Spanish Bullfighting: Animal Abuse or Cultural Heritage?

I never particularly got the whole thing about animal's rights and the self righteousness behind it. I completely agree in that needlessly torturing animals is wrong (more along the lines of pointless though) and we should protect the ecosystem but I don't quite see how either of those is being accomplished by fighting for this issue. Bullfighting bulls have no place in the ecosystem and the moment this is forbidden they also have no place in any form of farm (perhaps underground and clandestine bullfighting would be a nice place for them if such a thing ever does indeed become a thing). Its not like animals in their natural state don't kill for fun either. Once this stops are we going to stop dolphins, lions, mongooses and a number of other cute and not so cute animals from killing other stuff (such as sharks, baby lions and whatever runs into a mongoose) for the fun of it (or in the lion's case simply to get laid)?

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Originally Posted by shinsengumi

im not mad ,im just too objective and trying not to look at things from only humankind's perspective . we are killing the planet the same way cancer kills a metabolism

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surely if mankind goes on this way,we will suffer too much. as Itachi told kisame in volume 54 of naruto( :p ) those who kill others must be ready to be killed as well. if a torero (bullfighter) kills bulls,then he isn't allowed to complain if he will be hurted or even killed by a bull.If people want to prevent that,they better stop doing these actions.

I wouldn't want bullfighting in my county but the traditional Spanish culture which created it was overall kinder to animals than the post-enlightenment West. In medieval, Catholic Europe there was no vivisection nor factory farming. But today Brits who stuff their face with battery chicken and use cosmetics tested on a rabbit's eyes, start lecturing the brown Dego people on how to treat animals after seeing something on the television. But they don't want to know about the cruelty involved behind closed doors to sustain their chosen decadent lifestyle. They know about it alright, they just don't want to be reminded, horrible little creatures.

Anyways, I admire the values bullfighting claims to represent, but when Spaniards start talking about 'honour' and 'respecting the bull' when bulls are run through the streets with fireworks attached to their horns, they're insulting my intelligence lol. Today's bullfighting like the Roman arena has degraded to a tasteless, crude and populist spectacle, like soccer just with death and blood in it, and associating such televised mass entertainments with talk of nobility and high culture is absurd. But I've better things to do with my time than bash Europeans IMO. Animal protection activists here should start by banning the Jewish and Moslem ritual slaughter of animals, cosmetics tested on animals, and fur from animals raised for reasons other than food.