Senseless Cow Murder

I'm sorry but I'm ignorant about Coppola's buffalo. He should be called to account for any harm he did to the buffalo.
For the past few decades in American film making, animals rights in films have been protected to some extent. A film maker cannot use wires to trip and maim horses in westerns, for example. If Chinese film makers intend to make a profit from having their movies available for American audiences, they should have to adhere to the same laws guarding animal rights as do American film makers.
Your argument, "cows are slaughtered daily to feed the masses" is begging the question. Not only have the methods of slaughter been made more humane, but cows are not food. Cows are animals. It's their planet, too.

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I don't believe we were "put" on this earth. We evolved here like everything else, like apples on a tree. According to my anthropology knowledge, which is limited, our ancestors (the monkey kind) were vegetarians. They ate only vegetation and their stomachs were bigger because they had to process more bulky food to get enough protein. At some point the humanoid began eating meat and as their need for large amounts of food decreased their stomachs became smaller. They also grew canine incisors to tear flesh. However, many vegans and vegetarians have survived very well without eating dead animals.
As for cows, bulls and other animals, evolution has caused them to be here with us. People were able to domesticate cows, goats, horses,dogs, cats, etc. because of several factors inherent in their wild counterparts that made them easy to domesticate. I am not against meat-eaters, as some animals exist because people "created" them from their wild ancestors and we as a culture agree that they are edible. However, I am against cruelty and abuse of them, as can be seen in most meat processing plants, really sick people who kick their dogs, caged chicken farms, and of course in the making of some Chinese and Korean movies. Animals (and children) are innocent and only we can protect them. Each animal who has been eaten has been Christ, giving up his/her life so another can live (don't get excited, I'm not talking about Jesus). So when a person eats a dead animal, the person should be aware of the life that has been given up for his/her sake, so he/she can live another day, or a few hours.
I was not raised vegetarian, but once I became aware that hamburgers didn't grow on trees I did my best to stop eating dead animals. Sometimes I have to (such as when I'm a guest) and then I acknowledge and give thanks to the life given up for me. I do not tell other people what to eat. This issue is about whether animals should be treated humanely; it's not about whether a person should be a vegetarian. Thanks for asking.

The bull sacrifice scene was anthropological. The village was murdering the bull as part of a religious rite.. The bull was going to be murdered whether Coppola filmed it or not. It was pornographic. What is the kind of movie that is pornographic and a woman is actually killed? "Slash" or something. That's what it was. The bull in The Promise would not have been murdered had the filmmaker not put him in harm's way. And just because China's human rights record is horrendous, it does not follow that their record on animal rights needs to be downplayed or made less significant.