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wrong, if we were "just like the other animals" I could take a ride on Monkey Airlines or go to Moose Village to get hoove cut pastries, or I could get a nice Janice burger....
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Well, if we are the dominant life form, then by definition all other animals are inferior. Who are we to mess with cosmic rules? 
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I'll look forward to your reading about your respective deaths by grizzly and shark in the near future then.
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I think there is a lot of truth to this... but also a lot of false. The rodeo is the heart of the event. Take it away, and the Stampede is no different than Klondike Days/Capital Ex or the Red River Exhibition. It would be reduced to being simply another non-descript for-profit traveling carnival stripped of virtually everything that makes it unique. Would the Stampede survive in some form? Certainly. But it would be a mere shadow of what it is today.
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It's death will be through a change in public attitudes therefore whatever it morphs into would be welcome by the public of the time.
I didn't say it would be the same thing. And at the time of morphing, whatever emerges might be quite welcome by the general public.
Attitudes towards animal welfare are shifting all the time. In the late 1990's, for the first time, masses of people refused to evacuate and leave their pets behind during the ice storms in Ontario and Quebec. That was repeated in greater numbers during Hurricane Katrina. Now any updated, modern disaster service plan has to allow for the accomodation of pet evacuation so that humans will leave as well.
It used to be fun to put coyotes in a corral and have kids beat them to death with clubs . . . . . until Life Magazine published a photo essay about it.
You can't really know what the world will look like in 50 years but I would wager that animal welfare issues will continue to advance and take down rodeos, by pure economics, one by one.
Cowperson