Lita Barretto Bull owners reject claims of cruelty, saying they treat the bulls like their own children and at Rs 5,000-10,000 each, fighting them is a way of recouping the cost of keeping the animals BULLFIGHTING WAS once a way of life in the resort state of Goa, with thousands of people gathering on Sundays and public holidays to cheer on the animals as they locked horns The controversial tradition was banned in the former Portuguese colony in 1998, but it could now be set for a comeback after a politician who vowed to campaign against the ban won a seat in the parliamentary elections