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'Bloodless Bullfighting' Coming to South Point Casino This September

Where: 9777 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89183
June 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM | by | Comment (1)

A storied tradition south of the border and in many countries around the world, bloodless bullfighting courtesy of Don Bull Productions will come to Las Vegas in celebration of Mexican Independence Day at the South Point Hotel & Casino on September 14.

Starting with the inaugural Fiestas Patrias at the South Point Arena, spectators will be able to watch the best bullfighters or toreros from around the globe performing some fancy footwork and quick moves as they dance around the bulls. Using specially designed adhesive Velcro pads instead of traditional banderillas, rejones and steel harpoons (we're having some trouble envisioning this ensemble), competitors are able to keep the toros, thrill and skill of traditional bullfighting intact.

On the start of Fiesta Patrias, bullfighers including Eulalio Lopez “El Zotoluco”, Alejandro Amaya and Julio Benitez “El Cordobes" are expected to appear. The next day, rejoneadors (horseback bullfighters) such as Antonio Domecq, Rui Fernandes, and Jorge Hernandez Garate will appear as well as two group exhibitions featuring Forcados de Turlock and Forcados de Mazatlan.

The festivities will return to Vegas again on September 27 for four more days of "fun" when the Grand Bullfighting Cartel comes to town. More bullfighters from Spain and Portugal are expected to show.

Tickets to Fiesta Patrias start at just $60 and can be purchased by calling (702) 797-8055 or by visiting Toro Las Vegas. VIP tables and seating are also available with pricing ranging from $375 to $550.

[Photo: Kirvin Doak Communications]

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U.S. Bullfighting: Not ART; Not CULTURE; TORTURE.

Bullfighting: It's not ART; it's not CULTURE; it's TORTURE (ask the MAJORITY of the people in the bullfighting countries of Spain; Portugal; France; Mexico; Colombia; Ecuador; Guatemala; Peru and Venezuela that are working on, and passing NATIONAL BANS and ABOLITION of bullfights).

Bullfighting: The mutilation and torture of bulls.
Bullfighting is the most indefensible type of animal abuse.

Bullfighting is not a fight at all, but a systematic torture-killing that pits a gang of armed thugs wielding razor-sharp barbed spikes, spears, swords and daggers (these weapons are designed to inflict intense pain and cause massive blood loss to weaken the animal) against a lone, terrified; confused; fatally disabled and wounded animal.

It's a SICKENING economic industry based on HORRIFYING victimization; sadistic abuse; extreme cruelty and mutilation and torture of bulls (and horses) during the cruel exhibitions of bullfights (which are barbaric "blood" fiestas).

So-called bloodless bullfights are practiced in the U.S., where the bulls are terrified; confused; teased, harassed; tormented (and injured): <a href="http://www.cas-international.org/en/news/newsitem/bladeren/11/persbericht/expose-of-the-illegality-of-the-so-called-bloodless-bullfights-in-the-usa/">http://www.cas-international.org/en/news/newsitem/bladeren/11/persbericht/expose-of-the-illegality-o f-the-so-called-bloodless-bullfights-in-the-usa/</a>?
only to be killed once outside the arena, in a Mexican bullfight; a slaughterhouse or elsewhere.

In these events bullfighters perform who torture and kill many bulls during regular bullfights: Close-up Horror of Bullfighting (Graphic) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwQ4Dmlur8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwQ4Dmlur8</a>
Although the bullfights in America are supposedly bloodless, bulls and horses are still subjected to large amounts of abuse and stress and the risk of getting wounded.

The bullfighting industry is losing ground in the bullfighting countries and that is why they are trying to export their bloody business to other countries. Since it is prohibited to torture and kill bulls in the United States, they have invented bloodless bullfights, to promote their sadistic industry in an innocent form.

However, the same industry does not have a problem with killing defenseless animals. The money they generate from the bullfights in America is used to promote their blood sport. Furthermore, people who visit the bullfights may mistakenly think that bullfighting is not that cruel, while it is one of the most cruel forms of animal abuse.

We must not allow the bullfighting industry to continue promoting their bloody business in America.
America has many great events to offer, without sadistic animal abuse and cruelty.

Bloodless bullfighting in our country of America is DISGRACEFUL and should be, and remain BANNED because it is, and always will be (in any form) a Tradition of Cruelty.

We must call for a PERMANENT BAN on all future bullfighting events planned in America and let the bullfighting industry know that America is not interested in bullfighting.

The bullfights that have already been organized in Las Vegas, Nevada were a big failure: only a few people attended the events and the bullfighting industry lost money.

This is reason enough to PERMANENTLY BAN all bullfights in the USA: people want this abuse and cruelty to STOP.

Help these suffering animals - STAY AWAY FROM BULLFIGHTS; speak out against them and DEMAND that they be ABOLISHED.

Michel Michaeljohn (of Spanish-descent): California; United States.

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