Antikorrida

The woman brave eager to arrange the slaughter in Moscow. In September 2001, at the Olympic Sports Complex will be the first public killing of bulls. The initiator acts - who would have thought! - Woman, young, pretty, educated. <Nice and quick kill - laments bullfighter in a skirt - it's hard. In the equestrian bullfight is done using rehona - <blades of death> 80 centimeters in length. And sink it in a strictly defined place. You need a huge force. For example, I went to work out a blow to the slaughter, and three years rocked the muscles. On my account of 300 bulls>. Fate has presented many surprises Lydia Artamonova - from Kabardino-Cossack ancestry to the Frenchman's husband, that she probably should not accuse of being bloodthirsty, but sorry, sorry, sorry ... All the same the rest of the people to whom fate bestowed so dangerous for living beings temper, it is necessary unite and stop the carnage in the Olympic arena, where in the days of the Moscow Olympics sounded oath of loyalty to the humanistic ideals of humanity.

London, Madrid, despises

Want the truth about bullfighting? Read Jack London. That's at least: <Bullfighting show harmful: it corrupts those who see it - people get used to enjoy taunting the animal. Five of them to attack one stupid bull - because this can only miserable cowards! And it teaches viewers cowardice. The bull dies, but people still live and learn a lesson>.

Madrid - Spain's capital city, where every year die a cruel and painful death of more than 30,000 bulls. Thousands of cattle are killed at such venues in France, Portugal, Mexico and South America.

Many people believe that bullfighting - it is a dangerous fight between a bull and a man, during which the bullfighter risks his life and shows a desperate bravery and courage. Clothed with an aura of romance, bullfighting is a rare, delicate, original art noble and fearless of the Spanish people.

In fact, bullfights - a cruel game, the public torture of the bull and the pleasure of killing. In this case the enemy forces are not equal, and the outcome of the battle is always known. Even before the bull leaves the arena, everyone knows that he will be killed.

For example, on bullfighting in France over the past 10 years, 33,000 were killed and only one bull matador dead!

The famous French bullfighter Pakirri to his 36 years of tortured and killed 2,757 bulls.

The bull has no chance of winning

And may there be a force equal to, if before the fight bulls are often beaten with heavy sandbags. If the bull is very aggressive, he administered a sedative if you do not want to go into the ring - give him a stimulant. These tricks, officially prohibited the rules of the industry are widely known, as even a bullfight fans write and complain about it.

In many cases, the bulls horns sawed off, making them shorter, it makes it difficult to properly evaluate a bull distance. This operation, carried out without anesthesia, it is very painful, as the animal's horns are filled with nerve endings.

Before the match for a while bulls are kept in a dark room, and then released into the lighted arena, they are poorly oriented. Sometimes, in order to weaken the bull's eye just smear Vaseline eyes.

A day before the fight the bull does not give the water so that just before the release of the arena to drink plenty of it. The animal had difficulty walking and is easily tired. And sometimes just a notch bulls and tendons of limbs!

Often used a trick to annoy the bull before the fight, he was tied up with the testes, causing excruciating pain and fury of the animal.

Sometimes the bull before the fight with a dagger stabbed in the neck, due to which the bull can not make head turns.

Special fitting jackets matadors, worn by several people, are designed to ensure that the bull's horns, slipping, could not catch the person.

Many of the bulls used in arenas, so impressed with diseases that would be rejected if they had taken the usual carnage. They could hardly stand up when left on the battle.

The spectacle, labeled sixes

In the standard program of bullfighting, which consists of six fights, killing six bulls. During the 15 minutes that lasts for every fight, the bull is attacked by six men armed with spears, harpoons, swords and daggers. Matador's assistants, using a red cape in a series of movements that lead the bull into confusion causing him to expend energy to waste. While some people tease him more rest. A fatigued and heavy with water for a moment the bull does not give a break. Bull attacking, closes his eyes. Knowing this, one bounce away, without wasting power. The neck is pierced by numerous bull banderillas - with fine-tipped swords, which pierce deep into the body of a bull, and remain throughout the fight.

As soon as it follows the blood from the wounds of the animal, it becomes weaker and weaker, it is groaning in pain when his neck is torn and wrapped barbed swords. Often the wounded bull tries in vain to escape from the battlefield, to find a way out of the arena and away from his pursuers, not knowing that he is doomed to become another victim of senseless, entertain the crowd celebrating.

The wounded bull is rarely killed by a single blow to the sword in the heart. Typically, the matador takes 3 or 4 attempts, sinking more and more furiously every time. In one memorable fight a bull sadly was pierced 34 times before he died! Death occurs as a result of internal bleeding that can last six minutes before the bull will die, choking on his own blood.

After the fight, many matadors as a memorable trophy cut from the defeated but still alive, a bull, your ears! Veterinarians have refuted a widespread belief that the stabbing spear into the body of a bull is equivalent to a mosquito bite. In fact, the bull suffers severe pain, which had to a man, if his body is stuck in a jagged skewer.

Often horses picador as victims of bullfighting, getting on the horns of an angry bull.

Bullfighting - a bloodthirsty, barbaric tradition, which is a relic of the past in some countries and entering into conflict with the principles of humanism, compassion and mercy. Its roots originated in medieval Spain, notorious for a monstrous torture, the Inquisition, hideously violent entertainment with animals (birds, tearing heads, stoning of rabbits, donkeys, dropping a bell during the fiestas, burning bulls, etc.).

Someday we horribly from these crimes and atrocities! Our interest and unbridled pleasure and pain, the suffering of strangers become a black mark in the history of mankind, and will burn the stigma of the soul of our descendants.

Currently, the society comes to realize the immorality of bullfighting and other cruel entertainment that even in their homeland each year lose their popularity. Thus, the counting of votes produced by the Ministry of Culture of Spain showed that over 50% of Spaniards are against bullfighting. In France the figure is 83%. Nevertheless, it's fun still exists due to tourists, who, despite the apparent rigidity of the still rings to attend a bullfight out of curiosity.

Not surprisingly, most people are disgusted by what they see. And yet, the money received from each curious visitor - this is what makes it possible to continue the bull!

Supporters of bullfighting, not wanting to take positions, gaining a more and more countries, relying on the views of the backwardness and cruelty of society, able to appreciate it <noble> spectacle. Russia - the first candidate for the killer?

Irina Novozhilov
Center for ethical treatment of animals