Ricky Gervais on Animal Rights
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Comedian Ricky Gervais on the cruelty of bullfighting.
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RICKY GERVAIS
Ricky Gervais is an English comedian, author, actor, director, producer, screenwriter and former pop musician. He achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has also appeared in several Hollywood films, including For Your Consideration, Stardust, Night at the Museum and Ghost Town.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: Are you a radical?
Gervais: Yeah, yeah. It’s a tough one. And, of course, you know, there’s a big difference between saving someone’s life and just getting… getting the right mascara. Of course, there’s no doubt about that. There’s a big difference. But… I mean, it’s more fundamental in that. There’re still… There’re still blood spots in the world. Bull fighting… Really? Really? You want to see an animal [stab] to death for your pleasure? You really… You really get off on that, do you? I cheer when a [terrier dog] gets gored to death. I love it. You [should’ve gone] in there, you know. It’s not a fair fight. People shooting for pleasure. There’re people wearing fur of endangered… I don’t know what to do with them. I don’t know what to fucking do with them. Just think, why you’re doing it? Why’d you need that? Crazy. It’s just crazy. I say, I’m going to crack a few heads. But anyway…
Animal cruelty needs to be talked about in the news more
LOVE this guy for using his platform for helping animals all around the world. That is a clear sign of a good human beeing to me!
Isn't it hypocritical for a celebrity to use his platform to tell people how to live and what to eat and then turn around and say celebrities shouldn't use their platform to tell people how to vote?
It is VERY simple. Treat all creatures the way you want to be treated. As for the comments below, Rick isn't claiming that his way is perfect or better than yours. Ricky is trying to open up minds and spread the word. He's not perfect and can do better, so can we all.
No if I want to eat a fuckin chicken I eat it .
Nothing should have right to live nor comfort
@@antonikudlicki1100 I agree
I guess you forgot what animals can do to other animals
I like to eat meat. Sorry, but I will defend with my life my right to eat meat
it's not between saving humans and saving animals, Big Think (to Ricky Gervais). animal testing is not effective and is actually incredibly dangerous for and harmful to humans. i have a whole video series about this. it's great that Ricky speaks out about certain animal issues but picking and choosing is not a logic-based stance. either all animals deserve protection or none. the divisions are arbitrary.
true that
There is right and wrong in everything if you didn't pick and chose you couldn't change.
Bite size vegan. The most intelligent remark yet.by an anti taurino. Either - all or none. The divisions.are arbitrary
If " bullfights" are wrong then slaughter fot food is wrong too. It unfair to raise animals for food. It is far more ethical and moral to kill an animal by hunting it. But since the corrida serves a different purpose and eating meat is less healthful than a cleanet diet then there is more justification for the corrida since it serves a higher purpose. This is not easily understood by all due in part to ethnocentrism. Unless one is open to a tragic understanding of life the corrida can be mistaken for some sport or spectacle. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. The people who watch or attend corridas are not psycopaths or wrong but are more sensitive esthetically.
There should be no jail sentence for animal cruelty. It should be on an 'eye-for-an-eye' punishment. Whatever you do to the animal, you have it done to you, then we'll see how quickly animal cruelty stops
jimmy bluebos You sir have made a statement that is the based in the "revenge mentality" that is so proliflic among countries with Abrahamic religious backgrounds. It is this type of thinking that has cause so many countries to have the "Death sentence" and torture which has so many times been proven to have been misused and subjected upon people who were minorities, innocent and did not deserve it. This type of mentality also targets minorities and those who cannot defend themselves from the law (the mob mentality). Wait till you are falsely accused of rape (as it happens so much in many countries) and then see how eager you are for the same type of justice you advocate for in animals to be applied to you in prison. You cannot take back harm so why stoop to the level of those who cannot "understand" how it is wrong.
Hau5ratz I was being slightly flippant in my comment. My point was that there is a lot of unnecessary animal cruelty that the threat of 'eye for an eye' would deter it straight off the bat
+jimmy bluebos Flippancy is dangerous and threats are only as good as your willingness to back it up, in which case my point remains the same. Rehabilitation, not revenge my friend.
Not sure how a flippant comment on YT is dangerous. What punishment would you give to someone who abuses an animal?
jimmy bluebos Children and Animals abusers so get slap on the hand. "Dont do that again..pay the fine, go on your merry way" Enough is a enough
I also love it! when a bullfighter gets gored, it's the payment for causing so much misery.
I think anyone who claims to be an "Animal Lover" and attacks Ricky when he speaks against animal cruelty, is a hypocrite.
***** if what you say were true(and it's not), then guess almost absolute majority of vegans would have been pure hypocrites because unless they were born vegan, at some point in life they were eating meat and other animal products. But if they didn't have compassion towards animals in the first place, they wouldn't become vegan in future.
Ricky Gervais is compassionate enough to speak out against certain aspects of animal cruelty. That puts him ahead of the majority of people who don't give a fuck, and also, in some cases, ahead of some pretensive "animal lovers" who would rather have Gervais not to speak out against animal cruelty at all because it bruises their ego regarding the monopoly on the term.
There are so many people who wouldn't even consider any form of compassion towards animals. Actually, that's probably majority. They would argue against it, and will be angry and think one is trying to take away their rights if one speaks about animal rights. Others, and there are lots of them too, would outright enjoy animal suffering and distress it causes for others. Sometimes I wonder in which planet do most vegans live, are they really that delusional to not understand majority. If you see one has sympathy for animal rights issues, don't think it's normal, it's more of an exception.
People arent complaining that hes trying to stop animal cruelty, they're complaining that hes a massive hypocrite
If I was working for and campaigning for anti-racism, I would not want or think it appropriate that a racist thought they could be on "my" side. This is exactly what happens when non-vegans campaign for animal rights. You've got animal exploiters campaigning for the rights of animals. That's crazy.
Mr Gervais - top guy
I feel the same about meat, dairy and egg eaters. If you want to lecture others about animal rights being vegan is the one thing you need to do. It's easy and quite frankly I don't understand why he hasn't figured it out yet.
This man always talks sense,he loves animals and stands against testing,cruelty,hunting,fur,you name it.I love this man and derek is genious.
Stands against everything apart from eating meat, 98% of animal abuse happens in meat industrys
He does not eat meat so maybe do some research before posting He is vegetarian.
@@blossiesmom2265 still eats animal products that are just as horrible, if you eat dairy you are supporting the dairy industry, which is exactly the same industrie as beef, people like you and ricky don't understand that eating dairy and eggs is just as bad as eating meat, maybe you could do some research
@@Oliver_B_r_n ok I have done my research Oliver I know all about the dairy industry thank you and animal testing which is abhorrent.But people have the right to choose.They can be vegan veggie or whatever the hell they like.
@@blossiesmom2265 yes but people have the right to choose anything, if I choose to go beat someone up, it would be my choice would it not. And you seem to be getting mad, when all I'm doing is pointing out the hypocrisy of people who claim to be against animal suffering yet still participate in animal suffering, that's all it is.
Ricky Gervais is a great man.
Not great enough to go vegan for the animals he claims to care so much about, apparently.
David Lingdell he is vegan
David Lingdell even if someone isn't vegan they may not be aware of the cruelty in animal products
Bary12345. Ricky gervais is a jer
Ricky I applaud you and speaking up. I really do :) xx
It's not a fair fight against a bull? True. It's cruel. But, you know what's even less of a fair fight, the one of a pig hanging upside down in a slaughter house having his throat slit. Please Ricky, go vegan, it is the only way you can stand up for animal rights with a clear and consistent message. All animal lives matter ❤️️
I don't know if you've been keeping up with Ricky, but he did confirm that he's vegan a couple of months ago. So props to him!
@shrodingerscat8909now...
I LOVE Ricky Gervais !!!!
I couldn't agree more with you Ricky.
How people can do cruel things
To animals I just cannot understand. It's nothing short of
Evil and barbaric.
maryanne may He supports it himself though.
I love Ricky Gervais♡♡♡
His a good soul in the right place & the thing is you know he says it because he believes it and cares about animals. NOT JUST COZ OF GOOD PUBLICITY ❤
0:51 so do i, you're a legend, ricky!👍
I wish that more celebrities would do this.
When Ricky says `Why are you doing that, what are you thinking. I want to crack a few heads'. I feel like that about all animal use by humans. We have no need to eat, wear or experiment on animals or use them in entertainment such as zoos. They are not here for us but with us.
BigThink invitation suggestion: Gary L. Francione. I deem him to be one of the most eloquent animal advocates of our time. Perhaps the communities he has online are toxic, but his books and essays are just pure gold. Unlike R. Gervais' , who doesn't seem to really understand animal rights because he's not practicing it (not a vegan but engages in misogynistic campaigns against other nonvegans).
I remember seeing this awful documentary about fur years ago, seeing a fox lifted up by it's hind legs and swung down on a wall over and over until it was dead. Now seeing anyone with fur of any kind brings my blood to a boil instantly.
Hit the nail on the head, Ricky simply says it with plain common sense.
This guy is a total badass ! And i support animal rights fully ! Anyone who doesn't truly has no soul .
I love you Ricky, I am with you on this
Thanks Ricky. Say it as it is. Bravo
Go vegan Ricky, the food is delish and its better for the animals, your health and the environment... THINK
False
@@robertosharplesshecht7805 how so?
I love Ricky and I agree with a lot of stuff he says but to me there is no better example for the word hypocrite than someone lecturing animal rights and cruelty while eating a bacon sandwich....I'm pretty sure killing an animal is animal cruelty...
But he ain't no vegetarian.
And that's just so ridiculous to me...
It's like a man back in the 1800s speaking to an audience of people about how wrong it is to treat a man like an inferior work object then rides his carriage home and asks his House slave to make him some soup and clean his clothes.
I'm not saying he shouldn't speak on animal rights, I'm just saying he's a complete hypocrite, and same goes for any of you meat eaters watching this in some kind of understanding pitiful way.
If you are a true fighter for animal rights surely you don't condone the killing of another life form capable of feeling pain and suffering. And so you should really consider not participating in the trade that's soul purpose is the killing of animals.
+Daniel Dakin You're the kind of people that piss me off. I am a massive supporter of animal rights and have written several essays for school about it. I eat meat. Obviously that therefore makes me a hypocrite, right? Wrong, I eat meat I get from a local butcher that I know for a fact has raised his animals in an open environment and has lived a happy life, it was killed in the most humane way possible. Have you ever seen the way a crocodile kills its prey, or a lion. I can tell you that is way worse than some ways humans kill animals. Eating meat does not make me a hypocrite, I eat meat due to my belief that it's necessary to my diet, if my dog can eat meat, why can't I?
Rachel McEwan There's no such thing as humane meat, there is no grey areas when killing an animal incapable of expressing an opinion.
Who the fuck are you to say an animal was happy before cutting its head off and sticking it into a stockpot for your selfish so called needs???
Your comparing us to a lion and a crocodile, two wild predators incapable of feeling empathy. We are omnivores, omnivores with empathy, all protein found in meat can be found in nuts and many vegetables, that's not a matter of debate and i don't care about your belief, its a FACT. And so are dogs!
But to answer your question, You can eat meat like your omnivore dog! you can keep trying to justify your ideals for your own selfish greed by pretending its okay to kill an animal that feels pain and suffering, you can keep trying to justify your morality with your so called needs that are simply not needed in a civilized society, all i can do is tell you my opinion on why i think its simply unnecessary and (immoral) to condone killing another creature for unnecessary human consumption.
I ate meat all my life until about 6 months ago, at first i tried to justify it, but i removed my ego/ ideals and i questioned my morality, nothing summed up correctly to me, i couldn't find anything right with it, it just didn't seem fair, then i looked at the facts and realized simply...
if i wouldn't kill another living creature why would i condone killing one at all never mind killing one for my own selfish wants.
but that's just me.
+Rachel McEwan Nah mate, you're a hypocrite. You just can't acknowledge it because you're also an idiot.
+Rachel McEwan "If my dog can eat meat, why can't I?"
Are you really so simple that you actually want that question answered?
See this is what annoys me. People cant seem to understand there is a huge difference between killing an animal and eating it, like humans have done since the beginning, and all carnivorous species do....and maiming and torturing an animal 'because they can'/for 'fun'. The first is not abuse. The second is. A person can be against animal cruelty and eat meat. Its ludacris to think otherwsie. If you cant see the difference between setting a puppy on fire 'as a joke' and shooting a cow which you then eat for nourishment....well....there's something wrong.
smart man! love him
exactly how I feel on this issue! it's mind boggling and I myself am at a loss of words on how sick and senseless people are!
Well done Ricky. We need more celebs like you that are known for their grey matter
bottoms up! i love big game
This made me cry
Thank you Ricky Gervais for making a stand against animal cruelty.
love you Ricky!
Your a legend.
There is a world of difference between eating meat, and torturing and killing animals for entertainment. That is the message. Perhaps it is lost on some people. Being a Vegan is a modern lifestyle choice.
Finally someone who understands the point here. Eating meat is not evil. If you choose to be vegetarian or vegan then that's a choice others should respect. I eat meat but I'm carefull to know where it came from and if it was treated humainly and slaughtered humainly. Personally I agree with Ricky and love seeing a barbaric matador being gored to death by a bull because the bull did not want to be there. Put simply we are meat eaters and animals on this planet like all others. Unlike all other species however we kill other animals for pleasure or entertainment which is bull shit. Done.
Richard Lewis I'm vegetarian, but I'm not one of those vegetarians that has a vendetta for all meat-eaters, but I did want to put one point to you - in reference to your reasoning for hating bull fighting being "because they did not want to be there" - have you ever watched slaughterhouse videos, at all? I know you say you make sure the meat you eat is humanely killed, but believe me, a lot of animals, especially the ones killed in the likes of the UK and the US, are much more intelligent than we give them credit for - one animal sees another die and they know the same is coming to them, and they too do not want to be there. Not a lecture or anything like that, just something to think about in regards to consistency.
There IS no difference. We DON'T need meat or animal products to live optimally healthy lives. We eat meat and animal products for one reason alone: taste. This makes it no different than dog fighting or trophy hunting.
Go vegan, today. It's the only rational response if you agree that animals matter morally.
www.howdoigovegan.com
Hypcrite...cares about animals...except for those who are most ruthlessly victimized and in the greatest numbers - those animals that most people call "food".
I guarantee he hasn't seen earthlings and the full extent of the torture animals in the meat industry go through.
Good on u Ricky
Bull fights - in Spain - YES and bring it to UK
You eat animals Ricky and dairy as far as I know. It's not difficult to find the facts on the deranged cruelty involved in those industries. So, in your words 'just think, why are you doing it, why do you need it'? The answer is that you don't need it, in fact you are dramatically better off without it. So just think Ricky, just think mate.
TimidsFlicks "Facts". Oh how lost you are.
It doesn't matter HOW we treat and kill the animals, what matters is THAT we use them and kill them. We've got NO reason to use animals for our trivial purposes in this day and age. We don't need animal products of any sort to be optimally healthy. Therefore, it's our moral obligation to go vegan and stop using animals for food, clothing, entertainment and because it's convenient.
backup your claims and go vegan Ricky, it will add that much more substance to your cause
Maybe. But killing for food and killing for pleasure or fashion is very different.
+Simon Kendra the use of animals and their byproducts for anything in our modern society where we have access to supermarkets and synthetic textiles is just unnecessary, at this point it's just a confort zone issue
It's not. And nothing is black and white. If we ate no animals, only plants, do you know how many forests would be deforested and turned into fields? Doesn't it occur to you that it's not as simple as you think? Anyway, I might agree with you or not, it doesn't matter, you cannot compare meat to coats and purses out of fur or skin or bull fighting.
+Simon Kendra the meat industry is the number one cause of deforestation in the Amazon for grazing cattle and uses the most resources like water 1,847 gallons per 1 pound of beef and uses more fuel than our whole transportation system combined, these are just the facts I don't know what your point is. Can you elaborate and back it up with facts?
+MadeManⓋ and by the way the fields you talk about are used for feed for farm animals
I 100000% agree with Ricky.
Thanks for speaking out against animal cruelty Ricky 😍
well said ricky
its not a fair fight with a bull , the bulls horns are cut so the horns cant touch the ground with them or if they do they get a lot of pain
its no wonder the world is the way it is if we have so many silly people like you in it. Your so brave on your key board. If you have no compassion for animals what type of sad thing are you.
#AnimalRights activists know the true ANimalLovers #Ricky We See You
Catalan Parliament voted to forbid bullfighting. So we have closed down all bullfighting rings. As a reaction, Spanish Parliament voted for bullfighting to become of cultural interest. So part of our taxes go into grants to support bullfighting. They could not bring bullfighting back to Catalonia, so far. A Catalan law also forbids killing pets, so our region has become the greatest supporter of animal wellbeing. We have the largest reservoir of free horses, for example and the largest voluntary animal friends population. Support our independence, help us to become free from the oppressing Spanish kingdom.
I love how Ricky has the balls to actually say this. I wish more people were brutally honest with these issues so that people actually listened. People may be shocked at first but it's better than not being heard at all.
Nice.
Ricky should try to go vegan to avoid the accuses of hypocrisy(or at least vegetarian - I hear that he is not even vegetarian). He has lots of money so for him it is really easy to buy rich and tasty nutrient foods and really thrive on a plant based diet. not saying that people with little money will not make it fine... but when you have lots of money you can buy stuff like chlorella or spirulina, goji etc really easy to be vegan then imho.
Andrei Vladimir or maybe he likes meat because it tastes good
Vegetarianism has got NOTHING to do with veganism. Cows in the dairy industry are kept alive longer, suffer every bit as much and all get sent to the same slaughterhouse anyway. Male chickens get ground up alive directly after their birth.
You're either vegan, or you're directly participating in animal exploitation. There ain't no third option.
Well, defending taste is not an ethical approach. Further to that, with the right amount of money it is much easier to replicate the taste of meat.
He is vegan
@@guyziecrue Really, since when? Source?
Makes a lotta sense
We are also animals. Thank you Mr. Gervais
I never knew the bulls get stabbed Jesus 😰😰
When someone has murder in their heart they are murderers in their minds and hearts.
No, I'm actually concerned. I want to know why I should believe them instead of someone else. I'm saying that there are a lot of people saying that PETA hurts more than it helps, and as a moral vegetarian, I'm concerned.
Compare this response to the ones of Brad Stine... Both comedians, and yet light years of distance on their levels.
Totally agree,but how can ordinary folk do something to hightlight this problem.,especially the fake videos
I just wanna kiss this man.
Then why don't you #govegan Ricky? just THINK
Yup.
The "go vegan" comments... amongst the facts that cows are uncomfortable if not milked and eggs used for food aren't fertilised and would never have become chickens, when did being vegetarian stop being considered respectable?
Nat Jay Please research milk and egg mass production. We're certainly NOT doing those animals any favors.
***** Yeah... for meat.
***** And what happens with those animals once killed?
When vegans became annoying extremists and insisted their diet is the optimal diet, despite no evidence to back this up at all.
Speaker Of Truth A vegan diet IS the optimal diet, if you care about other living beings. Health benefits and whatnot are secondary and depend on a variety of factors.
true
There is only one place in Spain where bullfighting is forbidden: Catalonia. Start understanding why we do not want to be Spanish.
People who do this to animals should have the same thing do to them
Animals can be omnivores.
god gave u the capacity to take care and look after the earth and everything on it, its about time we cut the bullshit and made that the entire priority of our civilization
The people who are pointing to the fact that he eats meat, in a cheap attempt to frame him as a hypocrite, either didn't watch the video or don't have the capacity to understand the simple point he's making. He made a distinction between justifiable killings of animals and unnecessary and sadistic killings of animals. Bull fighting fits into the latter, in case you need clarification.
+yute66 Taking a calf away from its mother and slaughtering it so we can have milk and dairy products is not justifiable. We do not need to eat animals or animal products to survive so it is cruel to do so. We are healthier and it is more environmentally friendly to consume a plant-based diet and not eat animals or their products. I think Ricky Gervais is a smart man and I often find him funny but if you love animals and respect them you do not eat them. Bull fighting is unnecessary and sadistic... just like eating animals is.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) - A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
100% agree with your points, I am actually a vegetarian for all the reasons you listed. I had also never came across that Tolstoy quote, and it's a great one.
My comments were in direct reference to the distinction between bull fighting and animal farming. Again, I agree thoroughly with every point you raised but there is something to be said psychologically about people who derive excitement from the torture of an animal. Eating a steak may give a person pleasure of his appetite, but cheering on the violent abuse of an animal seems like a pleasure of his sadism.
When a person eats a steak, he is not deriving pleasure from it merely _because_ the animal suffered. The suffering of that animal was an unfortunate cause in order for him to eat that steak-- a suffering that sadly many people overlook. Bull fighting, on the other hand, is an institution which positively clamours on an animal's torture.
+yute66 Actually I disagree with you, I think people enjoying watching a bullfight and someone eating meat/animal products are thinking along the same lines i.e not about the animals. I think the majority of people who watch bullfights aren't getting off on the bull suffering (though I'm sure some are) but rather the skill and showmanship of the matador. While I am completely against bullfighting, it horrifies me, matadors are skilled, elaborately dressed performers and people are impressed and reassured that a man can face and kill a bull. Obviously the fact that the bull is drugged, partially blinded, tortured then killed is why many other people aren't impressed with bullfighting but I don't think that the people watching have acknowledged that it is torture. When someone is eating a steak or watching a bullfight the problem is they are thinking exclusively about their personal enjoyment in the moment and not the immense suffering that the animal has to go through. The meat, dairy and egg industry hides the horrific scale of pain and death that go into the 'food' people buy so people don't have to see or think about it when they buy neatly packaged meat or 'happy' chicken eggs in a supermarket. Bullfighting dresses it up, glamourises and ritualises it to such a degree that a lot of people don't see it as person slowly and painfully killing an abused innocent animal for amusement but a hero fighting a beast.
Fair, but a spectator of a bull fighting event couldn't possibly disassociate the bull's apparently obvious suffering with the pleasure they derive from said event. Think of a world where people could eat 100% accurately made simulated meat without the use of animals. Ethical people would prefer that world than the one which involves the slaughter and mistreatment of animals, yet a fan of bull fighting couldn't possibly derive as much pleasure from bull fighting _knowing_ that the bull is not a real one. While celebrating the matador, and perhaps even more so the traditional significance of bull fighting, the abuse and real suffering of the animal is inseparable to the institution of bull fighting as a whole. Eating meat does not necessarily have this relation, but you make good points-- perhaps there are some fans who have somehow managed to turn off the conscious relevance of the bull entirely. I just don't think that's the overall reality, though.
yute66 People dissociate the meat on their plate from the animal that died so they could eat it every second so its easy to imagine bullfight spectators doing the same with the bulls pain. The abuse and real suffering of animals is inseparable from the institution of meat, dairy and eggs but the customers who fund it just don't fully admit it. Eating meat absolutely has a direct relation to unnecessary cruelty and death, you can't buy lab grown meat in your local supermarket yet. Actually I think today a man fighting and beating a machine designed to fight off predators would attract just as large a crowd if not larger. Both meat eating and bullfighting are a direct result of failing to recognise the validity of a sentient beings suffering and that other animals have the same capacity for feeling pain as us.
It does
i do the same i cheer for the bulls at rodeo's come unglued when matador's are gord i am on the animals side all the time...they have no choice to b involved so of course i will route for them and i have no remorse or feel any sympathy for the humans involved they made a choice
EpiDemic117 you are trying to use petty word choice to take away from the fact that someone has a meaningful point. Need i say more?
lets just say your and idiot...Humans have a choice animals have none they are at the mercy or humans and if if humans get hurt in the pursuit of blood sports then looks good on them ...as i said before i rout for the underdog the one with no voice they usually die or get killed in the end so if they can take a piece of there abuser I will cheer them on Now you bleeding heart for the human race maybe you should do a few more searches and see just what monsters we humans can be
EpiDemic117 good name there is far to many looser's that think you!! So i guess we could call you and them an Epidemic So your name speaks volumes about your compassion for lesser species that have no voice. Your mother is ashamed of you i'm sure
My Mom is dead
EpiDemic117
You are a terribly ignorant and uninformed person.
So you're saying all the statistics are fake?
wait till he finds out where steaks come from
Ricky what about the ones that die for your taste buds
Delicious
well said .. u can still eat meat and love animals it how u respect them and treat them well be for they are killed Evan tho I don't eat meat
hunting is okay, it's fair, farming is the problem because it isn't
Yes, bullfighting is disgusting. I want to see them try to fight a lion or something, that would be more entertaining 90% of the time.
There is enough synthetically produced insulin to go around for every Diabetic, don't you worry about that. It's just that porcine insulin is cheaper so the healthcare industry decide to offer it first. There is NO REASON, OR NEED, TO USE ANIMAL PRODUCTS. EVER.
no respect for life no matter what excuse they use
They kill them if they can't find a home for them, look it up.
If it saves human lives then their is
urhhhhh i hate it when people say go vegan then. You dont have to be vegan to be a good person to animals.
actually you have to. or else you are a hypocrite.
i tell u what to do with these so called humans OFF with their heads,better yet let them too endure the same treatment.The crimes are horrific towards animals.
As a civilized society, it is our moral obligation to prevent needless cruelty to animals,the question is how civilized are we..?..NOT.
Leviticus said not to touch unclean animals.Are eat them.
And he's not even Vegan... what a hypocrite.
S Gurney You don't need to go vegan. Actually veganism is dangerous for some people. I couldn't agree more with its goal, but it needs one step to the side. Just one.
You don't have to be vegan to be against animal suffering. Eating meat seems more natural than wearing dead animals for a trend or torturing an animal for makeup or seeing what a really chemical does..obviously kills.
S Gurney He doesn't believe it. He laughs when animals are abused.
***** What a stupid response.
444Centaur I've seen comments of his, very disturbing, doesn't really care about animals much.
Shocking, isn't it Ricky? And do you that there are still people who eat meat, fish, eggs and dairy in spite of the cruelty that you would agree degrades us as humans? Oh, sorry, I forgot. I believe you're one of them.
He himself eats meat , isnt it? Meat industry is nowhere as cruel as Bullfighting or Hunting.
Mumbo k .The opposite is true. Hunting is noble and fair to the animal that has a chance to.survive."bullfighting" is grossly and the most misunderstood thing i know of followed by the.2nd amendment and motorcycling. It.is.not about enjoying watching an animal suffering but tbe.beauty of the performance of the dtama.
I love animals. I don't donate to any welfare though.
I rage quit. Successful troll ^
Surely this means he's vegan?
triador ?
GO VEGAN
Eating animals is for pleasure :) just as bad as bull fighting
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if you care about animals you shouldnt even buy a dog or some kind of domestic animal
Because they love the violence they get pleasure watching animals suffer
you really don't get it, don't you?
well that was a pointless response confused and totally off topic
What better be pimitive or hypocritical.Are you vegetarian Ricky?
Lot of angry vegans here.
When's he going vegan then
stevolution666 shut up
Austin Kesler umm. No.
You should because he isn't and probably isn't going to
Austin Kesler well I won't
Austin Kesler can you see how it would make sense if he's against cruelty to animals