Bulls are the shows in which bulls are dealt with closed squares following rules and points to finally kill the animal. In its modern form, the bullfight was born in Spain in the 18th century, however, the origins of bullfighting can go back to the Greco -Roman cultural roots, during the Minoan civilization.
If we take into account the torture process, the damage that is inflicted during the run and the final death of the bull, many already seems sufficient reason for these to be forbidden. However, it is a controversial issue with some very staunch defenders and beyond what we may seem logical, it is always necessary to have arguments to maintain a discussion. That is why in the following article of Ecologiaverde we want to talk about Arguments against bullfightsexplaining the reasons why they should be prohibited.
Arguments against the bullfight
They are a tradition
No one doubts that bullfights are a tradition with many years of history, but that is not enough argument to continue doing it. The ablation of clitoris, the beares by adultery or the struggles of gladiators They are also or have been at some point tradition In some areas of the world, but that is why we stop denouncing how cruel these practices have.
Traditions serve to connect with our past, a way of projecting our culture towards the future and reaffirming ourselves. But evolution serves something and, among other things, serves to be able to look criticallymaintain what is valid and eliminate aspects such as animal abuse.
Bulls are an art
Art is creation, construction, something that elevates the spirit and gives life, never removes it. There are many and recognized authors and artists who have been fascinated by bullfighting, but that Nor is it enough reason to consider art. Some of those who defend it say that bullfighting falls in love because it changes the animality of the bull, talks about the transcendent of death and projects in the struggle for the life of the bull the struggle of man to escape his animality and to survive, with a beauty that makes him transcend. Others talk about the struggle for life between a bull and a man, either, no matter how A tortured and killed animal. Would we accept torture and death in any other area of culture?
The bull does not die dignity
Dignity, as well as courage, bravery or honor are moral and behavioral categories created by the human being and that they can only make sense in him. Categorizing a bull or any other animal with these adjectives is absurd, since he does not act with dignity or stop doing so, he simply defends himself. In addition, death is still death, no matter how much dignity he wants to give, when he is bullfighting he is not doing any favor to the bull.
There is even more, no matter how much we accept that the bull dies in a dignified way, despite having done so before the cheers of thousands of people, it will end up in an exploded room where it will be destined for human consumption, something that goes quite a lot to what we commonly understand by a dignified death.
Bulls are not culture
It is not much necessary to be able to refute this argument, simply listen and read what UNESCO says, the United Nations Organization for Science, Education and Culture. Well, almost 40 years ago, in 1980, this organization spoke about bullfights saying that Bullfighting is the banal art of torturing and killing animals in front of the public. Something that traumatizes children and adults, which worsens the state of the neuropaths who see the show and denatures our relationship with the animal.
But Unesco says it says; Cruelty, abuse and pain cannot be considered culture. Culture is the customs and ways of life that contribute to the development in some way or another, and animal abuse does not meet any of the points that culture should meet.
They are religion since some runs are made in honor of Santos
The Catholic Church has repeatedly condemned the celebration of festivities in which there is torture and death of animals. Already in the year 1567 a papal bull was promulgated by Pío V in which these types of shows were considered as bloody and clumsy, threatening with excommunication to those clergy, kings or emperors who will foster them. In 1920 the Vatican again condemned them, referring to the words of Pius V of almost 400 years before. I also talk about John Paul II who remembers that in the Bible there is no distinction between men and animals. Thus, anyone who uses religious arguments to defend bulls should know that even from religion these acts are condemned.
The end of the runs would mean their disappearance
The bull is a herbivorous animal whose days pass peacefully while looking for food in pastures. In a natural state, the bull does not demonstrate any “bravery” Except when there is any territorial struggle, if seen in danger or if there is a fight in relation to reproduction. The variety of brave bulls is made based on human elections of the most aggressive individuals, as well as in other cattle have been chosen to give more milk or more meat.
The point is that If the runs disappear, the bulls will not disappearBravura will simply disappear in this variety, a characteristic that has no utility in your life. It is considered that a species has become extinct when there is not an individual alive worldwide and, today, there are about 2 and a half million brave bulls throughout the planet. All this without taking into account that brave bulls cannot be extinguished, since only the species can be extinguished and not the varieties.
The bull does suffer
The bulls are cephable mammals with a central nervous system and a complex nervous and neuronal network, with pain receptors, so obviously They feel pain in the same way in which humans feel. In fact, just having observed them a few minutes to realize that a minimum that a fly poses on its back moves the tail to scare away it. If they are able to perceive the fly, what will they feel when the flags, the puyas and finally the sword? But, in addition, in the bullfights the bulls are not the only ones that suffer pain and can die. The horses that ride the picadoreseven if they carry protections, they suffer trauma and pain during the run.
The bull is not born for this
That the bulls of Lidia have been raised to die in the square does not mean that they were born for that. That is as much as saying that dogs have been born to participate in fights because some breeders allocate them to those activities. That man has created that subspecies from the choice of the most brave individuals for generations They do not give us the right to torture them or kill them At our whim, it is not the only fate that can expect that animal. The genetic condition of the bull is no inevitable seal in its destination.
We have already pointed it throughout the article, but if we consider it, any of these arguments can contract with something very simple: they are somewhat cruel. In bulls Torture and kill an animaland for that simple fact they should be prohibited. In fact, it is both the absurdity that if it was practiced on a farm or in a slaughterhouse the same thing that is done in a latch square those responsible would be criminally judged and convicted.
Reasons to prohibit bulls
Here are a series of reasons why bulls should be prohibitedhowever, you can surely find many more:
- Because they are a cruel form of animal abuse.
- Because anywhere else other than the square would be considered a crime without any doubt.
- Because it is totally cruel to raise animals with the sole purpose of torturing them and killing them.
- Because it is a form of animal exploitation.
- Because the pastures end with biodiversity and desert the forests.
- Because they do not live as well as they want to believe, in fact, they kill them when they have barely fulfilled a room of their life.
- Because before leaving the square, the bulls are drugged, frightened and tortured.
- Because bulls are highly sensitive, sociable and intelligent.
- Because it is not a fight of equal to the same as they want to see, the end of the run in the vast majority of cases is the death of the bull.
- Because 80% of pardoned bulls die after a few days due to the wounds of the run.
- Because not only the bull is tortured, but also to the horses of the picadores. Sometimes, they even cut the vocal strings so that they do not whiten.
- Because it is a practice more typical of other centuries than of the XXI.
- Because it is forbidden to drive without seat belt or enter a work without a protective helmet, how can someone be allowed in front of a bull?
- Because it is only legal in 8 countries of the world.
- Because in the current situation, it is completely unworthy that public money is destined for this type of shows.
Antitaurine phrases
- “The art of bullfighting consists of turning a beautiful animal into a beautiful albondiga in a beautiful albonda before a rowing audience” Manuel Vicent
- “The runs are the most disgusting, topical and expires of our customs.” JESUS TORBADO
- “The public goes to the square only to contemplate the meticulous death of an animal.” Manuel Vicent
- “Toreo is the last stumbling block of a humanity without civilizing.” Isidro Gomá and Tomás
- “What will these people find in that face (that of a bull) that far from moving their vision grows more in barbarism?” Eugenio Noel
- “Hopefully one day we can shout: the bullfighter has died: Live the bulls!” Eduardo del Río
- “Bulls are a vice of our poisoned blood since ancient times.” Jacinto Benavente
- “Among the cruelties, the most repulsive is that which has fun.” Dolores Marsans Comas
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