A video has surfaced of multiple acts of animal cruelty and endangerment at a rodeo in New Zealand. In the video, calves and adult cows are seen apparently being shocked with electric prods, which breaks the code the rodeo supposedly adheres to. Calves are also allegedly being thrown onto the ground and forcefully wrestled down as is common in calf roping events. These animals are being treated terribly all for the sake of human entertainment. This needs to be stopped.
The government of New Zealand has to create new restrictions on rodeos and how they treat the animals in their custody. No animals deserve to be treated this way, and especially not for pure human entertainment.
Sign this petition to make sure New Zealand starts protecting their rodeo animals.
Dear Prime Minister Key,
A rodeo in New Zealand has recently been exposed for beating and electrocuting animals in their care. The rodeo claims that it adheres to the Rodeo Code of Welfare, but they seem to be openly violating it. Last year a committee in your government opted to put no restrictions on rodeos, this even though in 2015 the Ministry for Primary Industries filmed at least seven rodeos breaking the codes which they supposedly follow.
Your government must reform its laws on rodeos, and ban certain activities, if not the practice entirely. Much of the population in your country has already made clear they support a ban on rodeos. Why not support the values of your citizens, instead of supporting this harmful and inhumane industry? Animals are being beaten and degraded every day that these rodeos continue to function how they are.
Use your power to protect the animals in rodeos. Show the population that you support their interests over a select few. Force these rodeos to reform their treatment of animals, or shut them down.
Sincerely,
