I know everyone wants to know how Bob Barker feels:
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"I know that every national animal protection organization is absolutely opposed to rodeo and the Calgary Stampede is considered one of the most despicable of all rodeos in the world."
I need to know what other retired game show hosts think before I make a decision. Bob Eubanks, Monte Hall, Wink Martindale - please step up and provide your opinion.
What bothers me about the Vancouver Humane Society's annual attention-whoring is that the folks there are no doubt sitting and hoping for an animal injury or fatality so they can say "SEE? SEE? WE TOLD YOU!"
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
Ugh, nothing annoys me more than when people compare a human being to an animal in this way. A calf is not equivalent to a human being no matter how cute you make it look.
Human beings are animals.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens(Latin: "wise man" or "knowing man")
Trinomial name;
Homo sapiens sapiens
As we are the dominant life form on this particular planet we basically make the rules about what we think is inferior to us. Nevertheless, we are what we are. Animals. Just like the other animals.
I agree with the premise that its pretty much inevitable rodeo will die at some point, probably within the next 100 years or maybe sooner. But die it will.
The good news is that most people go to the Stampede for reasons other than seeing rodeo or chucks, therefore the festival itself is likely to morph and survive.
Cowperson
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As we are the dominant life form on this particular planet we basically make the rules about what we think is inferior to us. Nevertheless, we are what we are. Animals. Just like the other animals.
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....
We are not just like the other animals.
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As we are the dominant life form on this particular planet we basically make the rules about what we think is inferior to us.
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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The good news is that most people go to the Stampede for reasons other than seeing rodeo or chucks, therefore the festival itself is likely to morph and survive.
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.
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?
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.
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
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I'll look forward to your reading about your respective deaths by grizzly and shark in the near future then.
but you won't, see that's the differnce. this animal was smart enough to have other animals that developed gun powder.....so i can shoot the bear/shark/insert large animal name here
