Listen To News: Last Bullfight In Catalonia ~ 27 September 2011
Discussion Question: Despite the 180,000 signatures from people who call bullfighting cruel, one fan compared closing the Barcelona arena to "throwing a Picasso painting into garbage". What do you think about this comparison?
The Barcelona Arena and the bullfighting practice can even be a Picasso painting in the fan's opinion, that is, so important cultural figures for the Spanish identity but the bullfighting certainly is not in my view. Bullfighting is clearly a maltreatment against the animals that used to be used to promote it.
This fan comparison is an unhappy comparison, since, it considers the culture more important than the animal's lives sacrificed that event every year. As far as I know, in festivals like this, where people run away from an angry bull, the violent behaviour of animals is due to strings which tie up them perversely, making the animals feeling unpleasant and angry with anyone who crosses its viewfield that very instant.
Beyond this, the red colour showed up by bullfighters it's just a reason or motive to let the animal more unsatisfied before that uncomfortable situation.
The Spanish people should see the issue of Barcelona Arena closing not just like a loss for the country's culture, but, an opportunity to think over its concepts about the animal rights to not be mistreated in a cruel way, as they are in Spanish bullfights. We know at the end of most of that bullfights , the bulls are very impaired or dead, because of the wood stakes released by goers in them.
For me, bullfighting is an event which should be just remembered for us as a fallen cultural reference, in no way reproduced, otherwise we'll be contributing to an everlasting circuit of disrespect to the animal's right to life.
Beyond that, Spain is a country which has much more to offer in terms of culture than bullfighting. Just to look back for all the Spanish Middle Ages history for proving that. There are so many castles, kings, queens and remarkable historical events that make this country a true source of history, culture and admiration for all mankind. After all, it was Colombo that led from Spain in 1492 to come to the American continent, one of the most advanced events for the world that time.
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