Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association fines team roping star Jade Corkill $2,000; no entity associated with charreada does anything at all JOLIET, Illinois––Every Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] video of charreada, or “Mexican-style” rodeo, shows intense abuse of steers and horses. Even by that miserable standard, the gratuitous violence demonstrated by one particular charro at […]
Why agribusiness owns humane law enforcement, both here & abroad
Agriculture departments do not do their job of protecting animals because this is not the job they exist to do ALBERTON, South Africa; GENEVA, Illinois––Can an arm of government established to promote animal agribusiness ever be trusted to enforce humane laws? For example, will agriculture departments ever adequately enforce laws governing the shipment of […]
Los Angeles rodeo clowns hide behind girls riding sidesaddle
And behind anyone else who ever once rode a horse or trained a dog LOS ANGELES––Why are macho cowpokes and bull-riders, many with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks, abruptly playing up what they term in campaign literature “the rich cultural history of California rodeo”? To translate, rodeo promoters and participants are suddenly hiding behind […]
Boone County “Mexican rodeo” bucks Mexican rodeo rules
If Boone County mayhem is “Mexican culture,” why doesn’t it follow the Mexican rulebook? BELVIDERE, Illinois––Two months of pretense by public officials in Boone County, Illinois, that violent abuse of steers and horses at local charreada or Mexican-style participant rodeos can be defended as part of Mexican-American culture appeared to disintegrate on November 3, 2022 […]
“Steer-tailing” is even more brutal than “horse tripping”
The California State Legislative Counsel Bureau on February 6, 2014 issued a legal opinion on “steer tailing,” a standard event in charreada, or Mexican-style rodeo. The legal opinion concludes: “To summarize, the practice of steer tailing is not prohibited per se by the animal cruelty laws (of California.) It is our opinion, however, that…a court, […]