Why does the EU allow the Running of the Bulls?

Seaneh · 12-07-2013 04:30PM

BillJ wrote: »

Incase you didn't know these bulls run through the streets and straight into the arena where a bull fighting tournament takes places, they are all then brutally killed for the enjoyment of thousands of people watching and cheering.

Don't think it's out of whack at all to be honest, i think anyone supporting such a 'sport' deserves it.

Never said I hoped it would happen, just that I don't feel sorry for them.

The bull fights happen several hours after the run (the run is 8am, the fights start after 6pm). The vast major of people in the city for san fermin don't attend the fights or even go to the stadium at all.

The bulls run a mile and s bit from a pen, through the streets and into the stadium into another pen and then let out one by one for 3-5 mind each to run around for a bit while there are a hundred or so people in the ring trying not to get in the way.

If bullfighting was banned in the morning people would go to san fermin in their hundreds of thousands every year just fir the fiesta.

Best festival in the world.

ted1 · 12-07-2013 04:31PM

I have friends from there and they explained what happens.

Basically the Locals take it serious and go to bed early, the tourists stay out late drinkign in the bars and are genreally hung over or drunk durin the bull running and its only the tourists that get hurt.

the locals would prefer if the tourists didn't go.

1ZRed · 12-07-2013 04:31PM

**Vai** wrote: »

I didn't say it was the same, just that it will happen.

That doesn't justify it. That's like me going out and torturing an animal every single day of it's life just for my own amusement because it's going to die eventually anyway, so I shouldn't worry about it.

It's a terrible justification for what they do. Hiding behind tradition is a complete cop out.

**Vai** · 12-07-2013 04:31PM

Oh please, they get a bolt in the forehead which does not always work. Its hardly a walk in the park either way. Least they get a run at some humans first in Pamplona.

Lapin · 12-07-2013 04:32PM

Fúck it I'd love to do the bull run.

Next year definitely.

I wonder do you just turn up and go for it, or do you have to apply in advance ?

Hitchens · 12-07-2013 04:33PM

Seaneh wrote: »

You've obviously never been to san fermin. There are thousands of police in the city clearing the course every morning and making sure nobody who is intoxicated, too young, too small or with video cameras us on the course.

An American, 20, was gored in the stomach - he is in a serious condition.

A 42-year-old Spaniard was left with arm injuries.

Most bloody attack was 31-year-old twice in the groin and once in the leg.

Another three people, including a 48-year-old American, injured in run.

A couple of fairly old geezers in the injured list

BillJ · 12-07-2013 04:35PM

Seaneh wrote: »

The bull fights happen several hours after the run (the run is 8am, the fights start after 6pm). The vast major of people in the city for san fermin don't attend the fights or even go to the stadium at all.

The bulls run a mile and s bit from a pen, through the streets and into the stadium into another pen and then let out one by one for 3-5 mind each to run around for a bit while there are a hundred or so people in the ring trying not to get in the way.

If bullfighting was banned in the morning people would go to san fermin in their hundreds of thousands every year just fir the fiesta.

Best festival in the world.

It may be a few hours after the run but supporting the run is still supporting the fighting element to it.

I don't disagree that people would still go if it was banned, infact that's even better! Ban the bull fighting and still have a great festival, win win. I've several friends who have been and said it was a brilliant festival.

**Vai** · 12-07-2013 04:36PM

1ZRed wrote: »

That doesn't justify it. That's like me going out and torturing an animal every single day of it's life just for my own amusement because it's going to die eventually anyway, so I shouldn't worry about it.

Im not trying to justify it.

Your metaphor doesn't really work. Little too dramatic.

Seaneh · 12-07-2013 04:38PM

Lapin wrote: »

Fúck it I'd love to do the bull run.

Next year definitely.

I wonder do you just turn up and go for it, or do you have to apply in advance ?

Book your hotel/hostel well in advance (like January) and get to the town hall at around 8am when the close off the streets and allow people to enter the course from the one opening. Gate closes at 8am. Anyone in the streets before the the streets are closed is forced off the course by the cops.

About 10 minutes before the bulls are released people are allowed to move along the course to the part they want to run (you can't run the whole course, its impossible).

1ZRed · 12-07-2013 04:40PM

Lapin wrote: »

Fúck it I'd love to do the bull run.

Next year definitely.

I wonder do you just turn up and go for it, or do you have to apply in advance ?

See I'd love to do it too, and if I got hurt it'd be me my own damn fault, but I wouldn't have much interest in watching it die.

1ZRed · 12-07-2013 04:43PM

**Vai** wrote: »

Im not trying to justify it.

Your metaphor doesn't really work. Little too dramatic.

Same thing. You obviously don't see the difference in how both types of animals are killed, you just see it as means to an end.

Seaneh · 12-07-2013 04:43PM

1ZRed wrote: »

See I'd love to do it too, and if I got hurt it'd be me my own damn fault, but I wouldn't have much interest in watching it die.

This.

I have no interest in the bullfighting, I wouldn't care I'd it was banned. I didn't go to the stadium even though I was offered free tickets.

But doing the run was one of the best memories of my life. I'm definitely going back next year. I was there 5 summers ago.

**Vai** · 12-07-2013 04:46PM

1ZRed wrote: »

Same thing. You obviously don't see the difference in how both types of animals are killed, you just see it as means to an end.

Course I see the difference, I look at things as they are and try extract some amount of positivity. I just dislike this whole ban-everything kick that people are on. I agree with you in that I would have no interest in the fighting part of the event but the bull run would be great.

1ZRed · 12-07-2013 04:49PM

Seaneh wrote: »

This.

I have no interest in the bullfighting, I wouldn't care I'd it was banned. I didn't go to the stadium even though I was offered free tickets.

But doing the run was one of the best memories of my life. I'm definitely going back next year. I was there 5 summers ago.

I'd agree, I've always had an interest in doing it, it'd be a massive thrill! If the bull got he's day out on the town mauling everyone and got to go back to his pen again I'd see nothing wrong with it. I really dislike the bullfighting though and would prefer it banned.

Potatoeman · 12-07-2013 05:03PM

Ush1 wrote: »

Killing something humanely to eat is not the same as torturing it to death for amusement.

The bull has more chance surviving a bullfight than an abattoir.

I remember when the antifur campaign destroyed the mink trade in the UK. The farmers killed all the mink as they could no longer make money from them. I believe that the breed is now on the endangered species list.

DellyBelly · 12-07-2013 05:06PM

We should do this in the dail. Let the bulls run around after the tds...ha ha ha ha

Ush1 · 12-07-2013 05:07PM

Potatoeman wrote: »

The bull has more chance surviving a bullfight than an abattoir.

I remember when the antifur campaign destroyed the mink trade in the UK. The farmers killed all the mink as they could no longer make money from them. I believe that the breed is now on the endangered species list.

The bull has no chance of surviving the bull fight. In fact, calling it a bull "fight" is a bit of a joke as it implies a competitive element.

The clue is the name of the bulls opponent, el matador.

BillJ · 12-07-2013 05:10PM

Potatoeman wrote: »

The bull has more chance surviving a bullfight than an abattoir.

I remember when the antifur campaign destroyed the mink trade in the UK. The farmers killed all the mink as they could no longer make money from them. I believe that the breed is now on the endangered species list.

Fair enough the numbers have dropped since the mink fur trade finished but having healthy mink numbers but still having them in cages ready to be killed for fur doesn't seem much better than the situation now.

And I don't think the bull population would suffer in the same way if the bull fighting industry was banned :P

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-07-2013 05:11PM

That was kinda funny. Big fcuking eejit.

Radharc na Sleibhte · 12-07-2013 05:14PM

Seaneh wrote: »

you can't run the whole course, its impossible).

Challenge accepted

Wattle · 12-07-2013 05:17PM

If I was one of those bulls and I knew they were gonna kill me I'd go nuts and gore everything in sight. Even up the score a bit.

calanus · 12-07-2013 05:29PM

It is funny to watch during the bull-run when all the bulls have already passed certain people, these people continue to run full pelt after the bulls. You just avoided a mauling you dingus, slow down!!!!!

daddyorchips · 12-07-2013 05:46PM

Old and grey wrote: »

We should do that here, but use selected politicans and ex bankers to run in front of the bulls!

and dont forget the junkies and dole scroungers

the_syco · 12-07-2013 05:47PM

Hitchens wrote: »

You play with fire, be prepared to get burnt.

Also, the bull seems to try riding the dude after it tosses the dude to the ground?

MickFleetwood · 12-07-2013 06:32PM

juice1304 wrote: »

Serves him right. Play with fire and your gonna get burned.
Animal cruelty for entertainment is simply wrong. And the fools saying it's their culture etc.. Well in some parts of the world it is their "culture" to punish women who are raped etc..., dose it negate the fact it is wrong because it is their culture? No it doesn't wrong is wrong.

Punishing women who are raped is something very, very morally wrong. This is an event which people participate in which holds some form of danger, the two are not in any way related. :pac:

A cultural tradition in which people who are conscious of the risk and danger involved should obviously not be banned. As far as I can see the bulls are not harmed during the event. So why ban it?

Potatoeman · 12-07-2013 06:53PM

BillJ wrote: »

Fair enough the numbers have dropped since the mink fur trade finished but having healthy mink numbers but still having them in cages ready to be killed for fur doesn't seem much better than the situation now.

And I don't think the bull population would suffer in the same way if the bull fighting industry was banned :P

They are viewed as pests when not beingfarmed. It's all well and good being moral about your consumption butthe simple fact is that animals that are not of use to us quickly getwiped out especially those that are pests.

Obviously banning bull fighting won'treduce the bovine population but if these beasts are bredspecifically for these events would they have been kept at all ifthey were male? Is the bullfighting providing a usefulness for themale bulls that would otherwise have not been kept?

Potatoeman · 12-07-2013 06:56PM

Ush1 wrote: »

The bull has no chance of surviving the bull fight. In fact, calling it a bull "fight" is a bit of a joke as it implies a competitive element.

The clue is the name of the bulls opponent, el matador.

Matadors can lose and die.

MickFleetwood · 12-07-2013 06:58PM

Potatoeman wrote: »

Matadors do lose and die.

Not often enough. :mad:

12-07-2013 07:01PM

Humans get their kicks, bulls get to ram into humans.

Win/win.

Potatoeman · 12-07-2013 07:11PM

MickFleetwood wrote: »

Not often enough. :mad:

Better odds than a slaughterhouse. That's a pretty cold comment, I would value a human life over that of an animal. It also undermines your argument about cruelty when you wish for people to die.

Why does the EU allow the Running of the Bulls?

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