Sixteen people were injured last week in the Badajoz province of Extremadura, Spain after one of the animals destined for use in a bullfighting festival escaped from its enclosure. Among the injured were four children, ranging in age from only 18 months to six years. Five of the injuries — including those of a four-year-old boy — were serious enough to warrant a trip to the hospital. The fate of the bull involved in the incident is unclear.
This is the latest in a recent string of horrific injuries associated with the “traditional” torture of bulls throughout the country. In July this year, 28 people were injured at the San Fermin running of the bulls festival in Pamplona.
This week, deeply shocking footage was released of a bull dragging itself along the ground after breaking both its back legs during a festival in Spain.
There is very little legislation surrounding this horrific blood sport in the country; many of the nation’s animal welfare laws don’t apply, as the practice is protected by law under the Spanish Constitution as part of “the right to literary, artistic, scientific and technical production and creation.”
Different areas such as Catalan and the Balearic Islands have attempted to introduce legislation banning bullfighting, or add measures to protect the bulls, but these cases are yet to be decided by the courts.
While Spain’s government debate the cultural value of this archaic and torturous sport, bulls and humans alike will continue to be injured and die due to these inhumane interactions.
It’s time to stop talking about it and take action. Join the 15,000 people who have signed our petition calling for a ban on bullfighting today.
https://ladyfreethinker.org/petition-end-barbaric-bull-fighting-spain/
You shouldn’t be doing this in the first place you idiots!!!
Doesn’t this tell them it’s time to stop and treat animals with respect?
Look at the faces of those people watching.! How any decent human being can sit and watch this disgusting torture of a living creature is unbelievable. Hope many more of them get injured and killed and then maybe they will know how it feels.
I have no sympathy for these fucktards!!!
I feel bad for the infant, that shouldn’t of been there and the very young children that the moron parents shouldn’t have taken there! But KARMA ARRIVED, and got those mother fuckers!!!! Served them bastards right! Leave the bulls alone you sick son of a bitches!!!
Too terrible
Awful – Hard to comprehend that people enjoy watching this torture.
Terrible!
Too bad little children have to be exposed and desensitized by this vile, horrific abuse and murder of innocent animals. They will grow up to be just like their idiot parents. I have to admit that I welcome news of bulls having a victory in the ring for a change, after so many are tortured and suffer a lingering, bloody death. It’s only right that KARMA sometimes appears immediately. How else will stupid, cruel humans learn? For most animals on this planet, humans are the devil incarnate.
Sorry, but it’s very hard to have feelings for the people who deliberately torture and kill an animal for religious or entertaining purposes. Why would someone bring a child to an event like this? We should be teaching our children to care for animals, not setting them on fire, sticking them with swords, or dropping them from cages so they break their legs. Humans can be very cruel. It seems as though Spain is very cruel, evil and barbaric!!
Boycott travel to and buying products from all bull-torturing countries. MONEY ALWAYS TALKS.
PLEASE STOP PURE EVIL
I have no sympathy for hurt at the events to watch an animal be tortured. Shame on all of you and if an animal hurts, good for them. This world has only gotten worse. The day will come ALL WILL PAY FOR THEIR SINSI WILL CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR ALL THE ANIMALS ANSD THOSE WHO HELP RESCUE THEM
Schade, dass es nicht mehr waren…..
Alle hätte es treffen müssen…alle hätten verrecken müssen….