A Bunch of Male Apes Proving They Can Dominate Male Bovines? How Degrading for Apes and Bulls. Join the Demonstrations Against Bull Riding!
For Immediate Release: 14 March 2007
Friends of Animals
Vigil To Be Held 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Saturday, 17 March, Harbor Yard Arena, 600 Main St., Bridgeport, Connecticut
Darien, Conn., U.S. — When ticket holders arrive at Bridgeport’s Harbor Yard Arena on Friday and Saturday, March 16-17, 2007, they’ll be met by activists from Friends of Animals and the Connecticut Animal Rights Coalition, protesting an Enterprise Rent-A-Car sponsored rodeo event known as bull riding.
Bull riding is usually, albeit not necessary, performed by male apes of the species known as Homo sapiens. It can and does involve electro-shock devices, spurs, and flank straps; all would be called instruments of sadistic torture if used on the human ape.
Priscilla Feral, president of Connecticut-based Friends of Animals, says the keyed-up hominids claim their bulls can be worth $10,000 or more — as proof that such property would be well-treated.
Feral objects, “No one who respects other conscious animals would twist their tails in a chute, shock them with 5,000 volts as they exit, or tighten straps around their flanks to provoke them to violently buck their riders, as a bunch of people look on, hooting and hollering.”
“Professional Bull Riders, Inc. boasts that bull riding is a ‘dangerous, exciting, demanding’ event ‘requiring intense physical prowess.’ Based on such cowboy boasts, $10 million was awarded in prize money in 2006,” Feral adds.
Peace-seeking apes from Friends of Animals and the Connecticut Animal Rights Coalition note the value of deciding to stop supporting the practices that glorify such “prowess” — more frankly called the domination of captive animals. They explain that bulls and other animals no longer performing in rodeo arenas will be slaughtered.
“There are plenty of ways to have a day out without making a spectacle of other animals,” Feral says. “And every day, we can also advance animal interests through vegan living.”
Friends of Animals, headquartered in Darien, Connecticut, has been a global leader in animal rights advocacy since 1957.
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On March 15, 2007, dave wrote:
i think i might have read this wrong, are you saying they’re putting apes on bulls and making them ride them, or are you calling the boneheads that run rodeos apes. and whats a rodeo doing in connecticut, for that matter in the north east. nobody goes to those things, if i want to watch somebody make a fool of themselves i will go to the bar, it’s free.i thought after broke back mountain came out, all those yahoos disappeared. i thought rodeos were outlawed in most states in the north east.correct me if i am wrong, but i don’t think you can get a monkey to ride a bull, he would never survive. if you’re talking about humans, well if the bull stomps his head into the ground, who cares, that’s what happens when you go through life doing stupid things and acting like an idiot.
[Blog editors’ note: When we referred to male apes we do mean humans, as humans are apes of the species known as Homo sapiens. Rodeos are legal in most communities but change is inevitable when people stop rewarding and applauding dumb events.]
On March 16, 2007, Gabriele Schubert wrote:
I am acutely aware that maltreatment of the bulls is common and callously overlooked, in fact institutionalized as the means to provoke the bulls into the bucking that thrills the audience.
Is there any Senator who is mobilizing community sympathy for these magnificent animals and outrage against the industry (including TV) that now capitalizes on their pain?
Please let me know.
Thank you,
Gaby in San Diego
On March 26, 2007, Mandy wrote:
Many people attend rodeos and many more participate in the events. They are no more of a fool for riding a bull than you and many others who are uneducated about this issue. Being injured is a chance they take, and they accept that. When a bull rider is injured they dont blame anything, its part of the package. Sort of like driving a car. If you get in your car to drive somewhere you have to take the risk of being injured. I have been involved in many rodeos escpecially behind the scenes. Bulls can be dangerous animals. Special care has to be taken when handling them. If they are shocked, so be it. A little voltage doesnt hurt a 1200 pound animal. It simply surprises them into moving. The bulls I have worked with that are used in the rodeo circuit are treated very well. When not bucking they are pets. The bulls and other animals used for entertainment are cared for. They make the owners money and mistreating them would only hurt the animal. An injured animal does not make money. Brokeback mountain does not depict what a real cowboy is..not even close. The movie only won awards so not to cause controversy in the homosexual community. I worked on a ranch in Wyoming for 5 months. I know what its like to be a cowboy. Anyone who sits in an office and plays on a computer would not understand the concept of being a COWBOY. It does not make them an idiot, bonehead, or anything less than a man. They struggle and work hard for everything they have. And in my eyes that makes them more of a man that any of you will ever be. The world would be less controversial if people would not speak their minds if they are uneducated about the issues they stand so strongly about.