They are not mean. Cindy Schonholtz, the PRCA's animal welfare coordinator, said this year's rodeo is sold out. Protests by animal rights activists, like Steve Hindi, haven't affected us at all. But Hindi doesn't mind bucking a trend. Once upon a time Hindi was an avid fisherman, but now thinks even fishing is abusive.
Fish feel pain.
And he can't stand to see birds injured. Recently he frightened birds away from a private hunting sanctuary by flying over the territory in an ultralight aircraft. So he turned to filming acts of cruelty and showing them to the media and to individuals. Hindi carries around a videotape made up of a number of PRCA-sanctioned rodeos he attended this year. The tapes show men prodding animals in chutes with something.