In three European countries, Portugal, Spain and Southern France, bullfights are still held as an important part of their "traditions." Worse: in Portugal killing the bulls in the arena is overall forbidden but some years ago the Portuguese Government passed a law in Parliament creating an exception for the village of Barrancos. Can you imagine, in your own countries, laws with exceptions?
Whether they're killed or not bulls are taken from the farms where they grew up, are transported by trucks, stuck in comportments in the bullfight arena, then finally released to be tortured. In Spain they even inflict wound on bulls' necks with sharp pikes in order to increase their natural instinct of attack as a form of desperate defence. If you never saw a bullfight try some Portuguese, Spanish or French television channels, they're full of that.
Horses, too, get wounded and sometimes get killed by bulls. Men also get wounded or killed. This is one of the last brutal Roman circus "shows", and what's worse is the fact that Catholic Church tolerates this insane display of cruelty. Do you think its just for adults? You're wrong: kids may also join their parents and come to a Bullring provided they're over 12, in Portugal.
So far only in Catalonia (Northwestern Spain) and in the Canary Islands it has been abolished. Bring some sense to these demented Europeans!
