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If we take away the activities these horses are bred for, what then is the point of raising them at all? Should we just all have 1 to whatever number of horses, lets say 30, standing in our back yard un-trained, doing nothing, getting fat and foundering, so that some kid who would rather be playing with electronics ride it once a year? Or should we just let them die off and become extinct?
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So the only two existential options for horse-kind are rodeo or extinction?
Also, I think that the author misses several key distinctions that are important to people who have concerns about rodeo events: (1) the difference between using animals for productive work and using animals purely for our entertainment or pleasure (similar perhaps to the difference between hunting for sport and hunting for food); and (2) the difference between the historic purpose of rodeo (to assist in breeding more productive work animals) and its modern purpose of entertainment, gambling, and creating a market for giant belt buckles.