Bob Barker has spoken, Stampede may now officially begin!
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"I would like very much to see them celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede by saying that is enough animal cruelty," Barker said recently in an interview with The Canadian Press. "Let's wind it up and close it down."
I'll look forward to your reading about your respective deaths by grizzly and shark in the near future then.
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
Thank you for being a voice of reason, Cowperson.
It always amazes me how fervently people attach themselves to a context-based perspective.
Please, by all means show me where he expands his argument beyond 'rodeo is bad.' The farthest hes come to even explaining why this is his opinion is 'because its cruel.'
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I was trying to find a clip of him having women reach into his pocket for the $100 bill if they got their bid exactly right, but that was the closest I could find.
When I was wee lad, I loved to watch The Price is Right, Family Feud (with Richard Dawson, RIP), and the Match Game (with Gene Rayburn, RIP). I'm surprised I'm not a bigger lecherous pig than I am.
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I was trying to find a clip of him having women reach into his pocket for the $100 bill if they got their bit exactly right, but that was the closest I could find.
When I was wee lad, I loved to watch The Price is Right, Family Feud (with Richard Dawson, RIP), and the Match Game (with Gene Rayburn, RIP). I'm surprised I'm not a bigger lecherous pig than I am.
I was a little older when that was on, and I was talking more about the blatant sexism of the other shows. I don't recall that being an issue with Press Your Luck.
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I was a little older when that was on, and I was talking more about the blatant sexism of the other shows. I don't recall that being an issue with Press Your Luck.
