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Originally Posted by AcGold
well
"treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly."
don't know how calf roping isn't violent, also, nice false equivalence. We aren't going to change each others minds so just agree to disagree?
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Well for one thing, we were talking about horses/chucks since that was what the protesters wee there about.....nothing to do with the rodeo but since you moved the goalposts...
From one of the protesters mouths..
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Well, I think the point is pretty clear. Enough is enough. No more dead horses. For the last nine years in a row horses have died during these races and for the last 28 years in a row more than 60 horses have died during these races,” said Daviduk, adding it was surprisingly easy for the two to execute their plan.
“So at what point do we say the risk of injury and death is too high, we need to retire these. How many horses have to die?”
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Sounds like a lot for sure...until you add this fact to it
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In 28 years, there have been more than 78,000 horse starts at the Stampede.
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I just dont see how that can be construed as "abusive" or "excessive" or the risk far to high.
Again, these animals are racing and alive for one reason...its what they do. If they dont do that...well there is a reason the horse meat industry has little problem finding product.