BULLFIGHTING

In this post, as the title says, I wanted to give my opinion about the bullfighting, a tradition here in Spain. The practice of the bullfighting has been criticised in many occasions and it has caused a lot of controversy, not only nowadays but since this tradition was born. The people are divided in two: the ones who are in favour of this and the ones who are in against it (well, actually in three, because there are also the ones who don’t care about it). There are several reasons for both groups to stand up for their opinions, but for the ones who are in favour of it, the main reason would be that is a cultural show and a tradition that needs to be continued; and for the ones who are against it, the main reason is that this tradition means to torture innocent animals. 

Well, in my case, I belong to the second group; I am totally against it, because I don’t think it is morally correct. Some defenders of the bullfighting say that it is a tradition that has been practised for many years, meaning that it’s something that people have been doing for such a long time, that we have to accept it now. But I don’t think this is a reasonable reason, because if you analyze the history, you can say that lots of things have changed during the years, so that shows that things can change and we don’t have to live with something we don’t like because “it has been always like this”. So I guess this is only an excuse for the defenders of it, to keep practising their loved bullfighting.  

I don’t like the fact that they “play” with the bulls, rouse them with the red flags, and if bullfighting were only about this, I wouldn’t be the most interested person in it. But it’s not about this at all; bulls suffer from physical damages. They get stabbed with the called “puyas”, “banderillas” and “estoques”, and this makes them lose a big amount of blood that ends up by killing them, and if it doesn’t, they make sure the “torero” kills it, because it’s “the tradition”.

Actually, thanks to several surveys, we know that there is lots of people who are against the bullfighting, but unfortunately it’s still a popular practise in some parts of Spain.  About a month ago the government even created studies to get a professional title in tauromachy, which inspires people to study it, without thinking about the condition of the bulls, the opinion of the majority or the risks the “toreros” face by practising this.

And maybe some people will think that as I am catalan, I am against this because it’s a Spanish tradition, but I want to clarify that I am against the bullfighting, but I am also against the “correbous” celebrated in Catalonia.