Spanish Bull Torture Must End - Speak Out!

Every year, an estimated 250,000 bulls are violently slaughtered around the world in cruel and archaic bullfights.

Thousands of the innocent victims of this gruesome “sport” are killed in Spain, the nation most famous for this vicious, outdated pastime.

Unfortunately, American tourists are frequent attendees at Spanish bullfights, yet studies have shown that the majority of these tourists never watch another one, as most leave shocked and horrified by the unthinkable cruelty they witness in the bullring.  

The bulls who lose their lives every year in Spanish bullfights not only die cruel, violent deaths—they also suffer unthinkable torture before they are killed.

Before the bulls are sent into the ring to be slaughtered, they are subjected to a number of brutal torments designed to weaken them so they are easier to kill. These practices can include confining them in small, dark spaces where they are deprived of food and water, giving them tranquilizers and laxatives, rubbing petroleum jelly in their eyes to impair their vision, hanging heavy weights around their necks, and violently beating them.

Once these innocent, suffering animals are forced into the ring, they are met by men on horseback called picadors, whose job is to provoke the bulls into charging their horses so they can spear them in the neck or shoulders with long lances.

This part of the twisted event is also dangerous for the horses and hundreds are killed in bullfights each year.

Next, a second group of men called banderilleros enters the ring on foot. Their role is to stab the bulls in the neck with wooden darts, forcing the animals to lower their heads and making it even easier for the final act of this sick performance: the kill.

After the bulls are thoroughly weakened, bleeding, blinded, and suffering incredible pain and stress, the cowardly and sadistic bullfighters, known as matadors—which translates to "killers"—enter the ring to finish them off.

After prolonging the torment a little longer, they stab the bulls between the shoulder blades to paralyze them. Then, often while the animals are still alive, they cut off their ears and tails and declare themselves great victors for their grotesque act of cruelty.

This is not art. This is not culture. This is disgraceful, violent, sociopathic, cruelty and it must stop.    

For hundreds of years in ancient Rome, human gladiators fought each other to the death in a similar violent blood sport. Thankfully, human beings are capable of evolving and those fights to the death were eventually outlawed. Spain is failing to evolve while many other nations are getting with the times, opening their eyes to the true horrors of bullfighting, and banning this outdated and brutal activity.

Colombia, Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Italy, and the United Kingdom have all banned bullfighting. Spain should follow their lead and ban this cruel, archaic, and immoral spectacle.

Take Action Now

Please join Species Unite in urging the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to finally put an end to thousands of years of animal cruelty by banning bullfighting in Spain.