Brutal and bruising rodeo blues

Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania were on display showing some of the bruises that can be expected during this cruel event.

“Rodeos are a blood sport in which a spectacle is made of bruising and battering of non-human animals. The record shows that broken bones, bruises and animal blues are what these events are all about. Whether it is a bucking bull with a broken back, or a roped calf whose neck breaks as it crashes to the ground, it is all brutal and barbaric.” declared Clare Knight, spokesperson for Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania (AACT).

Calf roping can result in broken necks or legs, torn ligaments, disc rupture, tissue damage or haemorrhaging. Bucking bulls and horses can end up with broken legs or backs, bloodied wounds, and soft tissue injuries.

Ms Knight continued: “Rodeos cause anxiety, pain and sometimes death to bulls, horses and calves involved. This is all about humans trying to create entertainment at the expense of animals that are suffering in extreme pain. We will be a depiction of that battering, wearing bruises that highlight the need to stop this brutality.”

AACT protested at the Ulverstone Rodeo at 7pm on Saturday 22nd January bearing the bruises caused by rodeo battering.