Each year, thousands of bulls are tortured and killed in bullrings throughout Spain. Prior to the fight, bulls are intentionally debilitated in various ways: They're often deprived of food and a few inches of their horns are sometimes sawed off to expose the nerve and impair their coordination in an illegal practice called "shaving." And a study at Spain's Salamanca University revealed that 20 percent of the bulls used for fighting are drugged before they enter the ring.During the fight, the bulls are stabbed and gouged repeatedly with lances and banderillas—brightly colored sticks with harpoon points—by a series of picadors and banderillos (men on horseback and on foot). They chase the bull around, making him dizzy and causing a significant amount of blood loss with each stab before the matador (Spanish for "killer") even enters the ring.
The matador then attempts to kill the bull with a sword. If the matador is unsuccessful, an executioner is called in to stab the animal to death.
Worldwide opposition to bullfighting is growing, and in 2006, a Gallup poll found that 72 percent of Spaniards had "no interest" in bullfighting. The following year, the state-run Spanish Television Corporation stopped broadcasting live bullfights. It's time to ban this cruel, primitive blood sport. Please follow this link to see the video.
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2287The real men are not the matadors that kill these bulls, but the ones that refuse to do it. We all know cowards are the people willing to bully an animal in an unfair fight to feel good about oneself.
We the undersigned,
We have all signed this petition to help support you in your work to end bullfighting, and we wish it to stop. Lets all work together to bring this disgusting blood sport to an end so no more bulls can suffer. The sport is unfair, and proves no point on the matadors' side, and it is needless. It is time for this 'tradition' to come to an end. Part of a culture or not, animals are dieing for nothing, and it is wrong.