Why are we bullfighting?

Bullfighting is a common spectacle in our country, but lately it's being questioned by part of the population. The discussion is about whether it's ethical or not.

In my opinion, bullfighting is anachronistic: it’s been a long time since we started bullfighting, most of countries have left behind some “traditions” which weren’t politically correct. We’ve kept this tradition, if we can consider bullfighting so.

Our laws protect animals from abuse, we cannot injure seriously our dog, for example. But there’s an exception in these laws: bulls aren’t protected. We may ask ourselves why. Don’t have bulls the same rights as other animals? Aren’t they animals too? Isn’t it a contradiction? Perhaps these laws exclude bulls in order not to forbid bullfighting. Perhaps we’re admitting that bullfighting is an abuse, a torture which ends with the animal’s death.

Some may say that bullfighting is interesting for tourists: Spain is the only place in Europe where we can see this spectacle. But we all know that bullfighting is not the only thing we have in this country: our beautiful beaches and our hot weather are the main source of tourists. Probably, most tourists don’t even see a bullfight during their stay in Spain.

Most of the media talk about great bullfights and famous bullfighters, but most of them don’t show the cruelty of this spectacle. The bull dies because of a massive loss of blood while everyone shouts and claps.

To sum up, I think bull fighting should be left in our past: it’s contradictory, cruel and it may not be interesting for our visitors.