Mierda! Colombia Overturns Bullfight Ban
The News
Colombia’s constitutional court has ruled that Bogota’s 2012 ban on bullfighting violates people’s “right to artistic expression.” The reversal of the ban is a setback for the local animal rights community and, of course, for the bulls.
In response to the news, Humane Society International said: “Stabbing an animal for entertainment is wrong. Where cruelty starts, culture ends.” In 2013, two participants were killed during bullfights in Northern Colombia.
Your Turn
Colombia judges have ruled that “art” should be protected – even if it constitutes animal torture, apparently. But will they continue defend this bloodsport if more people are killed? To the judges I ask, “How many more people have to die before “right to artistic expression” doesn’t fly?” Bullfighting is among the most barbaric forms of animal torture. Even when the matador is gored and loses the “fight,” the bull is still executed with a sword. Some sport!
Spanish bullfighter in 2010 (photo: Getty)
ABOLISH BULLFIGHTING PERMANENTLY
Unfortunately, boycotting Columbia and it’s products is not enough. Perhaps a major campaign by a large organization would have some good results. That people can be so unfeeling is beyond belief!
This is a diabolical sport that needs banning perminatly. Let them fight each other for fun instead of the bull
This is DISGRACEFUL.
The ‘Latin Shame’ of:
*Bullfighting (‘Roman Catholic’): The sadistic; ritualistic ‘Torture’ of bulls and horses for ‘perverted entertainment.’
– It’s not ART; it’s not CULTURE; it’s not SPORT; it’s ‘TORTURE.’
Bullfights are the most ‘indefensible and abhorrent’ type of animal abuse that IS, and always WILL BE; a ‘Tradition of Cruelty.’
“Bullfighting in 60 Seconds Flat” -video- https://youtu.be/8btD4-N4stM
Bullfighting is not a fight at all, but a systematic torture-killing that pits a gang of armed thugs wielding razor-sharp barbed spikes, spears, swords and daggers (these weapons are designed to inflict intense pain and cause massive blood loss to weaken the animal) against a lone, terrified; confused; fatally disabled; wounded animal.
It’s a sickening economic industry based on HORRIFYING victimization; sadistic abuse; extreme cruelty and mutilation and torture of bulls (and horses) during the cruel exhibitions of bullfights (which are barbaric ‘blood fiestas’) in Spain; Portugal; France; Mexico; Colombia; Ecuador; Guatemala; Peru and Venezuela (in which the ‘Majority’ of the native people are campaigning for Total Bullfight ‘ABOLISHMENT’).
*The Bull:
Handlers weaken and cripple the bull for days before the bullfight:
They starve him; give him laxatives and deny him water, or they put massive doses of sulphates (epsom salts) in his water to induce severe diarrhea, intestinal pain and subsequent lack of coordination in the ring. He is beaten with heavy sandbags on his back; kidneys and testicles. He is wedged into a tiny corral and drugged to make him docile. Up to four inches of horn is painfully hacked off with a saw down to the tender quick (that bleeds) to interfere with his ability to navigate; the mutilated stump rounded off with a rasp and smeared with black grease; his hooves are burned with turpentine so that he cannot lay down; he is locked-up in total darkness for days while being harassed and tormented.
They blind him with vaseline and salt rubbed into his eyes and drug him; they stuff his ears so that he cannot hear; they stuff his nostrils so that he cannot breath. Just before he enters the ring he is harpooned/stabbed in the back with a sharp; steel ‘breeder’s mark.’ In the ring, they drive razor-sharp lances and harpoons into his back and neck muscles so he can’t lift his head. By the time the matador appears, the bull is weak from blood loss and dizzy from being chased in circles.
*The Horses:
The horses used in bullfights as ‘living walls’ are old and drugged. Wet newspaper is stuffed in their ears so that they will not hear the approaching bull and run away; their vocal cords are cut so the audience will not hear their cries. They wear long blankets to hide their entrails, which spill out when they are gored and disemboweled by the tortured; agonizing bull (who has been deceived into thinking that the horse is causing his pain, instead of the ‘wicked human’ riding the horse).
It’s no fun to see an innocent, crazed animal tortured before a screaming crowd of people, who should be hanging their heads in shame. Even if you leave after 15 to 20 minutes, the damage has been done – money has gone to support this hellish, satanic business, which ‘decent people’ (in the bullfight countries and all over the world) are working to ‘end.’
The continuation of bullfighting depends on ‘Corrupt’ Government Subsidies and to an even Greater Extent; the ‘Ignorant Tourist’ who is unknowingly supporting this cruel industry.
Don’t be an ‘accomplice’ to this Vatican Ordered; Jesuit ‘Savagery’ by supporting it with your ‘tourist dollars.’
So-called *’bloodless/cruelty-free’ bullfights (‘corridas incruenta’) are practiced in the United States, where bulls are wedged into a tiny corral and mutilated (up to four inches of horn is hacked off with a saw down to the tender quick (which bleeds) to interfere with his ability to navigate); locked-up in total darkness for days and teased and harassed.
Teased; terrified; confused and tormented, only to be killed once outside the arena in a Mexican bullfight; a slaughterhouse or elsewhere.
In these events bullfighters perform who ‘mutilate; torture and kill’ many bulls during regular ‘bloody’ bullfights.
‘Bloody or bloodless,’ bullfighting is a ‘senseless, degrading’ spectacle that has no place in a ‘civilized’ society.
There is NO such thing as a ‘cruelty-free’ bullfight.
*Bull Runs:
Spanish ‘Bull Runs’ are ‘part’ of the ‘Evil; Sadistic; Cruel; Sleazy’ (and rightfully so; ‘Dying-Out’) bullfighting industry; they are classified as ‘bullfights.’
Bullfighting: It’s not ART; it’s not CULTURE; it’s not SPORT; it’s ‘TORTURE’ (ask the Majority of the people in the bullfighting. predominately “Catholic” countries of Spain; Portugal; France; Mexico; Colombia; Ecuador; Guatemala; Peru and Venezuela who know, and are working on, and passing BANS and ABOLITION of bullfights).
A Tradition of Cruelty
All the bulls that run on the streets of Pamplona during the ‘Running of the Bulls,’ from July 7th to 14th, are killed that same afternoon in a bullfight, in the name of San Fermin and his traditional ‘Fiesta.’ Torturing and killing a defenseless animal should not be celebrated as tradition. People have always tried to use tradition to justify horrible things, such as child labour and slavery. But tradition doesn’t make something right. Bullfighting is a cruel blood sport that should have been relegated to the history books a long time ago. No matter what it’s history, bullfighting consists of the torture, mutilation and slaughter of animals for entertainment.
The ‘Running of the Bulls’
Bulls are bred in fields and are not accustomed to the noise of the crowd or being surrounded by people. They are prodded onto the streets with electric shocks and shouts. They run to the open area and are hit by runners with rolled up newspapers. The corners of the bulls’ route are quite sharp, and the animals often lose their footing and slide into walls, breaking bones and injuring themselves. All the bulls who slip and slide on the streets of Pamplona are running towards a bloody and horrific death in the bullring.
‘Bull Runs’ (Bullfights) are a ‘senseless, degrading’ spectacle that have no place in a ‘civilized’ society.
Help these ‘suffering’ animals – stay away from bullfights ; speak out against them; boycott companies that sponsor them, and demand that they be ‘ABOLISHED.’
This is simply disgusting puts Colombia in a very bad position. I certainly won’t go there or purchase any Colombian products. Yes I do read labels to see where products are made.
It’s Colombia, with two o’s and n u’s.
Bullfighting seems so ancient to me. I can’t believe it can be defended at all by anyone. It is incredibly cruel and to watch something like this is also sick.