Wednesday, 28 December 2011 10:03

Culture is a set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional traits that characterize a society. It is everything that contributes humans to be more sensitive, more intelligent and more civilized. Culture is NOT VIOLENCE, OR CRUELTY. Bullfighting is seen by few as a beautiful show, an art and a manifestation of ancient culture, but in reality is nothing but an orgy of cruelty, blood, agony and suffering. The bull’s death begins long before the public will start to have fun.

To transport them, bulls are locked in drawers 2 mt. wide where they cannot rotate or move, some cannot even bow their head or look around. Others, because of the long journeys, will die from heat stroke.

In many cases, their staffs are cut, and all wear sticks that identify them with their farmer. The helpless animals are ready to be the protagonist of a bloody spectacle.

The spectacle is divided into three parts called thirds that are marked with a trumpet.

In the first of them the bullfighter fights using a cape.

On the second part, some horse riders come to the ring. They ride on horses that are drugged helpless and often also victims of this barbarity. A lance is thrown to the bull; this is a stick that has round rod ending in a 10 cm metal tip and drills in the bull's back. The 2 or 3 holes each bull receives produces a large blood loss, damage muscles, nerves and soft tissues of animal and obviously weakening.

The trumpet sounds again, and the second third begins. The banderilleros nailed the 6 flags, poles 70 to 80 cm ending in a sharp spear of about 6 cm. that each movement of the bull tears their tissues, and increases the pain and blood loss.

The last trumpet sounds, perhaps not even heard by the dying bull. In the last third of the bullfighter performs the "ultimate fate" in which he fights with his crutch, to the end, take the sword and tries to kill the animal from a direct stab to the heart, burying the blade of 90 cm in rib cage but the matador rarely succeeds (4% of the time) and the bull ends with punctured lungs drowning in his own blood in the midst of impressive mouthfuls of blood through the mouth and nose.

If the agony is prolonged more than expected, the Sticking with pithing will come. The bull’s ears and tail are cut and carried away by a wagon pulled by other livestock to a slaughterhouse, often when still alive. The public lines of ignorance reach total ecstasy, when the arena appears blood-stained.

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