Bullfighting: tradition or torture?

When many people think of Spain they think in flamenco and bullfighting. During the Franco’s dictatorship this idea was promoted abroad and still persists. Today what I am going to talk is about bullfighting. There has always been debate about whether it Spain should abolish bullfighting, but since Catalonia decided to do so in 2010, the debate has intensified. The picture that is given to us about bullfighting is a picture of an idealized bullfighter who is making art, dancing with the bull. However, the harsh reality is that these animals suffer greatly at the hands of these bullfighters. The main argument of the more conservative people is that bullfighting is a tradition that can’t be missed because it is part of the Spanish culture. They also claim that, since these bulls are bred only for the purpose of bullfighting, if bullfighting were banned and these bulls maiden free its species would become extinct. Moreover, we find the anti-bullfighting associations that carry out peaceful protests to end with the torture suffered by these animals. I think it's pretty clear what my answer to the question in the title would be: TORTURE. I think that an advanced society should treat animals properly, they are living beings that share habitat with us. However, bullfighting is still deeply rooted mainly in the deep Castile and Andalusia and only the Canary Islands (1991) and Catalonia (2010) have dared to ban it as we see in the following map:

Below you can also see in which territories of the world bullfighting is still legal (in green) and in which ones was legal but now is banned (in red):