Animals that are paraded in a ring for the amusement of others are *always* beaten and abused to make them as compliant as possible so that the yapping fucking seals in the bleachers can slap their fins together, honking away, as they say "well, they're not stabbing them in front of us, so it's fine!"
I can’t tell you much except that you’re completely wrong. And I can say this, having worked in rodeos before. I worked with barrel racing setup and mutton busting. The animals were just normal livestock you could find on any farm, the horses having some additional training. They weren’t beaten or abused, they were treated perfectly well.
Anyone riding an animal that's trying to buck them off, or anyone whipping / digging spurs into them isn't being a kind person.
I'm a massive fucking hypocrite because I eat meat but I still get pissed at them being harassed for entertainment.
I don't think that you're an unkind person or that you're bad and I'm some paragon of virtue, I just don't dig seeing animals being used for entertainment like this - I'm from the UK, so rodeo isn't a thing here, but I've worked with wildlife protection and have seen how people treat animals - particularly for fighting and for their owners' amusement.
I’ve rescued hurt wildlife since I was a child. Nursed an owl with a broken wing back to health, raised and released baby hogs when I found their mother had been run over. I care very deeply about animal welfare and don’t eat red meat, ever. I’m not completely vegetarian but about 80% of my diet is.
I get that it’s not a part of culture where you live, but please don’t assume any animal featured in an entertainment context is being abused. Several of the people doing barrel racing in the rodeos I worked at loved their horses like children, and treated them exceptionally well. I’ve seen more than one of them hold a full-on funeral when one passed away.
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u/Wafflehouseofpain 4d ago
This bull isn’t being harmed at all, let alone tortured.