Karma In The Bullfighting Arena
 Thursday, July 24th, 2008  by Connie T.

If this isn't Karma, we don't know what is. A bullfighting arena in Columbia collapsed this week, and eighteen people were injured in the incident. Not that we're saying the eighteen victims deserved to be hurt. It's just nice to know the owners of that Arena aren't rubbing their mitts together at the moment.

Bullfighting is an outdated, barbaric practice that confuses, maims, psychologically torments and physically debilitates (or kills) thousands upon thousands of animals each year.

Their horns are shaved and the bulls are often drugged, both done to make it easier for the matadors and picadors to attack the bulls by driving lances into their backs and neck muscles. This often ends in the matador stabbing the bull in the spinal cord with a dagger, from which the bull may die, or remain torturously conscious. If the bloodbath pleased the crowd, the bull's ears and tail are usually cut off as a gift.

Bullfighters - and those who attend these events as spectators - are cowards, in my opinion.


1. Please sign the World Wide Bullfighting Pledge.

2. Sign PETA's petition, an effort to end bullfighting and the Running of the Bulls.

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