DEAR SIR
OH Jason Moore, please take off your rose tinted glasses! You say (and I am in total agreement) that you are in favour of maintaining traditions, but not those that mistreat and punish a poor animal and yet you think the correbou and the bullfight should continue.
Sadly, the whole point of the correbou is to goad, torture and eventually kill the animal involved. This is what the onlookers want and I am afraid that their bloodlust would not be sated by a bull being quietly led around the town.
With regard to the bullfight, the spectators do not want to see a confused bull standing docilely in the ring.
They need to see the perceived skill and bravery' of the matador who faces a bull that has been disabled and maddened by (amongst many things) being kept in the dark, deprived of food, applying corrosive irritants to the feet, grease into the eyes, injections to disorientate, beatings to stress and debilitate and of course the banderillos piercing the back.
They are also there to see the inevitable killing of the bull.
I am afraid that you can't have these outdated traditions without mistreating animals. So Mr. Moore - are you with us or against us?
Yours
Annie Sofiano
Porreres