Canned "hunts"

[Cynical Ninja]

Well thelive prey in question is just chucked in there, as in thrown over a twenty foot wall not lowered gently, the animal in question is incapacitatedin the fall so there isn't much hunting required. I've watched it and it is pretty gruesome watching a full grown stag with broken legs getting ripped apart by lions. Its obviously done just to get more people with bloodlust into the zoo.

In all honesty, this doesn't bother me quite so much. It is the weak, injured, old and sick that are culled from the herd in the wild. Granted, a stag in his prime wouldn't normally be taken down in the wild, but nature is pretty gruesome in some aspects. Predators don't kill for sport; they kill to live. It isn't pretty, it normally isn't a quick kill, and it isn't done in malice. I do believe you're right though,that it is done to attract people who just want to see an animal torn to shreds. I don't mind seeing kills being made in the wild on documentaries that I watch. But just to see it because you want to see an animal ripped apart is disgusting.

I've also watched Okinawan bullfighting where the bulls fight each other to the death which was also pretty grim.

Bullfighting anywhere is repulsive, abusive and stupid. It is not a sport, it is torture made into a spectator "sport". The running of the bulls is about the most moronic thing anyone ever dreamt up. When people get killed during thisheinous displaythey deserve it. Human vs. a 1200 pound bull......the bull is going to get someone. I hope he takes out a whole shitload of them.

Dickheads that do the pampalona bull run probably don't realise that all the bulls that take place in the run are killed in the bullring that night. Whenever I see it on TV I am always routing for the bulls, poor buggers.

Of course in Spain it is also traditionto throw a poor bloody donkey from a church steeple !