If you re from a foreign country such as Japan, Germany, or Los Angeles, you may not have heard that rodeos are evil. Rodeo animals, say American animal cuddlers, suffer bruises, broken bones, and low self-esteem from being roughly treated in America s best sport. There s a lot more to rodeo than just a bunch of uneducated yahoos being mean to cows.
Rodeo is a rough sport because it originated from a rough lifestyle.
Its sole intent was and is to show animals larger than minivans exactly who s the boss. Rodeo is America, and nobody in America ever eked out a living by driving herds of footballs or tennis balls to market for thirty bucks a month. The idea behind a rodeo is not to kill cows. It s to subdue cows so you can do things to them- branding, castration and artificial insemination. Someone had to go out in the blowing sand and blistering sun to keep cows from falling off cliffs and getting eaten by wolves.