British man killed by Bull

[Uncle Spielberg]

60000 Bulls are killed each year in the Bullring in Spain. Alas only 52 Matadors have died since 1700.

 

[Easy 10]

I don't see the comparison myself.

We eat beef raised wandering free, and killed in fractions of seconds (well I try to make sure they have been as much as possible). We don't bleed them to death whilst they are taunted around a ring.

Sadly the majority of livestock produced for consumption don't have a lifetime of wandering around free. They are raised as cheaply as possible, fattened up as quickly as possible so they can arrive on our plates with as much profit margin as possible for the farmers/producers. And I'm as guilty as most for putting that to the back of my mind when I buy and consume meat.

At least the bull will live for twice as long and be bred with a view to it being healthy virile and muscular for the bullring so it can put up a fight. Given the choice of the life of either animal (if I HAD to choose), I'd opt for the latter.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I agree with a lot you say on subjects but I am not on the same page as you on this. Using this warped scewed thinking means this sort of atrocity will carry on. In Portugal the Bullfight is just as revered but it is illegal to kill the animal infact if the Matador does he gets a huge fine and faces a murder charge.

 

[Easy 10]

You are defending it though. To compare the Bullfight where it is terrified , panic sticken, taunted infront of 10000 people, stabbed with long knives weakening it, knives placed strategically to limit its movements to make it easier and less dangerous for the Matador, then to run out of energy with blood pouring from open wounds before the Matador makes the final kill and then has the ears cut off for a momento of the kill is not the same as an animal killed instantaneously with a gun to the head imo.

Yes, its a gruesome end. But what about the quality and length of life leading up to that death for those two respective animals ?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

This is going nowhere.

 

[Easy 10]

Yup. Think this subject has run its course.

Food for thought though.

 

[tedebear]

Sadly the majority of livestock produced for consumption don't have a lifetime of wandering around free.

Not mine - certainly don't buy anything that isn't free range anymore. Obviously can't ask the question when I'm at a restaurant or someone elses place for dinner, but certainly don't buy anything that hasn't been raised without an iota of respect anymore.

But the way it lived is irrelevant when the death is so painfully unjustified. I'm suprised you don't see it that way I suppose.

 

[tedebear]

Sorry hadn't refreshed and seen you'd accepted defeat Easy

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Yup. Think this subject has run its course.

Food for thought though.

Here's some food for thought for you.

The Truth Behind Bullfighting

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

http://www.notmytribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bullfighting-inhumane.jpg

 

[Danny-Boy]

It IS a recipe for disaster. Personally, I quite fancy La Tomatina in Bunyol. A large tomato fight with all night parties. Prague is tempting, but wanted to do something a bit different than just boozing.

Why not enter the Tour De France as a team then? No alcohol but all the body-building drugs you can manage...

 

[Questions]

60000 Bulls are killed each year in the Bullring in Spain. Alas only 52 Matadors have died since 1700.

Thats a lot of bull.

 

[brulee]

go to pamplona on ur stag night. your have a brilliant time. non stop party.as for cruelty, it would be nice if people thought as much about humans as they did animals