Cultural defenses of steer-tailing and bullfighting ignore both U.S. anti-cruelty laws and 456 years of Catholic prohibition BELVIDERE, Illinois; LOS ANGELES, California––Responded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi to the December 6, 2023 report Los Angeles council vote against rodeo opens new fight against charreada, which also mentioned that a Boone County, […]
Los Angeles council vote against rodeo opens new fight against charreada
Will the Los Angeles ordinance really stop steer-tailing & other rodeo mayhem? LOS ANGELES, California; BELVIDERE, Illinois––The Los Angeles City Council on December 5, 2023 voted 14-0 to ban rodeos within the city, nominally resolving a multi-year debate but actually referring the most heated issues to a three-member panel for further debate. (See Los Angeles […]
How global campaign against greyhound racing got to the home stretch
Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog that Inspired a Movement by Christine A. Dorchak & Carey Theil 224 pages. $8.99 Kindle; $17.96 paperback. Lantern Publishing & Media, P.O. Box 1350, Woodstock, NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Don’t judge this book by the cover. The pastel […]
Robert Card: Maine deer hunter goes berserk, kills 18 people plus himself
Three days later Card could have shot up the Maine countryside legally, if he only killed the bag limit of deer LISBON FALLS, Maine––Robert Card, 40, a lifelong deer hunter, shot 18 people dead, wounding 13 others, at the Sparetime Recreation bowling alley and then at the nearby Schemengees Bar & Grille in Lewiston, […]
Charreada steer-tailing & horse-tripping defense flunks history, art, & logic
Purported “historical” defense of steer-tailing & horse-tripping misrepresents sources For about as long as it took Mexican American Classic Charrería Organization founder and president Edward F. Ramirez to send ANIMALS 24-7 an email back on October 3, 2023, Ramirez appeared to make common cause with Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in denouncing charreada animal abuse. […]
D.C. political dogfight upstages bust of Pentagon flack for dogfighting
Bust may help to push the “Fighting Inhumane Gambling & High-Risk Trafficking Act,” or “FIGHT Act,” to passage WASHINGTON, D.C.––Political dogfighting over the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and who might succeed him quickly pushed from the headlines the dogfighting bust in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, involving the most prominent person since the Michael […]
Charreada horse beater Christofer Dorado charged in Joliet, Illinois
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness video shows what Dorado did. Court to decide if beatings were crimes. JOLIET, Illinois––The People of the State of Illinois, represented by the 12th Judicial Circuit Court in Joliet, county seat for Will County, on October 3, 2023 brought two misdemeanor cruelty charges against horse-beater Christofer Dorado, of Batavia, Illinois. […]
New Balance to hop out of the kangaroo leather shoe business
Kangaroos jump for joy Down Under WASHINGTON D.C.; BOSTON, Massachusetts––“The athletic wear giant New Balance informed the Center for a Humane Economy yesterday that it has altered its sourcing policies and that the company will phase out its use of kangaroo skins and halt sales of kangaroo-based shoes by next December,” emailed Center for a […]
Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?
Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event OMAK, Washington––The 89th edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak, Washington, is to conclude on August 13, 2023, as the final event of the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo. Checking to see how many horses died at Omak this […]
Can the Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act save horse racing from itself?
Marty Irby leaves Animal Wellness Action on a high note, but horses are not drugged just to get them high WASHINGTON D.C.––Former Animal Wellness Action executive director Marty Irby on March 23, 2023 spoke in Oxford, Mississippi at the “Celebration of Life” for his friend and ally Clant Seay, founder of the Citizens Committee Against […]