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Bullfighting Laid Bare

Might the Internet serve as a deterrent thanks to its ability to lay bare truths? Vet Patty Khuly comments on a video of the “most horrific scenes bullfighting has ever offered.”
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Might the Internet serve as a deterrent thanks to its ability to lay bare truths? Vet Patty Khuly hopes that’s the case with a YouTube video of one of the “most horrific scenes bullfighting has ever offered.” “Sometimes it takes a prodigious display of gore to drive home the obvious,” she says. “Here’s one striking example of how the Internet might actually serve as perfect deterrent in its ability to lay bare the truths inherent to bull-on-human interactions and their potentially undignified results.”

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