Spanish Region to Ban Bullfighting?
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There is no sport involved here, its like shooting ducks in a pond. If you condone this, you are a sad individual...
So, if an animal is raised "free range" on a farm........and someone comes and shoots it with a rifle.....explain to me why that is ethically wrong, considering that on a factory farm the animal would have lived its entire life in a stall, and been slaughtered by a method no more humane than the rifle...
Your principles don't seem to be very well thought out....do you eat meat at all? Wear leather? If you are a vegan, I at least could conclude you are a little consistent.
BTW, ever try "shooting ducks in a pond"? Not as easy as you might think......
Being shot or hammered or electric-pointed on an abattoir's killing floor is as fast and humane as it can be. Being repeatedly wounded by those "sportsmen" who require a closed range just to have a chance at smelling blood, bleeding out - or worse, escaping the compound to die hours, days or even a week later of infection, starvation or predator attack - isn't even in the same book. I lived near one of those bang-bangers' delights and saw wounded deer stumble out onto the highway on several occasions. All we could do is call MNR because deer wasn't in season.
The bull dies soon thereafter
The bull dies soon thereafter
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Like I said earlier, bullfighting is a leftover from another time. It has been going on in some form not the same as, but similar to what we have today for over a thousand years. The best matadors are held in high esteem by the Spanish people. I don't particularly like bullfighting but I do understand it better having seen it. In Pamplona the running of the bulls often kills or injures someone.
The push to ban bullfighting has to come from the Spanish people themselves, outsiders cannot do it. It may have been a leftover from another time, but in old days, people used to have plenty of barbaric, inhumane practices, nobody thought anything of it.
But as we progress, it is time to shed some of the more atrocious, primitive practices. Britain banned fox hunting. That was a big step indeed for Britain, Britain banning fox hunting was similar to Canada banning hockey, it was very popular among some factions in Britain.
However, Britain rightly recognized it as a barbaric practice and got rid of it. Hopefully Spain will follow suit, region by region.
But as we progress, it is time to shed some of the more atrocious, primitive practices. Britain banned fox hunting. That was a big step indeed for Britain, Britain banning fox hunting was similar to Canada banning hockey, it was very popular among some factions in Britain.
However, Britain rightly recognized it as a barbaric practice and got rid of it. Hopefully Spain will follow suit, region by region.
