CRUELTY IN SPORT.
“ It always surprises me to hear English people decrying the bull fight as being cruel while they hunt defenceless foxes with packs of dogs, buffaloes and lions with rifles, pheasants with shot-guns, and trout with fish-hooks. . . . Any pot-bellied draper who has made a fortune can arm himself with a rifle (an invincible weapon against any animal), and go out and bag his elephant, lion, tiger, rhino, then he returns as a hero with a few paragraphs in the gossip column. . . . Lord Dash and Lady Blank can go off and wound fifty antelopes, which, escaping, die in agony after several days. As regards the alleged ‘ cruelty ’ of bull fighting, any English pheasant-hunt provides a far worse shambles than the arena.”— Mr. Roy Campbell, the poet, in his book on bull fighting, “Taurine Provence.”
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Forest and Bird, Issue 29, 1 April 1933, Page 16
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135CRUELTY IN SPORT. Forest and Bird, Issue 29, 1 April 1933, Page 16
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