Can This Video With a Velociraptor Change People's Minds About Bullfighting?

Inflaming public opinion of 'corrida'

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In 19th-century England, before social media became our bloodsport of choice, people used to gather ’round to watch something called “bear-baiting,” which involved a dude (or sometimes another animal, like a dog) tormenting a chained-up bear, usually until something (or someone) got wounded or died.

Decidedly archaic, right?

Fair enough. But it turns out sports like that still exist. And in a video called “Do you think this practice belongs to another age?”, BETC Paris draws our attention to just one such activity.

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Created for FLAC (the Federation of Leagues Against Corrida), the video kicks off with a velociraptor (!) getting released into an arena, then taunted and stabbed until it runs out of fighting spirit and collapses to the cheers of a live audience.

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