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Los Angeles rodeo clowns hide behind girls riding sidesaddle

December 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Rodeo, Spectacles Tagged With: Bill Pickett, charreada, escaramuza, Merritt Clifton, Protect The Harvest, Steve Hindi, Western Justice, Western Sports Industry Coalition

Boone County “Mexican rodeo” bucks Mexican rodeo rules

November 6, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, USA, Working horses Tagged With: charreada, charro, Diane Zimmerman, Drew Bliss, Janet Enoch, Karla M. Maville, Merritt Clifton, Mexican Federation of Charreria, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness. Steve Hindi

“Steer-tailing” is even more brutal than “horse tripping”

March 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles Tagged With: charreada, Eric Mills

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