It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.

I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.