Mexican and Spanish bullfights would not be permitted in the United States, and yet it is a question whether the birds or the animals who take part in these fights really suffer very much.

They are in a state of ferocious exaltation, and are more concerned about killing their opponents than about their own hurts.

Soldiers have been seriously wounded without knowing anything about it until the excitement of the battle had died away.

Why then forbid cockfighting or bull-baiting?
They would be popular amusements if allowed.

It is certain that animals that are driven long distances along dirty roads, cattle, sheep, and fowl that are cooped up for many weary hours in railway trucks, simply that they may reach a distant market and be slaughtered to gratify perverted human appetites, really suffer more than the cock or bull who may be killed or wounded in a fight with others of his own kind.