just doing their Job at the end of the day.. no one deserves to die trying to make a living for themselves

[Kerry]

Originally Posted by Novo

They are just doing their Job at the end of the day.. no one deserves to die trying to make a living for themselves

No need to die. The bull ripping their bollocks off will do

[MTVN]

That's a bit harsh to wish death or injury on them, surely the people who go and watch it are worse, the matadors themselves are just providing a service and satisfying the demand for bullfighting, it's a very skillful profession really

[Kerry]

Originally Posted by MTVN

That's a bit harsh to wish death or injury on them, surely the people who go and watch it are worse, the matadors themselves are just providing a service and satisfying the demand for bullfighting, it's a very skillful profession really

Yep, torment, torture and slaughter. Wonderful skill

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

Yep, torment, torture and slaughter. Wonderful skill

Yes it's very skillful, Ernest Hemingway wrote a lot on the subject, he was fascinated by it

[InOne]

It just looks funny when they flipped about and that. Never give a second though about the sport or anything

[Lee.]

The whole thing is just revolting! I don't know why it's still allowed to be honest!

[arista]

Originally Posted by happyland

The whole thing is just revolting! I don't know why it's still allowed to be honest!

Its Tradition
like Boxing.


Feel The Force.

[Pyramid*]

Cruelty to any animal, and such hellish cruelty designed to inflict pain and suffering - in the name of entertainment? Don't care if it's a tradition. Foxhunting can be viewed as a tradition - and it's equally as horrific and disgusting and those involved are heartless b's.

[Vicky.]

Kill probably is a bit harsh.

But I have no sympathy at ALL for anyone who has anything to do with bullfighting.

[Zippy]

Theres a pic somewhere of one getting a horn right through his nads...ouch!

of course they deserve it, theyre practically taunting the bull and begging it to attack them. I don't like seeing big mighty animals belittled like that. Its extremely disrespectful to them and very cowardly as we all know who'd win in a fair fight.

But then again, millions of cows and sheep get slaughtered every week for food so.....perspective. I guess its a relative few.

But I would never go watch a show and nobody else should if they disagree with it. But its engrained in Spanish culture.

[Kerry]

Animals for food are slaughtered humanely though. These bulls are literally tormented to death

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

Animals for food are slaughtered humanely though. These bulls are literally tormented to death

How about hens who live in horrible conditions in cages barely bigger than their own bodies? That's hardly humane

[Zippy]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

Animals for food are slaughtered humanely though.

LOL somebody hasn't seen secret video footage from animal rights activists

[Kerry]

I'm not totally naive. I do know about caged hens and have seen more Hugh Fernly Whittingthingy videos than I wish to recall. I KNOW not all animals are treat the same and I know many many conditions are appalling.

THIS thread however is about bullfighting - cheers

[Lee.]

People don't pay to go and cheer for battery hens or abbatoirs though do they?

Bullfighting is classed as a spectator sport and I just think in this day and age it's wrong!

[Zippy]

Originally Posted by happyland

People don't pay to go and cheer for battery hens or abbatoirs though do they?

Bullfighting is classed as a spectator sport and I just think in this day and age it's wrong!

no but I was making the point that animals are generally treated appallingly by humans on a major scale and this is just a very small part of that. It's high profile but really it's a drop in the ocean.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

jeez man

[Kerry]

All the spears in that bull. Serves him effing right

[Kerry]

Kick a dog, it may bite you (rightly so)

Stab a bull, lose your bollocks

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Zippy

no but I was making the point that animals are generally treated appallingly by humans on a major scale and this is just a very small part of that. It's high profile but really it's a drop in the ocean.

I agree, and I would say that bullfighting, as a skilfull art of cultural significance, is more easily justified than battery farming is, the only reason for that is to try and save a few pennies on your chicken..

[Kerry]

Animals are indeed treat appallingly but I'm addressing bullfighting. Bulls with daggers in their neck and spears in their hide. Let me guess, they won't feel it? Of course not. Thats why they try to maul their attackers. For nothing.

I'm just as against battery hens. I'm just as against disgusting conditions on such farms. Cock fighting, dog fighting and all the rest. But, rightly so, such fighting is illegal here. Why it's right to literally torture these bulls to death, to pay to watch or to be paid to actually ride - well if you lose your nuts or rupture your liver - FECKING TOUGH!