How can the EU allow Bullfighting to continue?

Question

When will it stop...it makes Spain look Primative and Barbaric

Answer 1

"it makes Spain look Primative and Barbaric"

maybe if they put "suspected terrorists" in the ring instead of bulls Spain would look as civilized as America

Answer 2

I think that its a disgusting sport.  Granted, it might be part of their culture to do these things, but that doesnt make that poor bull hurt any less or die any slower.

Answer 3

Cause fresh tenderized steak is very tasty.  Mix a lil, red wine, Worcestershire sauce, cumin, fresh black pepper, sea salt (to taste), olive oil, garlic, and some onions!  Searing the meat over an open hardwood flame, yummy.  

I don't agree with stopping bullfighting, I think these people have a right to do as they please with the animals which have been entrusted to their care.  I know beef comes from somewhere, at least in this case the bull may just get a chance to stick his horn right up the brown-eye of that brave (discretion is the better part of valor) soul.  An opportunity most bulls never see.

I'd become a vegan, but meat is just so durn tasty.  Maybe if I could stop seeing the animals as food, I could share your point of view.  Stay well...

Answer 4

You don't understand - bullfighting is part of the UN heritage. When Woodrow Wilson founded it in 1915, they had a conference in Spain and did a lot of the negotiations around bullfighting rings. The UN has a vested interest in letting the practice continue, if only to protect its traditions.

Answer 5

If you have ever watched it, it is a horrific sport.  It is one of the most insane things I have ever witnessed.  But, do we not consider it to be part of the tradition of the Spanish people?  When can we culturally say that we are better than others or that their standards are lower than ours because they are simply different.  There are other kinds of sports that have just as much animal cruelty.  I wonder how bad a fish feels everytime that it is caught?  Being dragged around by a sharp hook in its mouth?  Or when you are hunting for a deer and it has been shot but isnt dead and it limps on until it eventually gives up and dies?  I dont see much of a difference there.  If its their culture, let them fight.  We can still complain all we want.

Answer 6

Totally agree, why not just kill the bull to get meat? No,no,no we have to make it suffer so people can actually get some entertainment.

Human beings and other animals for example mammals (such as the bull) have the equal right to live, yes it's true that in nature we have the law of "The stronger one survives, and the weaker one dies", but there's no point on making horrible things that some people actually do (and yet think it's totally OK) with animals just for nothing. On nature lions kills deers for survival, they need to eat. You WON'T EVER see an animal (except by the human being) kill another animal just for "fun/entertainment".

I guess that in the end we're not the "smartest ones" on Earth, once we're completely ignorant concerning this.

Think about it people.

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Answer 7

The UK animal rights people managed to get Fox hunting banned ( though it still goes on)

It's not long before Bullfighting is banned in Spain.. But a lot of Campaigning is needed.

It's certainly one of most Barbaric bloodsports as it  involves much torture of the bull..

And yet the Spanish see these Matadors as Brave and Heroic rather than the Cruel Brainless Imbeciles that they Truly are.

Shame on Spain they show there backwardness..and Barbarity.

How did they get in the EU in the first place.

Answer 8

Bullfighting is a barbaric sports but it is legal in Spain.

Answer 9

There is no allow about it...they have no say in it one way of the other, nor should they.

Bullfighting is an old an time honored tradition in Spain.   It is one of the last remnants of the times when  going out and facing down an un-tamed, dangerous animal was a rite of passage.   It takes great courage to get into an enclosed space, regardless of its size (a bull can move a LOT faster than a man if he's chasing him) with an animal that could seriouly injure or kill you.   I certainly could not do it.

As for it being primative and barbaric, it is no more so than, and in many cases far LESS so, than many other athletic endeavors, like american football, football in the rest of the world, hockey, rugby, boxing, UFC.

If they stop Bullfighting, then what next, the running of the Bulls in Pamploma?   Horse Racing?   Animal performances?