Cruel sports

Cruel sports, which provide amusement for people but agonizing death for animals (and sometimes humans), include bullfighting (for example, in Spain, Portugal, France, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan); fox hunting with hounds (for example, in the UK and the USA); hare coursing (England and Ireland); turkey shoots (USA); cockfighting (Cuba, Indonesia, Japan); deer hunting on horseback accompanied by hounds (France); cricket fighting (China); and wild pig-sticking (Germany).

1. All blood sports should be banned because it is never right to make a game out of killing another living creature.

1. Country sports do involve the killing of animals, but so does eating meat and wearing leather. If it is accepted that animal farming is essential to produce food and to preserve the countryside, it must also be accepted that pests have to be controlled.

1. Unethical sporting practices
2. Torture of animals
3. Inadequate animal welfare

1. Prizefighting
2. Hunting of animals
3. Animal fighting sports

1. Killing of animals
2. Denial to animals of the right to a natural death
3. Animal injuries

1. Over-competitive sports
2. Exploitation of animals in spectator sports
3. Decadence

1. Scarification
2. Pejorative accusations of ritual use of human blood

1. Promoting cruel sports

1. Cruelty