Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Bullfights

Are bullfights humane. Well this blog post will describe what happens in a bullfights and what are the dangers. Bullfights originated from the 700s when there was a celebration for the crowning of the new king of Spain. Ever since then it has become one of the most celebrated sports of the modern day Spain. Before a bullfight, the bull is starved for several days. This makes it extremely touchy and irritated. The bull is then released into the ring facing the bullfighter. Then the bullfighter does a faena around the bull dodging and then missing the bull while waving a red cape in front of it. However in bullfights things rarely go smoothly. There have been many cases of bullfighters dying or losing a limb because of an accident. Sometimes even the crowd is in danger as an angry bull can charge at them and attack them. However if you think that is bad, look at it from the bull's point of view. After the faena the bullfighter takes out a sword and kills the bull mercilessly. The crowd would then applause the matador for how fast he killed the bull. The faster the better. So now that I have given you my view on bullfighting it is up to you to decide whether bullfighting is a humane sport or not.

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