It's time to throw that type of logic out the window because it is morally reprehensible. There is a very serious moral distinction between rattlesnake roundups and hunting. While hunters shoot to kill outright for harvesting, roundups do the opposite. Rattlesnakes don't get the luxury of a quick death at the hands of the Sweetwater Jaycees or other roundup proponents. The snakes are paraded all over the place, made sport of, and are also deprived of food, water and space for several months.
Decapitation is inhumane for rattlesnakes.
The brain activity still continues for about an hour after the head has been severed. Making fun of wildlife and mistreating live animals do not fit into a wildlife conservation model any more than does unregulated commercialization. I totally agree with them. The kind of people it takes to do this to any type of wildlife is beyond reasoning. I'm tired of the lies, misinformation, butchery, illegal activities such as gassing, and the ruthlessness of these Roman circuses held in America.