By: Sylvia Davila MM
Bogotá/Copyright
http://www.pipolmagazine.com/2012/01/corridad-de-toros-para-animales.html/ VERSION EN ESPANOL
Photo taken from FACEBOOK
The Mayor of Bogota city and the Governor of Antioquia in Colombia in South America have recently
withdrawn financial support to bullfighting. Bullfighting followers - that
scenario where a group of people watch torture for fun… - came up with
arguments that leave astonished any modern rational
animal. Lidia de Toros (bullfighting) which they define as preparation to death cannot
be prohibited, they say, because it is a
practice that dates from many centuries ago which would be also true for slavery, people being
beheaded or bleedings to cure, common practices centuries ago. Impossible to
eliminate torture tools, they argue, because bullfighting followers are fanatics and would never permit it.
Also, they say, torturing and killing a living being gives great profit. It is difficult to believe that in this
second millennium torture and death is defended in the name of money and fanaticism. Somebody
even said once, “Bullfighting
prohibition takes us back to Inquisition". Some others consider it an
Art.
Inquisition
it is. At the best of his strength, the bull is isolated in a dark room
without food or water where he is stabbed in his back not too deep to kill him
just enough to hurt him. Then he is thrown into a plaza full of people
eager to witness torture. The moment he shows up he gets banderillas, knives on his back where he cannot reach them. He
fights for his life and the Plaza replies
Olé, Olé. When his executioner has
fed a gloomy ego with soulless applauses, and an incomprehensible public has
had enough of suffering, the magnificent and beautiful animal, alone, impotent,
crashed and mocked, dies by a sword straight into his heart. The trophy,
mutilation: his ears and tale. Inquisition is too modern a word for that.
The fact
that 90% of Colombian population opposes this practice with animals gives hope to a country
regularly visited by death and torture in people. The Mayor of Bogota and the Governor of Antioquia, regardless of their political views, in this issue stand
up for life. Bullfighting is the best reminder of Inquisition
or the Roman coliseum. And yes, it is also true that many of the inquisitors and
Caesars thought that what they were doing was an art./January 30/2012 - SDMM
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