Man Gored to Death During Pamplona Bull Run (holidays, female, own)

[Hoarfrost]

Originally Posted by cuebald

If you eat meat

Nope.

[cuebald]

If you don't eat meat, that's fine also. I tried being vegetarian for a couple of years and was nearly vegan for nine months of that. I decided not to continue the experiment. One of my daughters is a vegan, one only eats seafood, my son is an omnivore.

I refuse to apologize because of what I eat, nor am I uninformed about the issue. I am on my second copy of Laurel's Kitchen and have read Upton Sinclair as well as having visited an abattoir with my uncle to deliver a load of beef cattle.

What would you do about the cruelty in the meat processing business? If you scorn bullfighting, you must certainly feel the same way about commercial butchering.

[ergohead]

We do have the technology to clone T-Bones without having to make the entire cow.

[TXboomerang]

Everytime one of these animals kills one of their tormentors, I get a little smile and feel good to know a bull won for a change.

[cuebald]

I'm in.

Where can we find petri dishes large enough?

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by TXboomerang

Everytime one of these animals kills one of their tormentors, I get a little smile and feel good to know a bull won for a change.

Tormentors? Sometimes tourists from all around the world get gored or trampled. These people aren't bull fighting, but running in front of the bulls.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by cuebald

I'm in.

Where can we find petri dishes large enough?

I am not sure I like it very much, but it would be Big Science.

But let's kill Monsanto first, anyway.

Texans and Montanans ain't a gonna like it.

And, will anyone want to keep cows as pets?

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by MovingForward

Poor thing. He was absolutely running for his life. He no doubt heard the screams and watched the murder of other animals--since slaughterhouses don't bother to slaughter humanely or isolate the animals they slaughter: all the animals get to watch the slaughter as they wait in line. I cannot even imagine the terror he must have experienced. Thank god they will not be sending him back to hell.

Uh . . Yes, I'm really starting to relate to his plight.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Tormentors? Sometimes tourists from all around the world get gored or trampled. These people aren't bull fighting, but running in front of the bulls.

Yeah, I've seen deer run in front of cars, must be the same thing.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by ergohead

How do they gather them up?

In NYC, they would just keep running.

I don't really know, but I imagine that it's done just like in the US, and then trucked to a central point in the city. The bulls are let lose in the very narrow streets of Pamplona, and a lot of other streets and areas are blocked. The bulls run through a planned and controlled route, not on all the streets.

One has to be in good shape to run fast, and most often to jump up and grab a window ledge or something in order to lift oneself out of the way if one can't outrun the bulls.