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Don’t Cook And Eat A Lobster Onstage In Spain
….or your play could be suspended.
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2 Responses to “Don’t Cook And Eat A Lobster Onstage In Spain”
Oh puh-lease…
Killing, cooking and eating an animal in front of an audience is illegal? Mind you, I believe it, it’s just that I could swear that the restaurant business isn’t suffering much in Spain…. (trivia tidbit: there are more bars/restaurants per square kilometer in Madrid than any other city on the planet)
And how utterly hypocritical. Killing and eating an invertebrate in front of an audience is considered cruel…but torturing a full grown bull to death in front of hundreds of people is just hunky dory right? Ugh….
In defense of my nation, around 70% of Spaniards either disapprove or have exactly zero interest in bullfights. The appeal for newer, tougher, animal protection laws is in the high nineties. It’s a horrific holdover from the past, that only is still in place because of the old-money that makes sure it stays legal and subsidized.
For those not “privileged” enough to have seen or heard of what actual bullfighting consists of things go as follows. A bull is closed into a tight space, with plenty of noise and taunting to go with it. He is then released on to the arena, where the bullfighter taunts him again with the cape. Now and again, when the bull lunges at the cape, the bullfighter sticks a colorful stick on the bull. It’s got a sharp, metallic twisted end, so that it sticks to the bull and slowly bleeds him. After a while, the exhaustion and blood loss of many of these little instruments makes the bull so exhausted that he won’t respond to the taunting. The bullfighter then takes out a sword, and holds it against the defenseless, tired animal, and pierces his skull. At the finish, the bullfighter takes his “trophy”. He cuts off the ears of the bull and presents them to the crowd.
It baffles me how this country has a government that sees public lobster boiling as cruel, but has the audacity to do nothing about this “sport”.
The big question is, does letting the audience vote on the meal count?