“I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.” BelieveDoeHappensSufferingCultureViewsElementsTraditionRootsDon't BelieveDenyConnectedRingsCrueltyJustifiedCataloniaDeep RootsBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
“Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoeStatesSportsUnitedUnited StatesWrittenExampleElementsTraditionConservativeMexicoBowlsUnfairContestsSpainSuper BowlBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
