>>518818687 (OP)
Bullfighting is beautiful. Pablo Picasso loved it, Pablo Neruda loved it, and if these great artists say it's art, then it is art. In fact, I believe César Vallejo, one of the greatest poets, wrote something like, "The art of dancing between life and death can summarize all the other arts of humanity," when referring to bullfighting.
But now let's think rationally: Is it really cruel? I don't think so.
Think about the life of a generic beef bull: They are often raised in intensive feedlot systems with restricted movement to maximize growth. They eat a diet based on concentrates to fatten quickly. They are barely allowed to move and are always confined to gain as much fat as possible. Finally, after living just six months—sometimes less—they are slaughtered and packaged for you to eat.
On the other hand, the Fighting Bull (Toro Bravo): It enjoys semi-freedom, lives in herds, and develops its social and territorial habits. It's raised on large tracts of land—from 1 to 6 hectares per head. It's fed the highest quality food to develop muscle. Hell, it basically lives better than me! It's cared for like a king! And it has at least four or even six years of good life until it has to fight once, only once... because you never fight the same animal twice.
And most importantly, if the animal is brave (indultado), the crowd can cheer it. Then it's forgiven and taken with a harem of females to be a breeding stallion!
People, do you really think bullfighting is cruel? Not at all! It is, in fact, the only way an animal can have anything resembling a life of luxury! And the day they ban it from the world, the species will also go extinct, because that fighting bull isn't used for regular food and is expensive to maintain, so no one will want to raise it.