Animals Rights/Welfare

Help Fight Against Animal Right's Groups Plot to End Animal Entertainment!
[Feb. 5, 2009] We need to support the circuses becuse the ultimate goal is to outlaw all forms of animal entertainment - including rodeo! Please VOTE in this poll. Remember Rodeo Attitude's motto - "Animals' Right To Work - Freedom From Extinction"

Barbaro's Legacy Lives In His Brother
[Jan. 29, 2009] Note from RA - This is what we are up against. They aren't even getting the tip of the iceburg. Common sense went out the window with horse slaughter! Be informed!

Obama's animal guy
[Jan. 17, 2009] Cass Sunstein is a thoughtful legal scholar, and a solid choice for his new job in the Obama administration reviewing regulations.

Is Obama appointing an 'animal rights zealot' to high office?
[Jan. 17, 2009] Perhaps discussion about the ethical treatment of animals is going to be higher on the new administration's agenda than one might think? On an average day my e-box is filled with partisan screeds from a broad spectrum. And usually I roll my eyes at the more extreme claims and go on with my day.

Exposed: The Secret Animal Rights Agenda Of America's Next Regulatory Czar
[Jan. 15, 2009] Barack Obama's pick for "regulatory czar," Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein, may be the incoming president's most popular appointment so far.

Denver rodeo bars use of electric prods on broncs
[Jan. 7, 2009] Colorado's premier rodeo won't use electric prods this year to get uncooperative broncs out of the chute and bucking.

Proposed rodeo legislation called 'compromise'
[Aug. 28, 2008] Legislation to be voted on next Tuesday at the Putnam Legislature's regular monthly meeting will probably not ban rodeos from performing in Putnam County - but will legislate against abuse and cruelty to animals.

A Letter to the Editor of Rodeo Attitude
[Aug. 21, 2008] The following is a Letter to the Edtor regarding Animal Rights and my Christian beliefs we were requested to publish and my response. By Response by Cindy Meyers, Rodeo Attitude

Leave our rodeo alone
[Aug. 11, 2008] WITH claims by animal activists the Warwick Rodeo "seriously mistreated" animals, cowboys like Scott Glasby have come to the event's defence with the truism "if they weren't in the rodeo they would be in a burger".

Rodeo lawsuit against animal-rights group tossed
[Jul. 29, 2008] CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A federal judge in Wyoming has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the booking company for a Cheyenne rodeo against an animal-rights group. U.S. District Judge William Downes ruled that the lawsuit by the Nebraska-based Romeo Entertainment Group was not filed in the correct state.

Rodeo: What would Jesus think?
[Jul. 29, 2008] The article starts "CNW/ - The Vancouver Humane Society (VHS) is asking Christians in Abbotsford, B.C., whether Jesus Christ would condone the treatment of animals in the city's Mighty Fraser Rodeo which starts this week (July 31-August 4)." My answer - By Cindy Meyers, Rodeo Attitude

Animal rights group targets popular rodeo
[Jul. 22, 2008] This article on MSNBC.com is about animals animal rights activists targeting Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. It includes a poll on this issue. You can only vote once, so please vote NO and forward to your friends.

No prods allowed, Rodeo says
[Jul. 11, 2008] Pikes Peak or Bust Foundation President Rob Alexander said the rodeo bars livestock contractors from using electronic prods and any artificial stimulant for livestock. Such a rule is stricter than the Colorado Springs-based Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association regulation that allows electronic prods to the hips and shoulders when an animal is stalled in a chute.

Rodeo Funding Angers Animal-Rights Groups
[Jul. 7, 2008] ANIMAL-RIGHTS groups are angry the Queensland Government is spending up to $50,000 to promote an event they say is "blatantly cruel".