It sounds as though he's condemning the entertaining of our taste buds with unnecessary and unhealthy foods as wrong, which I do not disagree with, but doesn't that suggest that the unnecessary entertainment of our eyes resulting in suffering and death of an animal is also wrong?

Fiske - Harrison is a fraud. His 'research' is an ego trip - a transparently veiled sanctimonous attempt to justify his sado - erotic fascination with the torture and death of captive animals. Don't give this airheaded spoilt pervert the attention he craves.

This piece of news is politically biased. Take into account that thousands and thousands of people signed for the abolition of bullfighting because they think its inconsistent with their ethics. We should respect them.
On the other hand, how can we censure what the markets are doing to us if we do the same to animals.

Death comes to everything, and it will happen in an unknown even in if predictable manner. So, death must be consistently meditated on, in all forms possible. Fiske makes a very strong point that we are not killing bulls for entertainment, that bullfighting is not a sport, that the action of it puts us in another space of contemplation, of life, of meditation and of direct human to animal contact that so many in our "modern" world barely notice, but yearn so much more for beyond the pet like status. Yet, we do voraciously EAT for entertainment.

We as "modern" western and so often authoritarian humans are looking to explain and answer it all, with logic, with a constant question of things. Yet, we continue to prove to our very own instincts that we are not feeling life as much as out ancestors did, perhaps merely 100 years ago. They too suffered the ill of modern society excluding us ever more quickly from the natural world.

In bullfighting you cannot escape the natural world or your feelings. They are their before your very self in a pure and raw format. You can surely walk away from them, deny it, and you will once again be so far from yourself, that the modern world will only continue to be a placebo to your malady.

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I am 41, and from Kentucky in the USA. I was a country boy, but I was never involved in the Rodeo. I live and work in Latin America, and am married to a Latina, but we have no connection to bull fighting what so ever. I do eat meat, and I have seen how the animals are killed in a slaughter house. "We", humans, have institutionalized the eating of cows. As such, is it a moral issue if "we" make a sport of how the animal is killed? It is ridiculous for me to say "if I were a bull, I would prefer such and such", but giving the animal the opportunity to kill a human, however stacked the odds, puts the situation in perspective. It highlights the costs involved; that this situation involves bloody death. "Modern" people need to have a better connection between the plastic wrapped meat in the supermarket and the process of how that meat got there. I don't see any contradiction between bull fighting and modernity (I am sort of a Neo-savage). If "We" are to continue to eat animals, the communication of the connection between eating meat and the cost should be expanded beyond what can be done by bull fighting.

Life is a continuous bullfight.

Marriage is quite a longterm bullfight!

I would not be able to fight any bull; my daily arguments and fights with my spouse are tiresome enough.