Twelve-Year-Old Killer of Seven

Published by PETA Staff.
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Given the escalating violence among young people, it’s impossible to understand how anyone can cheer for 12-year-old bullfighter Michel Lagravere, who boasts that he has stabbed seven bulls to death. It’s also disturbing that people continue to egg the young man on even after he was recently tossed around by a bull in a Mexican bullfight:

 

 

The misguided child walked away with only minor injuries, but that bull’s days are still numbered. Bulls don’t stand a chance in the arena—especially not when even a 12-year-old is permitted to torture them to death.

Did you know that bulls are physically harmed and provoked before they are let into the arena? They are beaten and sometimes have their horns shaved. Then, surrounded by the screaming crowd, the confused bulls will naturally fight for their lives as men on horses run them in circles and stab them with knives until the animals are dizzy and weakened from blood loss. Finally, the matador comes in for the killing stab when the exhausted bull is already near death.

Please contact Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán to politely voice your objection to bullfighting and to tell him that you won’t be vacationing in Mexico until bullfights are banned for good.

Written by Jennifer O’Connor

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