Every year, about 250,000 bulls are killed in bullfights -- stabbed multiple times with barbed lances and banderillas (spiked wooden sticks) before suffering slow, agonizing deaths in front of an audience, including children.
Don't let France and Spain have bullfighting protected as "cultural heritage" »
Bullfights aren't "fair fights" between a bull and a matador. They're highly staged forms of animal cruelty. Attendance is at an all-time low and several countries and cities have even banned the fights. Bullfighting might be a part of some countries' past, but people don't want this outdated bloodsport to continue »
Yet France and Spain are trying to have bullfighting listed by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a form of "cultural heritage," which would give a veneer of respectability to the torture of animals for public entertainment and could financially safeguard bullfighting.
Tell UNESCO not to designate bullfighting as a cultural heritage, because bullfighting isn't culture, it's cruelty »
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