namewaiter said:
wow ... just now taking a look at this thread for the first time, it took a pc turn - i didn't expect that.
this is a definite change from the usual .tv fare!
of course, before we have a total meltdown about the horrors of bullfighting, we should, if we were being non-hypocritical, take a look a bit closer to home...because the way most meat in the US is produced is in conditions that are pretty atrocious to the animals that one day end up as our hamburgers, chicken fingers, etc
Most farm animals in the US do not live in anything that you would recognize from popular imagination as a "farm." They live in cramped, painful, unnatural, inhumane condititions and then we slaughter them and eat them. If anyone cares, I can dig up the references, but trust me, it is pretty horrible.
I am not defending bullfighting and I am not a vegetarian (though I am pretty sure that morally I ought to be), but before we go fix the Spanish of their sins, there is a whole lot of ugliness here at home that I would imagine 90%+ of this board is directly complicit in. (e.g. do you eat animals one to three times a day). And the number of animals that suffer for our palate is probably close to 100,000x more than the number of bulls that suffer for Spain's heritage. The bulls are tortured for 20-30 minutes and they die. Our farm animals might be killed quickly but are miserable for most of their lives.
Anyway, that is enough "deep thoughts" for one day! JMO of course. Have zero intention of hurting anyone's feelings!
