Original sentence: Animal cruelty in rodeos needs to be explored, but greater understanding of stock and stock handling would help focus the debate on the areas in which abuse is more likely to occur.Much of the criticism is incorrectly drawn to the spectacular, but generally harmless (to the animals) rough stock events: bull riding, bareback bronc riding and saddle bronc riding.The rodeo associations have made some changes to reduce the chances of injury, such as requiring older, heavier calves for calf roping, larger steers for steer wrestling and many rodeos no longer have steer roping.The timed events such as calf roping and especially steer roping pose a greater likelihood of injury to the animals
Edited sentence: Animal Abuse Inherent in Rodeo: SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK).Haber, a veterinarian who spent 30 years as a United States federal meat inspector, described the animals discarded from rodeos for slaughter as being.I have seen animals with six to eight ribs broken from the spine and, at times, puncturing the lungs.I have seen as much as 2 to 3 gallons of free blood accumulated under the detached skin.Rodeo Cruelty video: undercover video from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.Such disregard of our moral obligations toward other living creatures has a negative impact on society as a whole and on impressionable children in particular.“so extensively bruised that the only areas in which the skin was attached [to the flesh] were the head, neck, leg, and belly