This bulls for you...

I saw an article/video on an 11 year old French-Mexican bull fighter with over 160 kills to his name, which means he is considered a veteran bull-fighter by far. He slayed 6 young bulls in a single fight which is a record for the youngest to do so. They say he stepped into the bull ring at the age of 4. His dad was a matador, I guess it runs in the family. However, is it just me or is that a little to young?

Animal Rights Groups are involved of course, but they always have been in this blood-sport. Would the United States allow someone to bull fight under the age of even say 15? I'm not sure. Just seems a little crazy to me.

I don't know whats worse the fact that this 11 year old could die in the ring at any given moment or the fact that I think bullfighting is simply inhumane?

I just don't like how they make a spectacle and sport about it. I mean I know the losing bulls go to the market the next day and basically feed everyone. But couldn't they just kill them normally? I guess it really doesn't make a difference, either way they're going to die. Do they suffer more this way, or is it in their nature to rather go down fighting? Animal rights say its a torturous slow death and stressful. Although, If they survive and the crowd yells something like brave in Spanish loud enough and repeatedly enough the bull gets to live in a pasture for years to come and be a stud. Which wouldn't be a bad living for it. This of course if they survive the trip home after being stabbed a few times and dehydrated.

I guess it's entertainment for them and someone is obviously making money. Most importantly it is a huge culutural tradition and that has to play an important factor in trying to understand it. Bullfighting gives jobs to a lot of people, the ticket office, the bullfighters themselves, the people that load the bulls and let them go, the picadores, aka assistants with lances, the people who sell the bulls, and I'm sure there's lots of other positions I'm missing. A matadore has a whole entourage. I could add the market place, but they would get meat one way or another without the actual bullfights.

I would love to do the running of the bulls one time. I saw that one year two brothers got poked in the rear by the same bull. That is funny.

• Book club meeting is tomorrow.
  
• Hope it doesn't snow too much tonight, and that it warms up.
• Already thinking about pancake breakfast at the Rock Creek Fire Hall every Sunday in March, it is so damn good. Who wants to go with me?
• Thank-you to everyone who routinely reads my blog, you honestly don't know how much it means to me.
• Wore my new dress shoes, but sadly didn't get any compliments on them.
• Damn Mo Williams had an amazing game and Lebron got another triple double. Crazy stuff.
  

Quote of the day: "Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
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