Bullfighting Should Be Banned

I witnessed the bull being stuck with sharp, piercing banderillas over and over and over again to get the animal agitated for about half an hour before it faced the matador. The sweaty crowd in the stands was cheering, excited by their blood-lust. Drips of red streamed down the animal's sides. After that, the bullfighter stepped in the ring, taunted and teased, manipulating the weakened hulk of a beast as it lost more and more blood. Then, the matador finally stabbed the bull to death. Where is the honor in this? The bull never had a chance!

I am happy that bullfighting is now banned in Catalonia, Spain. When I was fourteen, my family took a trip to Mexico City. While there, we wanted to soak up as much local culture as we could , so we went to a bullfight. All I knew before my first taste of bullfighting, was that a matador uses a red cape and taunts the infuriated bull, so that it repeatedly charges the brave bullfighter. I assumed the bull went back in its pen after the spectacle, none the worse for wear. I soon found, however, that there was much more to this unsavory practice than that.

At a young age, I was stricken by the inhumanity of bullfighting. Therefore, I am glad that it's been banned in the northeastern part of Spain. This is the post-modern era. Don't we know better than to torture poor animals and then bring them slowly and painfully to a gruesome end? What do you think? Should bullfighting be banned?