Posted on 07/05/2004 7:17:05 PM PDT by missyme
Edited on 07/05/2004 8:43:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
We are not talking about farm animals----I watched my grandmother wring the heads off of chickens (Oh! The horror!)
We are talking about animals raised for sport. The thing is, in bullfighting, the bull has an even chance. He either gores the Matador or he has his throat slit by the Matador. Unless you have watched a bullfight, you can't have any idea.
I went to a Bullfight when I was a Child and thought it was insane...So do you approve of Rooster and Duck Fights?
Don't you have better things to get incensed about...?
I find it a bit hard to believe that the bull would be allowed to live if he killed the matador (or the picador or anyone else). But never having been to a bullfight, I'll take your word for it.
But I can't say I hold with bullfights in general - Mother always told me not to play with my food.
The standing in sunlight pretty much confirms it
PING....cool topless photo!
I can appreciate the value of Animals and what they have to offer and even though I have taken some big hits at times from freepers about my opinion on Animals and what they should and shouldn't be used for, I think it's definetly a topic to become inflamed about..
Well, I'm saving my ire for the guys who cut the heads off other humans. Once they've been taken care of I might be concerned about the fate of bulls in Pamplona....
That's fair...I have seen your name around FR for awile now and I thought maybe you were proably concerned for animals because of your screen name.
Cock fights? No. Mnay of the idiots who fight their cocks arm them with razors.
Duck fights? What are you smoking?
"The standing in sunlight pretty much confirms it"
Lisa: Hey! Hey, hey, stop it! Stop it! Why are you guys jumping
to such ridiculous conclusions? Haven't you ever heard of
Occam's Razor? "The simplest explanation is probably the
correct one."
Bart: [condescending] So what's the simplest explanation?
Lisa: I don't know. Maybe they're all reverse vampires and they
have to get home before dark.
Everyone: Aah! Reverse vampires! Reverse vampires!
[Lisa sighs]
-- The Simpsons, "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
The bull lives to fight another day.
Ducks or Geese they definetly have been used for sport fighting especially in North and South Dakota...
We went to a bull fight in Cancun, there was a badly scarred up broken down horse with a couple of matresses strapped to it, they covered his eyes with a newspaper and tape. A fat boy with a lance rode the horse into the ring, the bull charged, hit the horse hard (Explains the scars) and the fat boy jabbed the bull in his hump, where the neck meets the back. Blood spurts everywhere. Fat boy jabbs el torro a few more times, when the bull is staggerring Juilio el Greasyass, dressed up like a Kansas city funny boy, with a wash rag stuffed down the front of his tights, comes out into the ring.
In the meantime the price of beer has doubled, it is sold by kids walking around with buckets, they pour the cerveza into a foam cup and won't let you keep the bottles, because they know you will throw them.
By the time Juilio enters the ring about 1/2 of the crowd has left. Most of the ladies are crying.
Old Juilio fools around a bit, and tries to poke the bull in el hearto, but el misses. The Bull starts bellering and thrashing about. Most of the rest of the crowd leaves. The price of the Dos X's goes up again. Juilio gets a curved sword and cuts something in the back of the bulls head, and he shuffles his mortal coil. Four cowboys ride in, rope the bull, drag it out of the ring, and the show starts again.
Not my idea of a good time.
Outlaw it? Probably not.
very interesting thread
That is disgusting..
Are those dead Kangaroos? who killed all there babies?
I forgot what the topic was. LOL!
A pity that same chivalry doesn't hold true here in the US.
Example: Fuel-guzzling SUV pulls into national park and family emerges to "rough it in the wilderness" with their TV set, Barcalounger, and battery-operated blender to make margaritas. Obese, Big Mac-stuffed child goes wandering off while parents are crocked on margaritas, encounters a bear, and throws rocks at the bear's cub. Mama bear predictably mauls/eats/scares child. Park ranger hears outraged cries of inattentive stupid parents and/or congressman of inattentive stupid parents and shoots mama bear.
T'ain't fair to the bear.
I have an unwanted image of cockfighting in my head.
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