B1 – Intermediate
It is no secret that Spain is famous for its bullfighting. Thousands of tourists get excited to watch a real bullfight in the arena.
Read the article below and express your thoughts about bullfighting and how activists are trying to stop the sport.
http://www.english-online.at/culture/bullfighting/bullfighting-in-spain.htm
Discussion Questions:
1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
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1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment? I think that we should respect and protect all animal life, I disagree with this type of entertainement that cause pain and dead of animals.
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena? No, I think that animals for food purpose should not suffer before died.
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting? Yes, I think it will be possible, each year it decrease and people is more consiuos about protecting animals.
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped? In Venezuela there is a popular tradition with rooster fighters, two roosters fight in a ring.
1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
I think that making an animal suffer and then killing it should not be entertainment. I respect to the people said that is a tradition and a part of our country culture.
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
The bull after death stop to suffer, and I don’t think that eating its meat is bad. I think the problem is the way killing it. Many people applaud and enjoy with its suffering and death.
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I don’t think that is a good idea trying to wipe out the industry of bullfighting, with the same or similar reasons also we should wipe out other industries, as porn, as violence videogames, tabaco, etc. In my opinion is better to try educating our children for aren’t consumers of that type of entertainment.
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
It’s possible, but as I said before, the strategy must be to combat these traditions with education and try to gradually stop them from being of general interest.
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1 What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
I think there are many other ways to entertain people,
I think that the mistreatment of any animal should not be entertainment.
2 Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
Once the bull is already dead, the best thing is that it can be used.
3 Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I think it will take many years for the bull industry to disappear, there is a lot of money at stake
4 Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
Of course yes, for example the bullfighting festival in Vega de Tordesillas and the embolado bulls, which put their horns on fire
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1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
I cannot believe how can still be a show in 2023. I dislike it and I am against it. It is not a fight, it is not fair and it is cruel. The bull dies after two hours of suffering. I do not understand why people like it.
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
I think they eat it, because these animals are a special breed.
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I think it is, but Spanish people do not wat to wipe it out because there is a lot money involved.
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
Yes, there are. There is another celebration where people puts firecrackers on bull’s horns and the bull panics and it starts running.
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1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
I think bullfighting is not a good kind of entertainment because in this show an animal, a living being, suffers and finally it dies. It is killed, so it is animal mistreatment.
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
Well, the bullfighting shouldn’t celebrate but after damaged is done at least it would serve like food.
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I think is very difficult to wipe out the industry of bullfighting, at least in some places where this show is deeply arraigated.
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
I think that there are not other historical activities in my country that should be stopped, I don’t know anyone of them.
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1.What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
It is an event that I don’t like at all. I think it’s an old-fashioned party.
2.Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
I think it is the best way to take advantage of the meat of the animal. Also, the bull meat is very good.
3.Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I think that with time this tradition will end. Very few young people like this industry.
4.Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
I think that today there are very few activities of this type. I only know the “fire bull”. This activity consists of putting fire in the bull’s horns and making it run down the street with people.
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1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
Here in Spain is vere complicated to explain this culture or this party. it´s true that is not pleassant. I think will disapper whit the time
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
Yes, and the bulls meat, if is cooker correctly, is delicious
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I don´t knwo, is very important here in Spain although it is not very profitable, i think.
If not bullfithing, is important to save this beatyfull animal
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
the bull fire was forbidden in many Spanish towns
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1. I think that the bullfighting is an total horror. I dont’0 understand that some people like this and I hope that in 2022, Spain close all bull’s place and never will see this horrible entertainment.
2. No, is a meat of torutate animal. I will never eat this.
3. Yes, in Catalonia is prohibited this. But in other regions of Spain doing yet.
4. Yes, in some towns of Catalonia, yet does “entertainment” with the pain of animals. Correbous (flames in the cuernos of bulls, bulls in the water of sea with his legs tied,…), … I fell shame about this, because I don’t understand that the people enjoy with this .
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1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
I think that bullfighting shouldn’t be a kind of entertainment in our country or in any other, because it involves the suffering and death of an animal. I consider myself an animalist and anything that has to do with the suffering of animals also hurts me.
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
I love bull meat, but if I know that it comes from a bull killed in a fight I will not eat it, of this I am sure.
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I think that it is not possible, because in my country a lot of importance is given to money, and unfortunately there are still many people who like to see bullfights, and the tickets to see some bullfights are very expensive.
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
Yes of course, for example in the Balearic Islands it is tradition that in San Juan the horses are balanced by the people. The riders make the horses get up and pass through the middle of many people, which makes the horses very nervous and panic.
In Seville it is also a tradition to ride in a carriage, and in summer the horses do not stop walking all day, without drinking or eating, and for this reason every summer dozens of horses die from the heat dehydrated and tired.
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1. In Spain, you can find many people who think for and against bullfighting, honestly, I can see this entertainment, I don’t like
2. If you think that this animal is similar to a cow or an ox, you can eat it without problem, it is normal meat to eat
3. Buff, this question is very difficult to answer, in Spain, there are many people who work in the industry of bullfighting, and there are different political parties that think that bullfighting is a culture
4. It may be, now I have not seen anything on television for a long time, but I remember that in a town in Spain, a goat was thrown from a church steeple
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1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
I´m against bullfight because i think that it is a cruel performance. The show ends with the death of an animal, in this case, of the bull. So I dont think it is a good act. In addition, there are other ways of entertainment.
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
No, because they have died in a cruel way so its not fair. They shouldn´t been killed for the entertainment of people.
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
I would like to wipe out the industry of bullfigthing but I think it´s difficult because here it´s a tradition and it costs a lot to eradicate a show which exits since many years ago.
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
Yes, of course, and they are related to the bulls too. For example, in the my area, there is an event called “Toro de San Juan” and it consits of sticking many darts at a bull until the bull is completely covered by darts and then they shoot at the bull and kill him. Other one is celebrated in Soria and it´s called “toro embolado” and people put in the bull´s horns a bengal and they enjoy watching how the bull suffers burns all over the body.
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In my opinion bullfighting, nowadays, has not the same importance in Spain as many century or decades ago. In the past, this celebration was perceived like an important hallmark of Spanish culture, like a kind of sport and obviously like an art performance with all type of costumes, typical movements and all those big arenas. Today, because of Spain has much more to offer and due to Animalist’s protests, the number of performance are going down fast, the earn of bullfighters are decreasing and the major part of young citizen thinking that it is an old and cruel tradition that should be arrested in all Spanish territory.
Sincerely I don’t know what usually they do with the bull meat after it is killed, and also I don’t know if the bull meat is good to eat in a sanitary sense.
Well I think it is happening yet. Many people and family earned money from this tradition, but time change and those peoples are modifying themselves to adapt the modern reality.
In many parts of Spain, bullfighting is wipe out yet since many years, and I think that it’s the first step to create a society more respectful with all kind of life. At the moment I don’t remember any other tradition that could injury animals only for men joy here in Spain, but for sure animalists target is not only tradition and celebrations but also the food industry. We should promote a more ethical and healthy food industry.
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1. What do you think of bullfighting as a kind of entertainment?
i dont like bullfighting
2. Do you think bulls should be eaten after being killed in the arena?
I don’t think they should be killed in the arena.
3. Is it possible to completely wipe out the industry of bullfighting?
In Spain it is very difficult, there is still a lot of amateur of this
4. Are there other historical activities in your country that should be stopped?
If too many
Nowadays people are more aware of animals suffering and most of spanish people don’t like this traditions. In some places bullfighting has wipe out and other places will be complicated to eliminate. Some people in Spain think that this old tradition should be practise because it is a part of the culture. I don’t agree because I think that culture is made up of the music, the dance, the food or the language. This type of things because they don’t hurt anyone and anything.
In my opinion not only is bullfighting a unpleasant entertainment, it is also an activity that should be disappear.