Tell Kickstarter Inc. to amend their guidelines to not allow animal abuse, cruelty or killing. Kickstarter is a platform and resource to fund projects with a mission to help bring creative projects to life. They are currently supporting the funding of a project by Peter Steinfeld to make a film following a man who wakes up one morning believing that God put him on earth to fight bulls, the film is called “Howard Kaplan: The Last Jewish Bullfighter”.

The tragedy of bullfighting takes a confused, maimed, psychologically tormented, and physically debilitated animal through torture and death. Once a bull is forced into an arena and taunted, Picadors drive lances into his back and neck muscles, impairing his ability to lift his head, they twist and gouge the lances to ensure a significant amount of blood loss. Banderilleros on foot, proceed to distract and dart around the bull while stabbing him with brightly colored darts, after blood loss has weakened him, the banderilleros run the bull in more circles until he becomes dizzy and stops chasing. After provoking a few exhausted charges from the dying animal, the matador tries to deliver the death blow, if he misses, he successes only in further mutilation, then an executioner is called in to stab the exhausted animal to death.  If the crowd is happy with the matador, the bull’s ears and tail or a hoof may be cut off.  A few minutes later, another bull enters the arena and the gruesome cycle begins again.

Please support this petition in support of changing Kickstarter’s guidelines to prohibit animal abuse, cruelty, torture and killing. 

The kickstarter project can be seen here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607466588/howard-kaplan-the-last-jewish-bullfighter?ref=recommended