An MSG rodeo is just plain cruel
From Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)
We advocate on all animal protection and exploitation issues, including
experimentation, factory farming, rodeos, breeders and traveling animal acts.
An MSG rodeo is just plain cruel
Letter as published on
NYDailyNews.com
August 18, 2019
Tuckahoe, N.Y.: Madison Square Garden will be hosting a rodeo next year,
even though these cruel, vicious events have been banned or restricted all
over; how shameful that MSG welcomes them.
Since the rodeo crowd defends this blatant animal abuse as Americana, can we
assume we will be seeing black people in chains — another sad aspect of
Americana — at this event? Will we also look forward to seeing little
children laboring in unhealthy, unsafe sweatshop-like conditions — also part
of Americana — at the Garden? Of course not; we won’t see any of those
American “traditions” — only the horrific forced bucking of otherwise
peaceful bulls and horses, thugs yanking steers’ heads by the horns, chasing
frightened sheep and slamming them down to tie their legs up, and other
atrocities done to those who can’t complain. Americana changed for everyone
but those who have no voice.
Animals have died during these events. If they did this to dogs and cats,
rodeo people would be charged with abuse offenses. Unfortunately, old laws
exempt farm animals from most cruelty statutes. But decent people will not
attend this monstrosity; decent people will stand up to rodeo cowards and
say no! We reject harming sentient beings for entertainment. Decent people
will look past the Americana pretense and tell rodeo perpetrators to get out
of New York City.
Kiley Blackman
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