Comcast Tortures and Kills Animals

Next time you pay another exorbitant Comcast bill, think first about what the company does with your money. Comcast, a major provider of internet and video services, sponsors rodeos. Rodeos are inherent animal cruelty, pure and simple. Baby calves are violently roped by their necks and slammed to the ground as they run up to 27 miles per hour. "Bucking" straps are placed around the sensitive part of bulls' abdomens to inflict pain, causing them to buck wildly. Animals are shocked and tormented in the chute so that they run out into the arena. The list of cruelty goes on and on. A rodeo contestant said of bucking straps and electric prods, "If you can't use those devices, then you have no rodeo" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Dec. 26, 2000). Injuries and deaths to the animals are common in rodeos. In fact, C.G. Haber, DVM once said he has seen rodeo animals with broken ribs and punctured lungs.

Leading humane organizations including The Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA, The Humane Society of Canada, and World Society for the Protection of Animals oppose rodeos.

A simple search online reveals Comcast sponsors rodeos such as California Rodeo Salinas, Lynden Rodeo, and Penn Valley Rodeo.

Sign the petition if you live in the U.S.  Then, no matter where you live, write Comcast and tell them to stop sponsoring rodeos:

Brian Roberts

President and CEO

Comcast Corporation

One Comcast Center

Philadelphia, PA 19103-2838

Phone:  215-665-1700

Fax:  215-981-7790

Detreon_Roberts@cable.comcast.com

We_Can_Help@cable.comcast.com

Next time you pay another exorbitant Comcast bill, think first about what the company does with your money. Comcast, a major provider of internet and video services, sponsors rodeos. Rodeos are inherent animal cruelty, pure and simple. Baby calves are violently roped by their necks and slammed to the ground as they run up to 27 miles per hour. "Bucking" straps are placed around the sensitive part of bulls' abdomens to inflict pain, causing them to buck wildly. Animals are shocked and tormented in the chute so that they run out into the arena. The list of cruelty goes on and on. A rodeo contestant said of bucking straps and electric prods, "If you can't use those devices, then you have no rodeo" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Dec. 26, 2000). Injuries and deaths to the animals are common in rodeos. In fact, C.G. Haber, DVM once said he has seen rodeo animals with broken ribs and punctured lungs.

Leading humane organizations including The Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA, The Humane Society of Canada, and World Society for the Protection of Animals oppose rodeos.

A simple search online reveals Comcast sponsors rodeos such as California Rodeo Salinas, Lynden Rodeo, and Penn Valley Rodeo.

Sign the petition if you live in the U.S.  Then, no matter where you live, write Comcast and tell them to stop sponsoring rodeos:

Brian Roberts

President and CEO

Comcast Corporation

One Comcast Center

Philadelphia, PA 19103-2838

Phone:  215-665-1700

Fax:  215-981-7790

Detreon_Roberts@cable.comcast.com

We_Can_Help@cable.comcast.com

We, the undersigned, urge Comcast to end its sponsorship of rodeos.  Rodeos are inherent animal cruelty, pure and simple.  Rodeos take docile animals and try to make them seem aggressive.  Bulls and horses are tormented in the chutes prior to release into the ring.  They are forced to wear bucking straps, and the rider uses spurs, which dig into the animals' flesh.  Investigators at The Humane Society of the United States have documented rodeo participants across the country using electric prods, flank straps, sharpened sticks, and other pain inflicting devices to frighten animals into performing.  Human and animal injuries are common, due to the violence of these events.  One rodeo cowboy said of bucking straps and electric prods, "If you can't use those devices, then you have no rodeo" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Dec. 26, 2000).

Animal experts oppose the rodeo.  The Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA, The Humane Society of Canada, and World Society for the Protection of Animals are just a few national humane organizations against rodeos.  Peggy Larson, DVM says, "Without torture, there can be no rodeo."  Dr. C.G. Haber, a veterinarian who worked for 30 years as a meat inspector in slaughterhouses, saw scores of animals discarded from rodeos and sent to slaughter. Toughened as he was to animal suffering, the condition of animals from rodeos sickened him. He described them as "so extensively bruised that the only areas in which the skin was attached (to the flesh) were the head, neck, leg, and belly. ... I have seen animals," he said, "with six to eight ribs broken from the spine and at times, puncturing the lungs. I have seen as much as two to three gallons of free blood accumulated under the detached skin. Bullfights are merciful compared to rodeos. It's high time this cruel sport be outlawed in the United States."

Please make it a permanent policy not to sponsor animal cruelty events such as rodeos.

Thank you for your time.