Source: SHARK
“The rodeo industry claims it loves its animals, and claims to treat them like family. So why do rodeo stock contractors send their animals to slaughter?
In the latest example, Grant Harris, owner of the Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, New Jersey, sent nine horses to an auction which is widely known as a conduit for the horse slaughter industry. Cowtown called the horses “unproductive.”
Predictably, the horses were bought by a killer buyer. For anyone interested in the truth, that is a demonstration of how rodeos love their animals.
Cowtown is far from the first stock contractor to send horses to slaughter. Ike Sankey, owner of Sankey Rodeo Company, has admitted to the same thing. The Powder River Rodeo Company has a more direct way of dealing with the issue. Power River Rodeo, located in Wyoming, simply took their overstock of foals out to secluded public lands and shot them.
That’s how rodeo loves its animals, including horses.”
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Another example of mankind USING animals for his own greed and then throwing them away when no longer needed. Heartless cruelty which we should all be ashamed of.
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Why do rodeos have to have this bullshit going on? Aren’t there plenty of contests that would be just as entertaining? Barrel racing, pole bending, team penning, and so on. Come up with something more creative where abuse has no part in rodeo. The scared looks on those poor bucking horses is heartbreaking. Why is this violence so hard to let go? Makes me ashamed of being from the USA.
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Heartrending. I am overcome with sadness and impotence in what to do. I would like to live long enough to see the end of transportation from the US and slaughter of horses in the US and Canada.
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You have to support the people who expose these abuses. It is simply not enough to be outraged. Contact your DC rep and tell them this story. Tell them you want transport of horses to slaughter and slaughter of horses banned.
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Another one is the Harry Vold rodeo family from Colorado who BLM sold 36 of our wild horses to in 2009 (per FOIA). Harry’s brother Ralph and nephew Blair own 3 livestock auction yards in Alberta Canada – how convenient when they want to cull the horses.
Lots of information and videos of this group showing shocking horses at rodeos.
Kirsten Vold, Harry Vold’s daughter, says its OK to shock horses. False.
The prod manufacturer says its products should not be used in rodeos, and that horses should NEVER be shocked under any circumstance, as they are too sensitive.
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Don’t want to be the Devil’s advocate here, but as long as slaughter is legal this business model remains viable. Anyone selling a horse at auction has to realize slaughter is a distinct possibility, and for “loose” horses it’s an inevitability. We need to pass the SAFE Act, not vilify businesses who profit from disposable horses. We may find what they do unethical but as long as the “middle man did it” argument remains legal nothing will change. Even horses who like to buck (and are good at it) face slaughter when age catches up with them.
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One was bought off the KB..it was a Palomino 😦
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Horses r the central piece of the rodeo, however, fans with no rodeo following expirience do not realize these are Not the same animals all the time or at each showcase event, in fact, very few of these animals make it for a years worth of events ever. Very small amounts Ever get retired to home, and far less escape slaughter than believed. The horses are there for a sounding board for the performers who are the promoters, ticket agents, and riders. The flash is distracting and you dont realize this has Not been for or about the Livestock ever. The ideal horse is one that escapes injury, bucking hard, and high, and no issues behind the scenes, but we all know no athletic animals including bloodstock can handle perpetual abuse….spurs, stressful shows, constant traveling, and lack.of interest in the sport pressures them to work livestock harder. Ticket sales increase because people are watching for dangerous activities for adrenaline rush but they dont know where the horse goes once the shows over. I refuse to go to rodeos because I do not want to see future dead horses being showcased as a star, abused for ticket sales, then packaged as beef replacement. This has been an issue for years, they have denied it and state they place them in homes,.you know the green fields etc. All.for the buckle? Oh Hell no, its definitely for the money, you are competing for money, ads, and endorsements. TV exposure when they get it and whatever perks of getting to meet famous people attending rodeos. Sorry, but its hard to watch and form a bond with a bucking horse hoping hell throw the next competitor and then find out he was eaten in Japan all sponsored by my ticket purchase. No way.
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I am disgusted by what I saw. These animals were used for man’s financial gain. How is this humane? How is this right? This must be stopped! We cannot condone this anymore. Please do all you can to put a stop to this! This is inhumane in the worst of ways!
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There is 162 cosponsors in the House with the 3 that was added today. It is the Senate members that refuse to sign on to be a cosponsor. All of them need their a&s’s kicked because of this. I don’t know what can be done to force them to sign on unless you go to their town hall meetings and stand up and demand that they get the lead out and cosponsor S. 541. Get them in front of a group of their constituents and demand action.
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One of the arguments that is used (or used to be used) is that rodeo Horses have such a good life because “they only work a few minutes a year”.
This sounds pretty good to people who don’t know the rest of the story.
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Powder River Rodeo Company shoots the horses they don’t want? Don’t all pile on me at once, but I find this far more acceptable than sending them to slaughter. However, it still disgusts me that a hard working bronc is disposed of like last week’s garbage, let alone a perfectly healthy foal just because it won’t make the cut in a rodeo.
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The events will stop when people stop paying to watch them.
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