The Jallikattu belt of Tamil Nadu consists of 18 districts – a single large continuous area where you have thriving native breeds. Jallikattu has very important rules about not hurting the animals in the arena. You cannot hold their horns, You cannot hold or twist their tails. You cannot hang on to the neck of the bull and you should not hinder the legs of the bull by locking your legs to it. So all your strength is restricted only to holding onto the humps. There is no animal torture involved here at all. There have been instances where animals have been mishandled but existing animal rights laws can be invoked, new safeguards promoted to avoid such instances in the future.