Bulls on parade!

So you don't like bullfights or matadors. That is fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But before you make your opinion you should always know the facts. I admit, I've had many stupid opinions in my life but when you learn new stuff you change your opinions. Stubborn people stink! Everyone should try changing their opinions every once and in a while.

So about bulls. Did you know they have been worshipped in the Mediterranean land without a break from the earliest times. Together with the horse, bull is the animal most frequently painted by prehistoric man in the cave paintings of France. The oldest painting of bulls dates back 35 000 years. Bulls are also represented on the walls of the ritual center in one of the earliest cities yet discovered located in the Anatolia region which developed around 8 400 years ago. They were the first animals to be worshipped as gods in temples of ancient Egypt 3000 years later.

Next great civilization after Egypt around 3000 B.C was in Greek. There too bulls were worshipped. Athletes took part in rituals in which participants of both sexes vaulted over bulls by grasping their horns. After that the Romans continued the worship in the form of Mithras. The cult in which the killing of the astral bull, the tauroctony, was as central in the cult as the Crucifixion was to contemporary Christians.

Today the last relics of these cults survive in the bullfights of Spain and southern France. So bulls and our relation to them is an important part of our past. It's cruel, I'll admit that but by that logic so is killing any animal (chicken, cow, armadillo). How do you compare which is worse, killing 50 million chickens or 500 bulls a year (don't know the exact number). At least bulls are treated well until at the end. But hey, death comes and goes. Is it not more important how animals live, not how they die?