before the "fight" the bulls have heavy weights tied to their necks for weeks to weaken them. The workers rub petroleum into their eyes to obscure their vision and beat the bull's kidneys repeatedly. They give them trandquilizers, laxatives, and drugs taht induce paralysis or a hypnotized state. They feed them a large amount of salt so they will drink a lot and become bloated and slow. Many have their horns cut down. For hours the bull is held in a tiny cage with no food or water and before the "fight" he is harpooned to cause bleeding and released into the arena. Act1- the fighters stab the bull's neck muscles with a spiked lance and impale their spears into their shoulders. Act 2- They strike the bull with barbed harpoons. Act 3-The fighter attemps to stab the bull in the heart but often misses, usually stabbing them in the lungs which sometimes the bull vomits blood out of his nose and mouth. After stabbing the bull a number of times, they try to slice up the orans so that the bull with collapse. They will cut the spinal cord then the ears and tail. Then they will drag the bull around as the audience cheers. The horses also suffer as their vocal cords are cut out so they cant scream and approximately 200are killed each year. Baby bullfights are real too as they are stabbed to death and the ears and tail are cut off as well. (all in front of a audience)
before the "fight" the bulls have heavy weights tied to their necks for weeks to weaken them. The workers rub petroleum into their eyes to obscure their vision and beat the bull's kidneys repeatedly. They give them trandquilizers, laxatives, and drugs taht induce paralysis or a hypnotized state. They feed them a large amount of salt so they will drink a lot and become bloated and slow. Many have their horns cut down. For hours the bull is held in a tiny cage with no food or water and before the "fight" he is harpooned to cause bleeding and released into the arena. Act1- the fighters stab the bull's neck muscles with a spiked lance and impale their spears into their shoulders. Act 2- They strike the bull with barbed harpoons. Act 3-The fighter attemps to stab the bull in the heart but often misses, usually stabbing them in the lungs which sometimes the bull vomits blood out of his nose and mouth. After stabbing the bull a number of times, they try to slice up the orans so that the bull with collapse. They will cut the spinal cord then the ears and tail. Then they will drag the bull around as the audience cheers. The horses also suffer as their vocal cords are cut out so they cant scream and approximately 200are killed each year. Baby bullfights are real too as they are stabbed to death and the ears and tail are cut off as well. (all in front of a audience)
We the undersigned, request that you stop the bull fighting in your countries due to the fact that the bulls and horses are suffering and thats not fair to them. We ask that you ban all bull fighting, and baby bullfights in your countries for they contain animal abuse and major cruelty. Please stop this now.
11:06 am PST, Dec 30,Lyle Qualls, Colorado
MEANINGLESS CREULTY
# 1,004:
5:56 pm PST, Dec 29,Sirkka Levaniemi, Finland
# 1,003:
3:58 pm PST, Dec 28,Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 1,002:
12:48 pm PST, Dec 24,Bonnie Furnish, Michigan
# 1,001:
1:25 am PST, Dec 24,Name not displayed, Denmark
# 1,000:
7:09 pm PST, Dec 22,Kavita Chandra, California
Please stop animal cruelty.
# 999:
9:03 am PST, Dec 22,D Hawksworth, United Kingdom
# 998:
5:03 am PST, Dec 22,Nathalie Bergeron, Canada
# 997:
8:34 am PST, Dec 15,Bernardo Gortaire, Ecuador
This should go also to Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela and any other country that supports or allows bullfighting.
There are some misinformation about the treatment the bulls receive before the fight. It is a lie that their eyes are rubbed with petroleum, it is a lie that they put cotton balls inside their throats, it is not true that the vocal cords of the horses are cut. Those exaggerations are not needed, anyway. The facts speak for themselves: the bull suffers terrible pain and torture before and during the fight, in front of an audience in the name of so-called art and tradition.
# 996:
5:15 pm PST, Dec 9,Lacy Adney, New Mexico
This is torture. Please stop. If you must express your Bullfighting sport, do so without the senseless torment and killing of what make it an awesome sport. I understand you as people are not barbarians, but this is truly a barbaric affair.
# 995:
1:48 pm PST, Dec 7,Christine Kamradt, Illinois
# 994:
2:24 pm PST, Dec 3,John Kamradt, Illinois
# 993:
1:16 pm PST, Dec 3,Pamylle Greinke, New York
# 992:
8:56 am PST, Dec 2,Sandy Rusch, Illinois
# 990:
11:05 pm PST, Nov 30,C. Chandra, Indonesia
# 989:
3:54 pm PST, Nov 29,ANGELA BOND, United Kingdom
# 988:
10:17 pm PST, Nov 27,Matsi Yasei, Texas
# 987:
9:50 pm PST, Nov 27,Name not displayed, Texas
Please stop this now. Cruelty to animals is not entertainment.
# 986:
5:42 pm PST, Nov 27,Name not displayed, Argentina
Stop this cruelty right now.
I will encourage as many people as I can to sabotage these events around the world.
For each bull you kill, we should kill one of yours.
# 985:
2:00 pm PST, Nov 27,Christel Meisters, Netherlands
# 984:
7:24 am PST, Nov 26,Elena Susanna Gori, Italy
# 983:
9:46 am PST, Nov 24,Janet Reed, North Carolina
Why does bullfighting have to involve cruelty to the animal? We as people wouldn't like being tortured (which is what beating them and drugging them really is) and then stabbed to death for sport, so why would we do it to animals? There is NOTHING that justifies killing as a sport.
# 982:
7:48 am PST, Nov 23,Leendert Van der Leur, Belgium
# 981:
11:30 am PST, Nov 19,Sonja Nielsen, Denmark
Animals have the right to be treated with respect and love. Animals should be able to live their lives without human use and abuse. Animals are not toys for humans to play with or to burst their pathetic egos. Bullfighting is simply inhumane and should not be alowed
# 980:
11:05 pm PST, Nov 17,Jasmin Rosales, Australia
# 979:
7:25 pm PST, Nov 17,Erick Pezo, Peru
# 978:
7:20 pm PST, Nov 17,Marisol Avalos, Peru
Esa tradición de porquería debería desaparecer ya! Evolucionen!!!
# 977:
7:52 pm PST, Nov 16,Name not displayed, California
# 976:
1:49 pm PST, Nov 13,Emma Knaggs, United Kingdom
Don't be so cruel!! Do you even think about what you have done you sadists. How can you be so mindless to do such a thing. And you for some reason think your a brave hero because you can kill a mighty magnificient bull, when really your all cowards to have to starve and ill treat them to make them weak so you can finish them off at there lowest point, why dont you at least give them a fighting chance?? But what do you care as long as you get your money i suppose you dont care who has to suffer in the process. But i believe in karma and you wont get away with the terrible things you have done.
# 975:
1:21 pm PST, Nov 13,Paula Roberts, United Kingdom
i don't understand how torturing an animal for hours on end can be classed as a sport, i think weak, pathetic little people with no future to look forward to feel the need to be known, so go ahead n murder these poor animals, they weaken these animals by stabbing them and starving them before the so called fight even starts just to ensure that they win and get to feel like a champion for once in their meaningless little lives!!!
who gives these idiots the right to take an animal, lock it up, starve it of food and water, torture it then slice it open like its nothing, so many people go to watch these shows i don't know if it's because they are so evil minded themselves or that they just forget that it's an animal with feeling's just like us humans and deserves to be treated with respect and kindness.
just take a minute and imagine you are the bull and how it would feel everytime they stabbed you again, and again knowing that your not getting out of there alive, your could beat this guy but then tomorrow you will be back out fighting for your life all over again, and as you look around at the cheers you realise they are all wanting one thing to see u ripped apart.....
now how can you watch a show like that???
# 974:
8:10 pm PST, Nov 11,Lisa Lowder, Arizona
I am horrified and shocked that this unnecessary practice continues. Please stop the torutre and cruel murder of these amazing animals. I strongly oppose the cruelty that is being unnecessarily inflicted upon these animals. Please respect the bulls.
Lisa Ann Lowder
# 973:
10:29 am PST, Nov 10,Kathleen Lowder, California
Please stop this!
# 972:
2:31 am PST, Nov 9,Loren Rowney, Australia
prime example of mans ego, fighting an already weakened animal, labeling it as brave, glorifying these cowardly men. Be ashamed knowing you are weak and insignificant. Let me place you in a ring weakened and bleeding out and we will see how you fair. These matadors, their fans, the Spanish king, you all deserve the fate of these bulls.
# 971:
2:19 am PST, Nov 8,Boey Inge, Belgium
Cruel, barbaric and sadistic. Where is the respect of all life.........
# 970:
4:49 pm PST, Nov 5,Mayte Fernandez, Spain
# 969:
12:53 pm PDT, Oct 30,Holly Capasso-Harris, New Jersey
I will not visit your country until this disgusting sport is outlawed.
# 968:
11:39 am PDT, Oct 30,Linda Sorter, California
Tell spain and mexico what you think about the meaningless cruetly to these poor poor bulls and horses. Change this with your comments and save the li
# 967:
8:29 pm PDT, Oct 29,Justin Huutchins, Arizona
# 966:
6:43 am PDT, Oct 29,Mark Quinn, Canada
If the bull fight must occur. Do not impede it's ability to fight.
# 965:
7:42 pm PDT, Oct 26,Marilyn Mills, New Zealand
This is not right...please stop this terrible so called sport
# 964:
1:17 pm PDT, Oct 24,Stefania Proietti pannunzi, Italy
# 963:
7:03 pm PDT, Oct 23,Name not displayed, Virginia
this is an overly retarded so called "sport" and anyone supporting it should be turned into the innocent bull in the arena and suffer their well deserved fate. These animals do not deserve to die, both the bulls and the horses. Slaughter is more humane then this, which is a lot to say...er, type. Either way, bulls should to stabbing the humans in this event, not the other way around.
# 962:
3:24 pm PDT, Oct 22,Milca Van Den Steene, France
STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY! THIS ACTIVITY BELONGS TO THE MIDDLE AGE !!!
# 961:
7:28 pm PDT, Oct 18,Lee Baron, New Jersey
# 960:
5:17 pm PDT, Oct 16,Gabriela Guadalajara, New York
# 959:
12:39 pm PDT, Oct 16,Alice Olivo, Italy
# 958:
12:16 pm PDT, Oct 16,Eureka Morrison, South Africa
Jesus wept!
# 957:
12:22 am PDT, Oct 16,Kristen Taylor, Georgia
I realize that this "sport" has a rich tradition and history in your country. But it is a truly barbaric custom and should be left in the past. Evolve, move into the future, and end this cruel torture once and for all.
# 956:
2:27 pm PDT, Oct 15,Maria Daines, United Kingdom
In the UK we inadvertently support this spectacle of pain via EU subsidies handed out to Spanish farmers so they can raise bulls for the ring. Do you want your hard earned taxes to pay for this?
Bullfighting is not the 'sport' that the public is lead to believe it is, it is a brutal attack on a defenceless animal. As the petition states, bulls are already disabled before the torture begins and they are merely 'finished off' in the ring. It's like something out of the dark ages, a public stabbing in the name of entertainment, tradition, culture. The real name for this horror is murder, so it would seem people like to pay to watch the murder of innocent souls.
# 955:
8:06 pm PDT, Oct 14,Geoff Ash, United Kingdom
Please watch this video
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OzB_FS2Xn3k
# 954:
6:43 pm PDT, Oct 14,XAVIA Saxon, Virginia
# 953:
7:29 pm PDT, Oct 12,Melorie Pearce, Canada
This is disgusting, the people who do this should be tortured and killed. Those poor bulls :'(
# 952:
5:58 am PDT, Oct 9,Petrina Keane, United Kingdom
We think it's time for you to evolve and stop acting like a backward, barbaric nation
# 951:
9:22 pm PDT, Oct 8,Aaron LaBow, New York
such barbaric cruelty is a sign of weak minds stuck in cerimonial barbarism , this practise is of barbaric cruelty is for those of weak minds, and those of sadism! wake up stop it end it now!!!!!!!!
