Bull Fighting in Kakamega

Watu wanyama, I can scarcely believe my eyes.
Yes. The bull fighting scene has reached Kenya.
It seems hard to believe that in this so-called civilised age, a most vicious and cruel spectacle of blood continues to flourish, bull fighting should have been banned long ago.It seems hard to believe that in this so-called civilised age, a most vicious and cruel spectacle of blood continues to flourish- unlike "traditional" bull figthing such as in Spain where it is a "man vs. beast" ideaology, in western Kenya it is "beast vs. beast"

Bull fighting was described on KenyaBuzz.com as

"a sight like no other. it brings the entertainment to the local and tourists as trained bulls are encouraged to engage in an exciting combat (lock horns literally). This traditional spectacle is offered from the "Idakho" and "Isukha" Luhya tribes highlighting there culture as loud allulations from the crowd of opposing villages who are dressed in cultural attires goes on. alongside this bull fights are the Isukuti dance and songs, blowing whistles and horns to cheer up the participating Bull. fights last about 30 minutes."



How callous of them to describe the chanting as "to cheer up" the bull. Drving an animal to deranged anger and then thrusting it into a ring to fight to the death for absuolutely no reason is not exciting or entertaining. It is barbaric, it is inhumane. It needs to be stopped.

 

So, how will we stop it? By exposing the facts.

Contrary to popular belief, bulls are not naturally agressive animals. This suggests that before the fight, something was dont to the bulls to make them so angry- and certainly not something pleasant. Having not witnessed the bull fighting in Kakamega myself, I cannot be too sure as to what this is, but drawing from my knowledge of general bullfighting here are some things that are usually done to bulls to get them heated up for the fight:

"The bull has wet newspapers stuffed into his ears; vaseline is rubbed into his eyes to blur his vision; cotton is stuffed up his nostrils to cut off his respiration and a needle is stuck into his genitals"

It seems hard to believe that bulls are inncoent, but they are, inncoent and confused when they are thrust into a ring with rallying mobs that do nothing but confuse them further.

We cannot let this most cruel form of "entertanment" continue. We must do what we can to stop it.

If you want to get involved and help me stop bullfighting in Kakamega, e-mail me on smilealoud@yahoo.com