SO, Salford's Frank Evans will be heading off once more to torture bulls in the killing arenas of Spain.
The 65-year-old “matador” says he is fully recovered from a triple heart bypass and an artificial knee - fit enough to return to the bull-ring.
Now I know I keep harping on about newspapers pandering to the cruel, but come on, how can anyone condone the antics of people like Evans, who get their enjoyment from inflicting terrible pain onto an animal?
In 2004, after killing a bull, Evans was quoted in the Sunday Independent as saying, “The bull was a twat, it was a coward. I just couldn't work with it.”
I mean what kind of mind is capable of causing such terror and pain to an animal and then curse it for dying too soon?
More recently Evans told the Guardian how he practices his so-called skills on young bulls on a ranch.
He also told how he was once gored up the arse (his words) by a 15-year-old cow. No doubt after torturing her for hours.
Think about it! This poor cow spends her entire life being used as a breeding machine, only to be abused by Evans.
Matadors practice in the slaughterhouse. What is not so well known, however, is that when a young bull is sent to the arena, he is weakened.
In other words tortured for a while until he loses enough blood to tire him.
Then the matador enters the ring to fight the terrified animal before finishing him off.
Unfortunately, many bulls are still conscious when they have their ears and testicles cut off.
What a contrast this man is to the beautiful and compassionate Vicki Moore, an animal activist who campaigned with great courage to bring an end to killing animals for entertainment.
It seems very unfair to me that Vicki had to die before her time, and old men are allowed to live on to inflict more barbaric cruelty onto their hapless victims.
Here was a woman who put her life in danger every time she went out to Spain to campaign against the grotesque cruelty to animals in bloody Spanish fiestas.
And it wasn't just the bloodthirsty mobs that she had to fear. The bulls being tortured to death and running for their lives were a threat too.
Mad with fear and in agony, one of these poor animals tossed Vicki into the air several times and left her seriously wounded.
A few years later she died of cancer, leaving the animal cause without its greatest champion.
Vicki's introduction to the animal movement had me in floods of tears when I read how she'd witnessed a ”fire” bull bound and being dragged screaming along the ground.
This lovely woman was the epitome of everything that is good and beautiful about mankind, and Evans’ is the epitome of everything ugly.
Salford has nothing to be proud of in Evans, the butcher of young bulls. In fact they should be damn well ashamed that this man comes from their community.
These are my views and not those of the Daily Post.
Yvonne Sadler wrote...
Bullfighting is simply sadistic, the bulls are tortured without any mercy. Some 14 million British tourists visit Spain every year and if they all boycotted bullfighting, then bullrings would have to close as they are heavily dependent on the income brought in by tourists. Only 8% of Spaniards consider themselves bullfighting fans, so bullfighting is not even mainstream Spanish 'culture'.Well done Judi for speaking up against bullfighting. I always read your blog because you speak up to bring an end to cruelty.
Posted by: Yvonne Sadler | March 23, 2008 8:37 PM