Rodeo Morals and Ethics
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A cowgirl has worked all year to make it to the National Finals Rodeo. She has already won five-hundred thousand dollars thoughout the year, and now she has the chance to win another five-hundred thousand at this ten day rodeo alone, and to be crowned the World Champion Barrel Racer.
The gate opens and her and her horse explode out into the arena. Seventeen thousand fans cheer her on as she turns those barrels, but then just as she was turning the last barrel everything became and blur, she opened her eyes and saw the ceiling fan spinning.
The National Finals Rodeo was going to be today, but Animal Rights claimed that rodeo was cruel and unethical and rodeo was banned in America.
Critic like SHARK, PETA, and Animal Rights speak of an inherent cruelty in rodeo; that say rodeo is not able to not be cruel to animals and that the very nature of rodeo is to be cruel to animals, but those kind of comments are contrary to a rodeo`s origin. Animal Rights say it is cruel and rodeo associations explain rodeo and prove it is anything but cruel, but they ignore it. Associations show them the lives and care of animals, but they refuse to acknowledge it.
Rodeo has a unique quality of origin that no other sport can lay claim too. It came from an industry, from the daily routine and tasks of a low paying job with long hours performed by ranch hands who came to know the animals with which they lived with very well...