Jiggling and joggling to wake up the souls...
The bullring was bursting with cheers –‘Ole’ ‘Ole’ of more than twenty-five thousand aficionados of bull fighting. The applause surged and all stood up in ovation for the flamboyant horse-mounted lancer’s (called rejoneador) extraordinary (rather ruthless) antic of stabbing the bull. And the next hit, superbly stylish and almost fatal, that made the fierce animal lose its balance for some seconds and then run around helplessly in pain excited the spectators who waved their white handkerchiefs – an unequivocal indication to reward the rejoneador for his flair and feat. Well, the reward was no less brutal than the game – two severed ears of the dead bull – and he is then killed with one final blow on the head.
Sitting for the first time (and surely the last time) in the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, I felt as if I was guilty of animal cruelty...
This was just one of those several sadistic bull fighting events, which take place in Spain during San Isidiro, the world’s most famous bullfighting festival every year. For this, the bulls are bred and trained to be hostile of which the most aggressive and irritable ones are picked for the fight. While many laws have been enacted in Spain to abolish cruelty against animals, bullfighting has been exempted from all. Unfortunately, even while making rules for reducing the goriness of the game, the national authorities of Spain could only think of safety of the humans involved by introducing operating theatres on the premises and adding more padding to the lancer’s horses. As a result of this, and more across the world, the international body – League Against Cruel Sports (that aims to end cruelty against animals) in association with Spanish animal welfare groups has come up with the campaign called ‘Balls to Bull fighting’.
The bullring was bursting with cheers –‘Ole’ ‘Ole’ of more than twenty-five thousand aficionados of bull fighting. The applause surged and all stood up in ovation for the flamboyant horse-mounted lancer’s (called rejoneador) extraordinary (rather ruthless) antic of stabbing the bull. And the next hit, superbly stylish and almost fatal, that made the fierce animal lose its balance for some seconds and then run around helplessly in pain excited the spectators who waved their white handkerchiefs – an unequivocal indication to reward the rejoneador for his flair and feat. Well, the reward was no less brutal than the game – two severed ears of the dead bull – and he is then killed with one final blow on the head.
Sitting for the first time (and surely the last time) in the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, I felt as if I was guilty of animal cruelty...
This was just one of those several sadistic bull fighting events, which take place in Spain during San Isidiro, the world’s most famous bullfighting festival every year. For this, the bulls are bred and trained to be hostile of which the most aggressive and irritable ones are picked for the fight. While many laws have been enacted in Spain to abolish cruelty against animals, bullfighting has been exempted from all. Unfortunately, even while making rules for reducing the goriness of the game, the national authorities of Spain could only think of safety of the humans involved by introducing operating theatres on the premises and adding more padding to the lancer’s horses. As a result of this, and more across the world, the international body – League Against Cruel Sports (that aims to end cruelty against animals) in association with Spanish animal welfare groups has come up with the campaign called ‘Balls to Bull fighting’.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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