1. World problems
  2. Cruel sports

Cruel sports

  • Blood sports
  • Barbaric games

Incidence

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).

Claim

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

Counter-claim

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.

Broader

Narrower

Aggravates

Animal injuries
Presentable

Aggravated by

Decadence
Presentable

Related

Scarification
Presentable

Strategy

Value

Cruelty
Yet to rate

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Subject
  • Recreation » Animal sports » Animal sports
  • Recreation » Sport
  • Societal problems » Maltreatment
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020