Bullfighting is the most indefensible type of animal abuse. It is the activity of brutal and cruel cowards desperately attempting to hide themselves behind a facade of art, bravery and tradition by challenging a hopelessly overwhelmed opponent.
Contrary to the propaganda of bullfighting apologists, bulls are normally quiet and peaceful animals, and only react violently in self-defense, or the defense of their turf. For a number of hours prior to the bullfight, the bull is held in a tiny isolation cell, devoid of food, water, light or the company of his herd. This confuses and panics the bull, and debilitates him physically and mentally. Just before entering the bullring, the bull is harpooned. He begins the fight for his life already wounded and bleeding. Bullfights do not pit one brave man against one ferocious bull.Instead, a gang of thugs mob an animal who is wounded, crippled and debilitated before he ever enters the bullring.
The rider repeatedly slams his spear deep into the bull's back and shoulders, ripping and tearing the muscles and tendons that would allow the bull to defend himself, and causing severe blood loss. The wounds and blood loss from the brutal spearing are incredible, and further destroys any claim that this is a fair fight. Often, the bulls are so thoroughly disabled by their torture they literally crawl or collapse completely in an attempt to escape their persecutors.
It is only after the exhausted, confused and terrified bull has endured hours of abuse, crippling wounds and incredible blood loss at the hands of bullfighters, that the brave matador displays his "courage." The bullfighter performs tricks and humiliates the exhausted and dying bull who can barely stand and defecates and urinates uncontrollably.
Bullfighting propaganda claims that the sword should hit the heart and instantly kill the bull. This almost never happens. The best chance the bull has of a relatively quick death is when he is stabbed in the lungs, in which case he vomits blood out of his nose and mouth, and drowns in his own blood. Often the bull is stabbed over and over.
Once stabbed by the long sword, the bullfighters try to force as much movement as possible from the bull, so the sword will hack his insides to pieces and force him to go down, where he will endure more torture.
Finally the bull can no longer stand, and he goes down in complete submission. Then brave bullfighter, knife in hand, walks up to the exhausted, dying bull to cause more torment. The thug stabs the bull in the back of the neck, and then savagely rips the knife back and forth to destroy the bull's spinal cord. The devastation of the knife renders the bull paralyzed, but still alive and alert. The paralyzed by still conscious bull is dragged around the bullring for the final pleasure of the bloodthirsty mob.
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