A few years of being fed and pampered, roaming freely in the fields, then dying horribly in the bullring or abattoir, vs never being born at all. It's a moral dilemma and I can't answer it. I suspect many animal rights campaigners don't even consider it.
At least the animals don't know what's in store for them.
Hi - I'd prefer to hope that, in the case of the human perpetrators and the audiences, the 'moral dilemma' as to whether, or not, it's acceptable and justifiable to torture a live, sentient mammal to death, in a barbaric, sadistic and ritualistic manner, on the grounds that the bull was treated decently up until it was transported to the bull ring, might, within the next decade, no longer cause any human being to lie awake at night, mulling over the 'pros' and 'cons' - because bull- chasing, goading and killing by degree, slowly, for entertainment, would have been exposed for the diabolical, abhorrent, pathetic, twisted travesty of human behaviour that it is!
BTW, the horses used and abused as bait within the bull- ring are rarely even considered by those who advocate the continuation of live- animal tormenting and killing, in front of an audience! Perhaps, if more humans were made fully aware of the forms of training and the suffering inflicted on horses during the 'fights', even when not actually being mauled or even gored to death ( as so many are..), there would, surely, be a public outcry and an international campaign to get such torture stopped...!
As it is, the gullible and ignorant majority continue to be manipulated, misinformed and misled by the minority of people who participate in these medieval public spectacles - exactly as was the case with the so- called 'sport' of hunting live mammals to death, with the use of dog packs, in the UK, until a few years ago!
Unfortunately for the barbarian practitioners of said 'sports', the video camera was invented, which enabled the reality of their activities to be presented, by activist opponents, before the British public and their MPs, whilst two world- renowned experts on wild mammals ( both of them University Professors, responsible for original, peer- reviewed, published research and the supervision of PhD students) stepped up, to rubbish the ludicrous claims made by hunters to excuse and justify their determined, continuing slaughter of foxes, deer, hare and otters!
Thus, the 100 year- long campaign to end hunting of live mammals with dogs was successful and the 'Hunt Act', which would abolish the 'Sport,' finally became UK Law!
So, the bulls and horses destined for death by torture, at the behest of human barbarians, need the active support of every compassionate, clear- minded human, for whom the deliberate infliction of agonising pain, fear and ritualised death, upon another living creature, would be unimaginable, incomprehensible and utterly inexcusable!-
I really do believe that there are, in educated Western societies, even now, many more opponents of cruelty to animals than perpetrators - after all, this was my own experience during my 30 years as an 'anti- hunt' activist and campaigner! Once people were shown the truth about the brutality involved, they were, firstly, appalled, then, incensed- at having been fooled by the hunters' lies! Many then became supporters of the need for a new British law, to consign such barbarism and sadism to 'the dustbin of History!'
So, the more the opposition grows, the sooner the thousands of animal victims destined for the depravity of the bull- ring, will be safe! Those humans whose ears, eyes and minds are closed to the evidence of animal torture in the bull ring, had better start researching other forms of live entertainment (not involving live creatures), and soon....!
Saludos,
GC.
). Surely the issue is making it acceptable to delight in watching an animal suffer. To enjoy watching the teasing of a wounded drugged animal that is bleeding to death.
