Antikorrida

Brave woman wants to arrange a massacre 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. <Beautifully and quickly kill - lamenting the bullfighter in a skirt - it's hard. In equestrian bullfighting is done by rehona - <blades of death> length of 80 centimeters. And plunge it in a strictly defined place. There needs a great force. For example, I went to work out a blow to the slaughterhouse, and three years rocked the muscles. On my account 300 bulls>. Fate has presented Lydia Artamonova many surprises - from the Kabardino-Cossack ancestry to French husband that she probably should not accuse of being bloodthirsty, and pity, pity, pity ... All the same to other people, whom fate has awarded so dangerous to living things-minded, it is necessary to unite and stop the carnage on the Olympic arena, where the days of the Moscow Olympics was played in an oath of loyalty to humanistic ideals of humanity.

London scorns Madrid

Want the truth about bullfights? Read Jack London. That's at least: <Corrida spectacle harmful: it corrupts those who sees it - people get used to enjoy taunting the animal. Five of them to attack one stupid bull - in fact capable of it only a coward! And the audience is teaching cowardice. The bull dies, but people continue to live and learn a lesson>.

Madrid - the capital of Spain, where the annual die a cruel and agonizing death over 30 000 cattle. Thousands of cattle die in similar arenas France, Portugal, Mexico and South America.

Many people believe that bullfighting - is a dangerous fight between bull and man, during which the matador risking his life and shows desperate bravery and courage. Clothe an aura of romance, bullfighting is a rare, subtle, original art noble and fearless of the Spanish people.

In fact, bullfights - is ill-entertainment, public torture of the bull and enjoy killing. In this case, the enemy forces are not equal, and the outcome of the battle is always known. Even before the bull will enter the arena, everyone knows that he will be killed.

For example, in fighting bulls in France over the past 10 years were killed 33.000 bulls and only one matador's dead!

Well-known French toreador Pakirri to his 36 years tortured and killed 2,757 bulls.

The bull has no chance of winning

And may there be a force to be equal, 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 - they gave him a stimulant. These tricks are officially prohibited by the rules of this industry, are widely known, as even fans of bullfighting write and complain about it.

In many cases, sawed off the horns of bulls, making them shorter, it makes it difficult to estimate correctly the distance the bull. This operation, carried out without anesthesia, it is very painful, as the animal's horns are full of nerve endings.

Before the match bulls for a while 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 your eyes with Vaseline.

A whole day before the fight the bull does not give the water so that just before the release of the arena give him plenty. The animal had difficulty walking and is easily tired. And sometimes the bulls and simply incised tendon limbs!

Often used this trick: in order to enrage the bull before the fight, he was tied up with the testes, which causes excruciating pain and fury of the animal.

Sometimes the bull before the fight stab in the neck, because of which the bull is not able to turn of the head.

Special fitting camisoles matadors, dressed with a few people, designed to ensure that bull's horns, slipping, could not catch the person.

Many of the bulls used in arenas, so amazed by diseases that would be discarded if they were taken at regular slaughter. They could barely stand on his feet when he left to fight.

The spectacle, labeled sixes

On a standard program of bullfighting, which consists of 6 fights, killing six bulls. During the 15 minutes that lasts for each fight, the bull being attacked by six men armed with spears, harpoons, swords and daggers. Matador's assistants, using the red cape in a series of movements that lead the bull into confusion forcing him to expend energy is wasted. While some people tease him, while others are resting. A worn and heavy with water bull for a moment do not give a respite. Ox, swooping, closes his eyes. Knowing this, one bounce away, without wasting power. Bull neck pierced by numerous banderillas - swords with thin tips that pierce deep into the body of the bull and stay on 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 wounded bull tries in vain to escape from the battlefield to find a way out of the arena and get away from his pursuers, not knowing that he is doomed to become the next victim of mindless, entertaining the crowd celebrating.

Wounded bull is rarely killed single blow sword in his heart. Typically, the matador takes 3 or 4 attempts, Sticking more and more furiously every time. In one sadly memorable battle was pierced by a bull 34 times before he died! Death occurs as a result of internal bleeding that can last for 6 minutes before the bull to die, choking on his own blood.

After the fight, many matadors as a memorable trophy cut off from the defeated but still alive, a bull, your ears! Veterinarians disproved a widely held belief that the stabbing spears in the bull's body is equivalent to a mosquito bite. In fact, the bull is experiencing severe pain, which had to a man, if his body stuck the serrated skewer.

Often horses Picador also become victims of bullfighting, getting on the horns of an angry bull.

Corrida - 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, sadly made themselves famous monstrous torture, the Inquisition, the hideously cruel to animals entertainment (tearing birds, rabbits, stoning, throwing their asses with a bell during the fiestas, the burning of the bulls, etc.).

Someday we Thrill of these crimes and atrocities! Our unbridled interest in and enjoyment of another's suffering and pain will be a black mark in history and will burn the stigma souls of our children.

Currently, the society coming to realize the immorality of bullfighting and other cruel entertainment that even in his home country every year are losing 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, this figure reaches 83%. Nevertheless, it's fun survives at the expense of tourists who, despite the apparent rigidity, still visit the bullfighting ring for out of curiosity.

Not surprisingly, most people feel an aversion to what they see. And yet, the money received from each curious visitor - that's what makes it possible to continue the bullfight!

Supporters of bullfighting, not wanting to take the position, winning all the new countries, relying on the views of the backwardness and brutality of society, able to appreciate it <noble> spectacle. Russia - the first candidate for a killer?

Irina Novozhilov
Center for Ethical treatment of animals