I love it when the bull wins

[NowhereMan]

I foresee vat grown meat starting off as an inferior product that costs a fuck load and will probably be only consumed by fairly liberal vegetarians. As the techniques and technology improve it'll start to become more widely available and cost far less in resources. Considering how much energy gets wasted by animals in terms of doing things other than growing meat and that doesn't get absorbed I could see vat grown meat requiring less resources eventually.

[Sky]

Why are you fucking hippies so in love with ingestion? Vat meat? How short-sighted (and gross).

How about dermal chlorophyll, ffs?

[bhodi]

I dream of having a steak tree in my backyard.  

The best part: The heat from the unnaturally fast growing plant cooks the meat, so it's ready to eat!

[Sir T]

Once again, the Bull wins. And this time it was personal

Bull jumps from ring into crowded stands during bullfight in northern Spain
A bull leapt out of the bullring and into a crowd of spectators during a bullfight in northern Spain injuring more than 40 people.
 
By Fiona Govan, Madrid
Published: 1:15PM BST 19 Aug 2010

Dramatic images broadcast on Spanish television show the moment the bull, a half tonne black beast from the Ana Corera de Larraga ranch, hurdled the barrier surrounding the arena in Tafalla, near Pamplona in the Navarra region.

It then clambered over a wire fence and into the crowd causing panic as people ran to escape it.
 
The local hospital treated 32 people for injuries, including one man who was gored in the back, a woman who suffered a crushed vertebrae, and a ten year-old boy with “abdominal trauma” after the bull fell on him.

Others received cuts and bruises and several were treated for shock by paramedics at the Plaza de Toros.

The bull, named Quesero, had already twice tried to jump the barrier during the event, breaking one of its horns, and was about to be removed from the arena when it launched itself into the crowd.

“The bull had already made a few attempts, but I was relatively calm,” said one of those injured. “And suddenly, I saw that the animal had jumped and, after staying stuck on the fence for a few seconds, it came over. Then there was chaos ... There was stomping, pushing, shrieks, blows.”

The bull was finally brought under control by bullring employees after about 15 minutes before it was killed.

Such incidents rarely occur at bullfights. Although the animals occasionally manage to leap the security barrier surrounding the ring, it is unusual for them to breach the inner fence to reach the stands.

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[Cyrrex]

Except for the fact that a boy got injured and the bull was put down, this would otherwise be a great story.

[MahrinSkel]

After too much research, I have established that there are no funny cheese jokes.  Except for the one about the bull named "Cheese" that got even with the spectators at a bullfight.

--Dave

[01101010]

Mild necro for flaming goodness. I had no idea they did shit like this either. What man stood around and thought, 'man, ya know, running with the bulls is pretty fun, but what would make it even better? . . . I know, FIRE!'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39309931/ns/world_news-europe/

[Grimwell]

WTF?

I'm not anything close to PETA but that looks like a huge combination of cruelty + ass stupid.

[Paelos]

I don't know, the pictures make it look pretty bad ass. At first, I thought it was about setting bulls on fire. The reality is much tamer.

[Cyrrex]

It's even better when you can call forth images of one of those burning torches getting stuffed up the asshole of some stupid tourist who's decided to make a run.

[Engels]

Call me an asshole, but I'm secretly tickled that an EU country decides to put flaming torches on a thousand pound animal, let it run wild through the city and no one thinks about public safety, or fire hazard, or anything.

Here in the US we couldn't strap a matchstick to a windup toy without 4 lawyers lined up with 3 kinds of litigation.

[Tebonas]

They are arming the Bulls to give them a fighting chance? Hell, since they can't pull a trigger on an Automatic weapon thats the next best thing. When all the retards thinking this is fun are dead we can disarm the bulls with buckets of water. Win for everyone.

[Grimwell]

My assumption is that the bulls are scared shitless to be honest. They can't rationalize "Fire won't get me up there, I am safe!" like we could.

[Cyrrex]

My assumption is that the bulls are scared shitless to be honest. They can't rationalize "Fire won't get me up there, I am safe!" like we could.

You're right, and despite the snarky comments I made above...I find this disgusting.  Human beings fucking suck.

[Paelos]

My assumption is that the bulls are scared shitless to be honest. They can't rationalize "Fire won't get me up there, I am safe!" like we could.

Maybe, maybe not. I still thought they were going to set bulls on fire, or kill them in some horrible fashion. This is neither. There are better things to get panty-bunched about in my view.

[01101010]

I don't think there is an animal alive that is not frightened of fire in some way. Strapping torches on a bull's horns and lighting them on fire - I don't think the bull is that unaware considering the flames are in eye-shot on either side. I just thought the idea alone is a little fucked up for people to organize an actual event around.

[Paelos]

I don't think there is an animal alive that is not frightened of fire in some way. Strapping torches on a bull's horns and lighting them on fire - I don't think the bull is that unaware considering the flames are in eye-shot on either side. I just thought the idea alone is a little fucked up for people to organize an actual event around.

It's Spain. They have some weird international obsession with bulls. Also, the porn over there is free and plays in your hotel room on regular channels. It's not all bad.

[Tebonas]

You can get the porn part without the killing the bulls part in the rest of Europe. So yes its all bad.