Vancouver interdit les rodéos

[Animal 0]

16 mai 2006- Vancouver est la première ville canadienne à interdire ce genre de "spectacles".

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

Ceci vient tout juste d'être interdit aujourd'hui ? Fantastique ! Et j'espère qu'il y aura d'autres villes qui prendront la même décision.

[Animal 0]

c'est tout récent ! Ce qui est fantastique dans cette nouvelle, c'est que les rodéos ont été interdits uniquement parce que c'est une activité qui est cruelle envers les animaux. Oui, j'espère aussi qu'ils seront interdits dans bien d'autres villes du Canada

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

Oui, c'est vraiment un fait à souligner. On dirait que le monde s'améliore petit à petit. Ça donne un peu d'espoir.

[hop 0]

Très bonne nouvelle ! Bravo Vancouver

[Ranëwen 0]

Une bonne nouvelle de temps en temps, ça fait du bien !

[Ranëwen 0]

Animal, où as-tu entendu ou lu cette nouvelle ? Je cherche un lien pour ma mère mais je ne trouve pas autre chose qu'un article du 15 mai qui dit que la loi doit être passée le lendemain mais pour la journée du 16, ils ne font aucun commentaire et ne parlent pas du résultat de ce vote.
Sur Google, je ne trouve rien non plus.

[Animal 0]

Voici cette nouvelle Ranewën, ... in English


Media Release
For Immediate Release

May 16, 2006

Vancouver first city in Canada to ban rodeo


Humane Society says decision should send message to Surrey’s Cloverdale Rodeo
Vancouver City Council’s decision to ban rodeo events in the city, the first of its kind in Canada, is a victory for the humane treatment of animals, says the Vancouver Humane Society (VHS). The council voted at its May 16 meeting to prohibit a number of inhumane rodeo activities, which, in effect, will prevent rodeos from ever taking place in Vancouver.

“This decision enhances Vancouver’s reputation as a progressive city with heart,” said VHS spokesperson Peter Fricker. “It shows that Vancouver will no longer tolerate the abuse of animals for entertainment.”

VHS hopes the ban will send a message to other communities that rodeo is no longer acceptable in modern society. “We hope Surrey City Council will follow Vancouver’s lead and phase out the Cloverdale Rodeo,” said Fricker. VHS has proposed to Surrey council that the rodeo be replaced with a country music festival – a proposal backed by the BC SPCA.

Rodeo last took place in Vancouver in 1997, but VHS was concerned that the rodeo industry might attempt to use the 2010 Winter Olympics as an opportunity to showcase itself. Rodeo was featured in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City as one of the cultural events, despite protests from the public and animal protection groups.

“Rodeo is based on animals’ reactions to pain, fear and stress,” said Fricker. “It’s animal abuse, plain and simple. We’re glad it will never happen in Vancouver again.”

For more information call Peter Fricker or Debra Probert at 604-266-9744.

http://www.vancouverhumanesociety.bc.ca/announcements_16May06.html

[Animal 0]

REGARDEZ-MOI CES VRAIS HOMMES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ranëwen 0]

Merci Animal xox

Des "vras de vras" certain

[Animal 0]

video du Cloverdale Rodeo in British Columbia

La terreur dans les yeux de ces pauvres animaux est difficile à regarder !

Franchement ! Quel sport de débiles !

[Animal 0]

C'était trop beau pour être vrai !
La Vancouver Humane Society et la B.C. Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals étaient-ils trop confiants ? Il semblerait bien que oui ! Pour le moment en tous les cas !

..........


May 20, 2006 - Globe and Mail

Rodeo spurs animal-rights furor
Groups call for end to popular Surrey event
EVA SALINAS

VANCOUVER -- One of Canada's largest rodeos opens its gates this weekend, but
while cowboys wrestle bulls in a Surrey arena, animal-welfare groups are asking
for the show to be put down for good.
An estimated 100,000 people are expected to flock to the annual Cloverdale Rodeo
and Country Fair, where the world's top cowboys and cowgirls will compete
through Monday. Along with the support of bucking enthusiasts, though, comes
criticism from groups that say the rodeo should be phased out, citing abuse of
show animals and society's dying interest in rodeos.

The rodeo -- which marks its 60th anniversary this year -- is going ahead
despite objections from the Vancouver Humane Society and the B.C. Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
On May 8, Surrey city council heard from the two groups. In a letter, the SPCA
asked the city to consider phasing out the rodeo completely in favour of an
expanded fair. Representatives from the humane society asked that some events --
such as tie-down calf-roping and wild-cow milking -- either be changed or
discontinued. Council didn't agree to either request.

Still, the groups are undeterred.

"It definitely is a lot calmer than it used to be because they [rodeos] are
under a microscope here in Greater Vancouver," said Debra Probert, executive
director of the Vancouver Humane Society. A wild-horse racing event was phased
out a few years ago, to the organization's approval. "In spite of that, animals
are hurt all the time," Ms. Probert said.

Yesterday, protesters carrying photos of animals in the rodeo ring demonstrated
outside the Surrey fairgrounds; they represented Liberation BC, an
animal-protection group that boasts 500 members across the Lower Mainland.
"Let's make the 60th year the last," said Ashley Fruno, the group's campaign
organizer.

Operators of the Cloverdale Rodeo, which is based in Surrey, counter that it is
a world leader in its treatment of animals and that with events so popular they
have to turn people away, there are no plans to make any changes, let alone stop
operating.

Laura Ballance, spokeswoman for the rodeo, said animal injuries at the rodeo are
extremely rare. Last year, with 19,000 "exposures" -- essentially, times when an
animal is in the ring -- there were no fatalities and about 40 incidents of
injury, she said.

Surrey Councillor Linda Hepner, who is a board member of the Lower Fraser Valley
Exhibition Association, which owns the fairgrounds, said the rodeo and fair is a
huge financial benefit for the area, generating an average $3-million each year.

But when asked about photographs Ms. Probert displayed at the council meeting
two weeks ago, which were of animals during a Cloverdale rodeo event, Ms. Hepner
said they "were not pretty pictures."

She said council is now looking at how animals are treated at rodeos in other
cities.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/feedback/?form=lettersToTheEditorForm&articleHead\
line=Rodeo+spurs+animal-rights+furor

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

Mais ce n'est pas à Vancouver que les rodeos devraient être interdits ?

[Animal 0]

Oui animo, mais je suppose que Surrey fait partie de l'Île de Vancouver

[animo-aequoanimo 0]

C'est peut-être une banlieue avec son maire et qui n'a rien à voir avec la ville de Vancouver, alors.

[Animal 0]

Je ne sais pas animo ! C'est compliqué leur affaire !
Attendons de voir ce qui suivra de la Vancouver Humane Society

[Caro18 0]

It's a pity CNE was roped into rodeo

What a shame that the Canadian National Exhibition has seen fit to host a display of animal abuse as part of its entertainment program this year. The CNE has announced with great fanfare that "rodeo is back," welcoming a corporate-sponsored rodeo, the Dodge Rodeo Tour, into Toronto.

Unfortunately, Toronto hasn't taken a moral stand on the issue of animal rodeo cruelty, as Vancouver did when it banned rodeo in the city in 2006. Vancouver's city council accepted the clear evidence that rodeo events cause unnecessary suffering to animals. The bylaw passed unanimously and without any public protest, perhaps an indication of Vancouverites' distaste for spectacles of animal cruelty.

The city of Surrey in B.C. saw yet another sign of aversion to rodeo when its Cloverdale Rodeo bowed to public pressure and eliminated four key rodeo events (calf roping, steer wrestling, wild cow milking and team roping). The move followed the death of a calf and a steer during roping events in recent years.

Cloverdale is one of Canada's biggest rodeos and the elimination of the four events sent shock waves through the North American rodeo industry. A debate began in rodeo circles about whether some events, like calf roping, were sustainable in the face of changing social attitudes.

Even the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA) realized Cloverdale's decision was a warning. The CPRA president told members: "We cannot ignore the reality of what occurred. Our world is changing and we must change or risk losing some things that are very important to us."

So the CNE's decision to host a rodeo seems to fly in the face of what appears to be growing disquiet about whether the "sport" is humane, as rodeo promoters insist it is. They like to portray opposition as being confined to a few animal rights activists. In fact, all mainstream animal welfare groups in Canada, including the provincial SPCAs, oppose rodeo. The B.C. SPCA has even called on the public to boycott the events.

So what exactly is inhumane about rodeo? First, there is the fact that fear, pain and distress are used to motivate animals to perform for human amusement.

Consider calf roping. A young animal is goaded to come out of a chute at high speed, has a rope thrown around its neck and is jerked to a violent halt before being picked up and slammed to the ground. Can anyone truthfully say this is a painless experience for the calf? Imagine this happening to a dog or primate just to amuse a crowd.

The reason rodeo horses and bulls buck is because of "flank straps" tied around their hindquarters that cause irritation and stress. They buck because they want the strap and the rider off. If they were "born to buck," as rodeo promoters say, then why the flank strap?

Steer wrestling involves a cowboy twisting the head of the steer until it keels over. The steer naturally resists, creating a grotesque scene of a man literally bending an animal to his will. That's how the steer in Cloverdale died – its neck was broken.

Whatever the event, no one can say rodeo animals perform without coercion. Even if pain were not a factor, fear is certainly an inhumane motivator.

The animal behaviourist Dr. Temple Grandin has written that fear is "so bad" for animals that it is worse than pain. And she is no bleeding heart – she designs slaughterhouses for the beef industry.

The rodeo industry trots out inane arguments to defend its activities, i.e. flank straps merely "tickle" the animals and the animals have thick hides so they don't feel pain. Often, they pull out the "heritage" card claiming that rodeo is a demonstration of historical ranching skills. Most of this is baloney. Why would a real cowboy ride a bull?

The difference between rodeo and traditional ranching is that no one ever timed a cowboy's work with a stopwatch and handed out huge sums of money for being the fastest. It's this pressure that puts the animals under stress and at risk of injury.

Out on the range, calves were roped when they needed "doctoring." It was done with care and with their welfare in mind. Who can believe that is what happens when a calf hits the end of a rope in a rodeo arena?

Rodeo is low and sensational entertainment sold as nostalgia for the Old West. It is a pity the CNE bought it. Anyone who has compassion for animals should not.

Peter Fricker is communications director of the Vancouver Humane Society.
http://www.torontohumanesociety.com/newsandevents/stories/2008/08-08h.asp#0808h_cont