But for others, the rodeo is a horror show in which terrified animals are chased around an arena, kicked by strangers, tossed onto the ground with potentially bone-crushing impact — all while loud music is blared and dozens, if not hundreds, of people yell, scream and clap from the nearby stands.
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No, no - this article isn't biased at all.
It was probably written by some thing sporting rainbow hair, nose ring and a Pride yard sign in front of its house, somebody who's never actually seen a real live cow.
" skill, bravery and strength". All verboten skills in the mind of the left.
ReplyDeleteThere are very different types of rodeos and those in the USA are very tame. Most of the rodeos in the USA are people trying to stay on feral animals, wrestling sheep, lasso calves, etc, and the cows either have down-turned horns, blunted, or clipped. It's my opinion that American rodeos are a neutered and uninteresting joke with hardly anything left to ban.
ReplyDeleteThe real rodeos are down in Mexico and those can get messy when the horses or riders get the horns. Nothing gets clipped, blunted, or pointed down on the cattle. It's of the few "legal" blood sports still in existence and there is plenty of blood for all when things go "wrong"; much like a catastrophic crash in racing. Such things really should be banned and I'm sure I'll have plenty more people lining up to call me a bleeding heart liberal for it. The practice is incompatible with a virtuous people / civilization.
- Arc
It's not supposed to be a blood sport, ya nincompoop. If you'd ever been to a rodeo, you'd know that. It's a competition to showcase the skills of the cowboys against the animals. They started out as small events on individual ranches and grew from there. And those animals aren't feral, they're bred to buck.
DeleteAnd if you don't think they're dangerous here in the US, especially bull riding, look up Lane Frost. Go to youtube and check out the Tuff Hedeman/Bodacious ride. Watch any PBR event and check out the crush vests and helmets they wear nowadays.
You're a pussy hiding behind an Anonymous name tag.
DeleteI think Hollywood should quit using animals, guns and people in movies because it's barbaric! /sarc
DeleteUm, Anon@8:13? I hate to tell you this but you're the only one commenting as Anon in this thread.
DeleteWhen my eldest brother was about five, dad's bull was borrowed for the min-dakota saddle horse day rodeo. After throwing his rider, he came over to the fence. My brother hopped into the arena and walked him back to his stall. Bucking is a natural reaction for animals not broken to ride.
DeleteThe brahma bulls are naturally mean. My wife's family raise them. Her son got mauled by one and nearly died.
It's good to read that some folks are fighting back, as they should.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like rodeo, don't go. But mind your own business, anyway.
P.S. It doesn't look to me like rodeo bulls are terrorized. It looks to me like they're loving every minute of their challenging job and celebrity status, much like the guys that try to stay on them.
I for one marvel at their (the bulls) power and athletic ability. They're amazing.
Bulls get to keep their balls, of course they are happy
DeleteDaryl
I never thought of it like that. Balls (bull riders) on Balls (bulls). No wonder it's always an epic battle and that the ladies love it.
DeleteGod Bless the America that we all know and love.
They worried about poor animals, then the libs oughta go after the illegal Beaner cock-fight promoters and puppuy-breading mills rather than a couple hundred year old relatively safe tradition.
ReplyDeleteAll you need is a single small change in the program: offer chasing and roping and branding of deplorables. Your stadiums will be full.
ReplyDeleteBut to top it all off: Grab the wokeist people in the audience, identify them as deplorables, and have a field day.
Libs don't actually care about whatever they want to censor today. They want the power to censor. Never a logical, proveable, valid reason is ever given for today's thing that must be stopped right this minite or the world will end. Why do Libs want to share their misery? Misery loves company. Happy Thanksgiving all!
ReplyDeleteYou're right, they'll end up banning themselves eventually.
DeleteIf you don't like rodeos, don' t go to them.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like drag shows in schools and libraries, don't go to them.
DeleteIf you don't like revisionist history or pornography, don't read it.
If you don't like monopoly internet companies, then don't use the internet.
If you don't like the crime ridden section 8 housing then stay out of it and pretend it's not there, but don't you dare try to prevent it from being built.
Don't participate in criminal activities if you don't like them, but don't stop anyone else.
ad nauseam. . . 'If you don't like it, don't participate' is a libertarian wet dream. Even if you don't participate, the rot is still there and festering. See our lovely cities for examples of letting people do what they please without consequence.
I don't give a hoot about US rodeos and don't care to watch them but there is also very little in them that could be considered socially destructive or morally broken. In matters of style, people can participate in what they will and I opt not to in regards to rodeos; but in matters of principle and morality, I will be proactive in either maintaining things which I believe are good and removing that which is evil.
"If you don't like it, don't do it" is just as bad as "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." The little mantras break against rights, liberty, and legality in various ways.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson.
Pardon my rant, but I get fed up with people that spit this one liner out, as if it justifies any given activity.
- Arc
Kind of a far stretch there, comparing a sport that we elect to watch to immoral or illegal activities that are forced on us, don't you think?
DeletePersonally, I'd love to give up the internet but our lives have gotten so wrapped around it that it's almost impossible to live without it for the sake of convenience. Same thing with a smart phone which is why I'm steadfastly resisting it. No way do I want to get caught in that trap.
I think it's not far fetched at all. Electing to watch something doesn't make the activity acceptable. People elect to watch dog fights but we have legislated the practice into illegality; as with many activities. Rodeos are called sports because the majority of people have deemed them acceptable. If the people decided rodeos constituted animal cruelty or were otherwise unacceptable, then we would be calling them illegal activity as well. It wouldn't be unconstitutional to ban the events and thus little room for legal challenges.
DeleteAgain, I'm not saying American rodeos are unacceptable. It's the idea that people should continue to ignore things they don't like and not challenge speech they disagree with; this is what I find to be unacceptable. This is one factor in why the west is in decline; we ceased upholding moral standards and abstained from regulating our civilization's health. Someone spouts their one-line mantra at us and we meekly nod our heads, become submissive, and mind our own affairs while knowing full well the subject matter is destructive and breeds more destruction. Too many people are scared to say "I think that's wrong and we shouldn't allow it in our society anymore."
If people abstain from determining the health of their people then the degenerate aspects will overrun them. Ex: IMHO; freedom of expression doesn't nullify public decency, and private property rights don't nullify burn restrictions, clean air laws, or hunting laws.
No one forces people into libraries, parks, and schools; though some form of education is compulsive. Crime is forced, but California is a great example of the people voting to legalize crime. People can and should stand up and say they believe certain activities are unacceptable. I picked some extremes to get the point across. Minding your own business and not participating is like ignoring an infection; it just festers and spreads. What is legal is not always moral, and both can change with the winds without a principled foundation. Like it or not, drag demons are legal, public obscenities, etc, and the same matter of legality and illegality applies to a litany of other activities such as personal drug use (including alcohol), fur farming, and home laboratories, etc. We can prostrate ourselves to "If you don't like it, don't participate." or be active in what we believe is acceptable to our people. I think certain activities like public drug use / drunkenness and drag are unacceptable and I am not afraid to use every cent and letter of the law against these things.
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Yep, well into 2010, I did just fine without a cellphone and I only got one because uncle Sam commanded it. Now, I use it for taking pictures around the farm, broadband internet access, and talking to my grandmother. My phone gets 32Mbit/s while my ISP can only produce a 4Mbit/s with unusable connectivity; a very nice perk. When not taking pictures, it's on my computer fans which drown out the microphone and restrict it's intrusion into my life. It might be a day or two before I learn someone texted me or called me and most people have learned not to unless it's super important.
- Arc
I am deeply conservative but the main events at the rodeo (bucking horse and bucking bull riding) are frauds. The animals are not bucking to get rid of the rider, they are bucking to get rid of the flank strap which is tied tightly and uncomfortably around their loins. The friction of the strap often scrapes hide and skin, leaving painful injuries. Without the strap as an inducement to go crazy, the horses would be tractable and the bulls would be annoyed but not nuts. Still dangerous, they’re bulls after all. I see it as harassing farm animals for no good reason.
ReplyDeleteWell, you might be deeply conservative but I don't think you know much about rodeos or livestock. Every single flank strap I've seen is either padded or sheepskin lined.
DeleteFROM HERE: https://www.calgarystampede.com/blog/2011/07/08/the-facts-about-flank-straps/
"On a new bucking horse, the strap around its flank causes a tickle, or at most an irritation (but so does any new piece of equipment on a new horse – even a saddle). On a practiced bucking horse or bull, the flank strap acts as a conditioning tool – the animal learns to associate the flank strap with performing.
The strap is adjustable to fit each individual horse or bull but is not possible to make an animal buck simply by adding a flank strap. If this were the case, then any animal could be bucking stock. The flank strap enhances the bucking action and helps the animal kick outwards and upwards but it doesn’t force the animal to buck if it doesn’t feel like it."
"arc" is articulate, but I just don't believe the whole "taking pictures around the farm" stuff. I was raised on a farm in the midwest, and rodeo is nothing like he portrays. It is a good social event for real rural folks. I could say that maybe his farm is a small one in a liberal state, but I won't, ad hominem shit is just that - shit.
DeleteFrom what I read, maybe he needs his own blog, then I can not visit it and won't have to read what he writes, because I disagree with dang near everything he wrote.
The “information” from the Calgary Stampede is quite self serving. What they’re saying is that the animals don’t “perform” without a flank strap but some are cooperative enough to tolerate it without rebelling, which makes them not “bucking stock”. I did enjoy rodeos and never considered them negatively until a horse I was riding for a summer was borrowed for a little local rodeo and returned to me with open flank injuries. This was a perfectly calm riding horse. They said he was a very good “bucking horse”. He never set a foot wrong when I rode him.
DeleteBulls are another thing entirely, but what’s the point of trying to ride one?
@ Anonymous "November 19, 2022 at 7:27 PM"
DeleteFarms come in all shapes and sizes and while I used to have livestock and grow for markets; that was too much labor for too little return. I don't keep doing what doesn't work and switched to converting the place into a plant nursery on a shoestring budget. Yes, the primary reason for me having a phone is for "taking pictures around the farm". I.E listing photos. Few people are going to buy specific cultivars or clones without seeing what they are getting.
Sometimes I go hike around my neighbors land (cousins and related families), and I take pictures of lichens, mushrooms, bugs, plants, and other oddities along the way. I even pop pictures of rocks when I go rock hunting in the local creeks. 3-4 generations ago, most of the land was all under the same family but land tends to get divided up with each generation.
I'm in Texas, but it's turning blue down here with rampant illegals and it's getting way too crowded in the countryside for my preference. One day I will have the money to get a second place in Idaho, where the population is very sparse, full of forests, mountains, and good hunting. IMHO, If I can see my neighbors then it's too crowded.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/755991595765203027/1044047289947275374/Small_plant.jpg This is a variegated ADL Macrogonus x Open Pollination that I grafted to an unknown but beautiful stock; both are Trichocereus. I intend to cut choice pieces of localized genetics to further graft, as well as send pieces to other vendors and friends. I suppose you can replace "farm" with "plant nursery"; although I hope to acquire some Axis deer one day and maybe convert one of the high tunnels into a quail coop. <3.
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I-DO-NOT-WATCH-RODEOS. I've seen some of them on youtube and found them to be utterly uninteresting. A rodeo connoisseur may find holes in my description of them which is stated plainly as my opinion (imperfect). Disagreement is healthy and is an indication that people are thinking; I would be somewhat worried if everyone agreed all the time on every topic.
- Arc
(If this comment double posts, delete one; I'm on my land line internet which is flaky, family borrowed the phone.)
I guess you never crossed a pasture only to be run up a tree by a longhorn which laid under the tree all day. Yeah, bulls make nice pets and never lose their temper. YDKS!
ReplyDeleteSo far, I've managed to cross cattle pastures without incident but I can usually see the herds and go well around them; I don't play stupid games with cattle, especially the unsocialized herds out here. All my life cattle have been getting out of their pens and I remember climbing into a tree when I was around eight years old to get away from someone's cows that invaded our front yard that was supposed to be safe. In more recent years, they would destroy irrigation pipes and crops and we spent quite a bit of time and money to fence them out of our land. Some of those cattle were aggressive and would square up wanting to charge. I wish there were stronger penalties for not keeping positive control of livestock.
DeleteI have had too many problems with the cattle from one troublesome pasture over the course of 30+ years and if those get out again then I'm just calling the sheriff to come collect them. I'm fed up with being a nice neighbor to people that don't reciprocate or improve. It takes the owners ~4-6 months to figure out their fence got ripped down or buried by routine flooding which means the two week astray notice will probably go right over their heads. These people aren't then norm for the county and most cattle and pastures are far better kept.
- Arc
I object to drag shows in public libraries cause my tax dollars pay for and I think we should all have a say in how our money is spent. I know, I know. Crazy talk
ReplyDeleteJFM
I object to drag show's in public libraries because children should not be exposed to such perversion.
DeleteTalk is cheap . I have a friend that farms an old hilltop farm here abouts and I buy all my beef from him . He is a retired bull rider . 46 years old and the only guy I know that walks worse than I do . He is plum wore out and beat up by those docile little bulls mentioned above . He still talks about the thrill and excitement of those rides and frankly I don't understand but I love and respect him as 100% man . And a very strong man . Nobody will dare call him anything less while I'm around .
ReplyDelete> somebody who's never actually seen a real live cow
ReplyDeleteOther than the hamplanets it no doubt hangs out with, that is.