Argumentative Essay: The Inhumanity Of Bullfights

Bullfighting is like a spreading disease, slowly but surely it spreads, insidiously killing and torturing the animals involved in the way of the bullfight. In reality, bullfights aren’t a source of entertainment. Rather, they’re the prolonged death of the bull, having the matador killing the bull at the first sight of dwaining excitement from the crowd. They are also a death sentence from a ruthless or ignorant crowd. As George Shaw said, “The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, rather, be indifferent to them: that is the essence of inhumanity.” I believe that this quote speaks for itself, showing affection to animals is a way of showing humanity, unlike the use of them as a form of entertainment.

Some of those in the crowd of bullfights are completely ignorant to the amount of violence that takes place.
In fact, bulls are a more biddable animal, therefore taking precautions around other animals and people. Quite the same with the bulls inside the ring. Being as subtle as they are, they would never charge an animal unprovoked. This being the real side of the animal, especially in the case of the bulls bred for fighting, are entirely slow, predictable, and harmless. But the reason they are led to charge at the matador is a whole other hellish one. This one being the torturous days leading up to the bulls death. It is tormented for two days all the while being stuck inside a dark box to disorient the animal. “The bull has wet newspapers stuffed into his ears; Vaseline is rubbed into his eyes to blur his vision; cotton is stuffed up his nostrils to cut off his respiration and a needle is stuck into his genitals.” When the bull is released from its personal hell, it bounds to the long awaited light. A light that gives hope of being released. Instead it is quite literally the light at the end of the tunnel, a death sentence to all those who