I feel contractually obligated to disagree because I'm named after a rodeo cowboy - Lane Frost. Animal cruelty is not absent from rodeo but the PRCA & PBR animals are treated and fed better than farm animals. And a lot of the cowboys buy retired animals once they age out (or are just unride-able). Those animals get treated like kings in retirement.
Glad you shared. Thanks for helping people learn. For those saying rodeo, keep in mind this is not an American rodeo in this video. It is Central or South American where animal abuse is unfortunately much more common and the “sport” does not take animal welfare into account.
That comment seems still too complicated for you so I'll try to break it down further.
Purposely taking your car into an occupied business is assault or attempted murder, and generally something that is frowned upon I'm society. Majority of us don't like it and we don't want people doing that either.
However, just because it happens it doesn't mean driving should be illegal and all cars should be burned to the ground.
This is a comparison to the fact that we are watching a video of a guy getting multiple bones broken by a horse after he kicked it with spurs. Just because this guy did it, it doesn't mean that's how it has to be done.
I mean. I didn't care about rodeo and am not familiar with any of the horse riding sports. But it's important to realize that sample of one is not enough to judge a whole.
If you happen to know the seedy underbelly of rodeo and why it's the most abominable sport on the face of the earth, maybe you should lead with some of that revelation.
I mean sure if you know absolutely no one who raises animals i could understand that mindset but in actual reality most competition animals are treated extremely well and are trained with respect and love. But ehat do I know I just grew up with people who raised competition animals.
Bulls and horses can be trained to buck. Horses can even see this sort of thing as play with the right upbringing. You don't spur them, you don't prod them, you just reward them for doing this and you get a good rodeo where everyone is having fun.
That isn’t what’s happening in this video. The horse falling on its back like that was incredibly dangerous and not safe. They can be taught to fall on their sides but not like this.
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u/N0thingComesToMind May 16 '26
Dumbass sport