The toro bravo is the most privileged of all managed animals. For four or five years he ranges over the campo with his family and friends and with very little contact with humans. Compare this to a beef cow – kept indoors, fed on silage, crowded into a lorry and moved through many European borders for tax advantages, with little food or water, then shot in the head (killed first time if lucky, but not always) in an abattoir.
When the toro bravo travels, he goes Pullman-style: the laws of toreo regulate the size of each compartment, the temperature, the food and drink.
Anti-toristas may garner more sympathy for their argument if they first call for changes, on land and at sea, in the way that the food that we eat is produced. I fear they regard toreo as an easy target. Do any of them think what will happen to the toro bravo if they get their way? Mass slaughter of an indiscriminate kind and the loss of a great cultural tradition.

You got it wrong. Opera is an art form. Bullfighting is an art form in southern France, where the animal is unharmed, and where it's not fighting at all, not in Spain or Mexico. Raising a cape doesn't take much intelligence nor talent. Killing a defenseless animal for fun and games and vanity, goes beyond art form, that goes even beyond abuse. Think for once outside of the human side of things, and look what the animal goes through. Why should an animal undergo this senseless slaughter? Would you? It never volunteered, and it is not fighting. Bullfighting is a misnomer. It is a ritualistic sacrifice of an innocent and beautiful creature. Assassins are cowards.