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is an example of a modern blood sport.]] Bloodsport or '''blood sport''' is a term commonly used by social reformers to describe Sport or Entertainment which is believed to be cruel, involving needless animal or human suffering.[http://www.americansportsdata.com/pr-huntingsocialanalysis.asp Hunting Social Analysis], American Sports Data. The term can refer to chase sports such as Coursing or Beagling , combat sports such as Cockfight ing, or other activities. It also includes spectacles that involve pitting one animal against another in a fight. These usually involve blood being drawn, and sometimes result in the death of one or more animals. USE OF THE TERM "BLOOD SPORT" in the Très Riches Heures ]] According to the Oxford English Dictionary the earliest use of the term is in reference to mounted hunting, where the quarry would be actively chased as in Fox Hunting or Hare Coursing . Before Firearms a hunter using Arrow s or a Spear might also wound an animal, which would then be chased and perhaps killed at close range, as in Medieval Boar hunting. The term was popularised by author Henry S. Salt (1851–1939). Later the term seems to have been applied to various kinds of , Bear-baiting , Cockfighting and then later developments such as Dog Fighting and Rat-baiting . These were appreciably less like a modern human Sport in that animals were not willing participants, but had to be specially bred, confined or forced to fight. It was after the development of such activities in the Victorian Era that Social Reform activists actively opposed them on grounds of Ethics , Morality and Animal Welfare . By further extension other activities may now be called "blood sports". Sometimes this is clearly Figurative , as when Politics is likened to a blood sport. Sometimes this is Anachronistic , as when the term is applied retroactively to Roman Gladiator s. Sometimes it is rhetorical, as when professional Boxing is compared to the fatal combats of Ancient Rome. CURRENT ISSUES |
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