Rodeos, Bull Riding Events in LA May Soon be a Thing of the Past;
A recent bull riding event at Staples Center that sparked protests led the Board of Animal Services Commissioners Tuesday to unanimously approve a motion in support of banning such events in Los Angeles.
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“Los Angeles, and now California, has made it very clear how we feel about circuses. Circuses and rodeos are very much alike,” Heather Hamza, a registered nurse and animal rights activist, told the commission. “Circuses take wild animals and make them tame. Rodeos take tame animals and make them wild.”
Hamza said the animals in rodeos are artificially induced to be terrified, and also often suffer grave injuries and death as a result of participating in rodeo events. Among the issues she cited were horses running into walls and killing themselves, bulls breaking their legs and backs, and steers and calves having their necks injured during roping and wresting events.
She also said wild cow milking events are “actually like gang rape, it’s disgusting.”
milking is like rape. How much milk did she ever give. chase her down and milk her.
More like put a ring in that schnoz and ride her.
Et voila! The duality of nature revealed.
Has anyone seen the cover of Lucy’s 5 year anniversary edition?
That’s some rodeo.
So taming wild animals is wrong, and making tame animals go wild is wrong? Let’s just kill them all. (And eat them.)
Ya gotta admire the Left’s sloganeering talent. Circuses TAME wild animals, and Rodeos make WILD animals from tame ones. Brilliant! It … sounds … so profound and easily understood. That’s the value of slogans … easily grasped by the masses.
My advice … the RNC and CPC need Kate on permanent retainer.
I’m surprised rodeos still exist in our neurotic snowflake world, but I expect unless there is a hell of a lot of pushback against the various activists they will be gone within a decade.
After that happy date,the lunatics will turn their sights onto all contact sports, then smaller venue sports like loggers sports days, then fishing derbies, baseball, golf, and finally ,NASCAR.
We can all sit home and read the inspiring works of Karl Marx instead, and thank Him for the wonderful life we lead.
That, my friend, is exactly where we are headed.
Wearing grey smocks and waving little red books will be the national sport.
Mao’s red book or the soon to come new red book “Sayings of Dear Leader Justin”?
Just imagine how much cheaper your Tesla Model would be … if they only came in gray! Wouldn’t everyone WANT that? If not, “we” shall MAKE them ‘want that’
Don, next up is banning chicken choking :-))))
I’d wager the livestock in rodeos get treated a whole lot better by cowboys than LA’s homeless population gets treated by LA’s politicians,police and residents. Banning rodeos is an exercise is class snobbery not health and welfare.
The rodeo animals get food, water, shelter, bathed and brushed, stalls are mucked out and they get regular vet visits. Horses are treated like family.
The homeless get mistreated and ignored until they’re needed as props for politicians and rich people to collect virtue signalling points.
In fact, animal entertainers in the rodeo are treated better than Weinstein and other TV and movie executives treat actresses and actors. Yet, all of Hollywood, the politicians and police managed to ignore that type of sexual, emotional and physical abuse for decades. /s
LA does not have the moral high ground to arrogantly lecture anyone about anything.
I’m not kidding about “the horse is family” thing. Two hairdressers at the salon I go to are barrel racers. Pictures of their horse are tucked into the mirror along with pictures of kids and even grandkids. Same with my girl cousins and friends when we were kids- snapshots of their horse and themselves in sides of the mirror in their bedroom, framed pictures of horse and rider duo in the hallways, horses everywhere. Even today, many of them have horses in their profile pictures on social media.
A good stock contractor wants his rodeo animals to be as good as possible. Their ideal performance is a DQ for every bull rider and bronc rider and roper. And they don’t get that from animals that have been mistreated or aren’t at the top of their health and spirit.
LC, you would be surprised at how play full some horses can be. And they love attention, getting hugs and just general socializing. Had one very large quarter horse who kept stealing my X’s scarf, as she was holding the gate for me as I was moving shelters. Yah, dogs and horses are often like family!!!!
I like horses. They’re interesting creatures with distinct personalities who are all smart enough to know that I am not an experienced rider. I seem to amuse them with my clumsy ways. Though it’s been a while since I’ve gone horse riding.
Rodeo livestock are treated better than the homeless because in general they are usually better behaved, often more hygienic, more attractive, represent a higher economic opportunity, and overall, better suited for the dependency lifestyle than the misfits, druggies, mental cases, political activists, and even the down and outers who haven’t actually chosen that lifestyle and likely represent a small minority in such encampments.
I’d contract out social services to the Hutterites and they would have a much better chance of making something out of them. On the colonies they would eat like kings while they “learn” to work like dogs!
There was a time, not that long ago, where the mentally ill were given shelter and treatment instead of left to rot on the streets. Those facilities had problems but I fail to see how the current situation is an improvement. Are living conditions for the mentally ill better on the streets?
LC
I think it boils down to the notion of compulsory institutionalization of people tormented with “mental” issues versus their own (arguably incompetent) decisions on lifestyle, some of whom prefer institutionalization which now only exists as prison. How do you “help” people who don’t want “help”? Who determines at what point “incompetence” subverts free will and the slippery slope that ensues from such intervention?
John, it all boils down to “emotionalizing” rather than rationalizing situations. That slipper slope people like to drag out when discussing issues like this is mostly myth, with a small helping of SWTF. Mistakes will be made no matter what model is used.
The libertarian argument resonates with me but the philosophy of free choice for consenting adults is usually understood as the adults being of sound mind.
Personally, I think that the decision was less about free choice and more about economics. It’s cheaper for the state to bury a mentally ill homeless person than to care for them
Do you want AOC to determine if you have “mental” issues sufficient to commit you to an institution?
What makes you think that would not be how the system would “work” today?
Wild cows?
If rodeos are banned, then I guess a certain street in the region has to be renamed to, say, Karl Marx Drive. Then, a certain popular saying will have to be revised to, maybe, “it’s not your first gulag”.
All references to cowboys will have to be purged, so all those movies by John Wayne, Randolph Scott, and Joel McCrea will be banned, unless, of course, they’re to be used for indoctrinating the masses about the evils of exploiting animal and in-touch-with-the-earth natives.
Yes, it is all so bourgeois.
The sooner that state falls into the ocean the better,let’s just hope there is a world wide PETA convention in LA when it happens
Heather Hamza is a registered nurse, an animal rights activist and a certified moron.
“Circuses and rodeos are very much alike”
Communism and socialism are very much alike.
“The goal of socialism is communism.”
Vladimir Lenin
Here’s a goat being horribly mistreated at a 4-H Rodeo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mccormickphotography/9418085495/in/album-72157634639803809/
Can you see the terror? (snort)
Here’s the rest of the pictures from the weekend.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mccormickphotography/albums/72157634639803809
These Goat Fu#kers want all the Goats for themselves….Get a adult sheep who doesn’t choke on your parts…
OK. I have had enough from the long haired, no haired, shit for brains, freaky people. Leave me the hell alone. If they want to marry a goat or a red chicken, let ’em go for it. I just don’t want to hear about it anymore. If there was any way to hurry up the slide of kalipornia into the ocean, I would contribute cash. Call me when the money is payable. I’ll send a check.
I am not an animal rights nut by even a remote stretch, and I don’t sit anywhere close to the left of the political spectrum. Meat eating conservative here.
But when you have a grown man pulling with all his weight on a cow’s tail to try and stop it, and another grown man hanging off its neck, so that a third grown man can try and milk it, while the cow frantically tries to escape, then those same men shouldn’t be crying when the animal rights types get a little agitated.
But more than that, such a “sport” is the very sort of thing that turns people off eating meat altogether. If I were a rancher I would frankly be pissed off.
This is why for example Ferrari sells limited edition models to customers *they* choose, because they don’t want ugly dumb rappers driving them like idiots into street poles and tarnishing the Ferrari image (not to mention destroying rare editions).
Now back to eating the chicken I picked up from a local farm here and roasted on the spit earlier this evening.
dog shows, canines running thru the course lickety split? yep.
funny pig races? yep
agriculture shows spelling out the ginormous benefits of that sector and attention to clean methodologies? yep
humane slaughtering methods and rigid enforcement of same? yep
working on a farm, getting up before dark and going to bed after sunset, dealing with all that regulation? yep
funding veterinary colleges and those attending them, and 10s of millions every year on valid research? yep
beating up and scaring the bejeezuz out of a cow for the temporary transient entertainment of the crowd?
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