End Cruel Festival Where Children Slaughter Snakes And Fingerprint With Their Blood!

Can you believe these people are teaching their children to kill snakes and then paint with the animal's blood?!

Add your name if you want to ban this wicked festival once and for all!

Thousands of western diamondback rattlesnakes spend weeks without food, water, or light, at the annual Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas, according to the Sierra Club.

"Many were brought there after hunters flushed them out of their dens with gasoline, a uniquely Texan snake-hunting technique aptly called "gassing"," they added.

But the cruelty doesn't end there...

"After being dropped off at the county fairgrounds, the snakes are weighed, measured, and milked for venom before they are tossed into pits — a stressful experience for the solitary animals, which respond by biting and defecating on each other as snake handlers stir the teeming masses to prevent suffocation," according to the same source.

And then there's the worst part of all...

They get children involved in the brutality.

"For a small fee, children can try their hand at stripping snake skins and add their bloody hand-prints to the event's mural," said the Sierra Club.

"The event is billed as "Fun for the whole family"," reported CNN.

Why on Earth would they do this?

So they claim, because it gives children "the tools they need to build the bridges of success".

How could teaching a child to commit an act of cruelty for fun, or desensitizing them to the death of living things, possibly help them be successful in life?

This horrible event is a disaster for the environment as well.

"In Texas, residents prefer pumping gasoline fumes (and, often, straight liquids) into the critter's burrow, producing the escape response.

"The act of gassing has serious consequences for the environment, says John Jensen, senior wildlife biologist for Georgia's Department of Natural Resources," reported Popular Science.

The same source went on to say: "John Davis is the director of the wildlife diversity program in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. For six years, he and his team researched rattlesnake roundups and their affect on the environment.

"The main reason? Rare-karst invertebrates.

"These spiders, beetles, and other small bugs are exceedingly rare. They live in the subterranean nooks and crannies of Texas's groundwater system (called a karst), so most people have never seen one.

"But their extreme ecological niche means one population in one Texas county might well be the only population of that species in the entire world.

"When gasoline sprayed across the surface of the earth seeps into their underground worlds, they die."

Whole species could be wiped out these absurd practice of pumping gasoline and fumes into the ground.

You know it's time to end this outrageous behavior.

But it's not enough to stop snake hunters from gassing. The cruelty to the snakes must end as well.

Texas State House Member, Sarah Davis, sponsored H.B. 940, a bill designed to combat animal cruelty by making the unlawful restraint of a dog a criminal offense.

That's why we're asking her to spearhead a movement in the Texas legislature that would ban the Rattlesnake Roundup once and for all.

Don't you want to stop this cruel, heartless practice of causing snakes to suffer needlessly, just so children can kill them and finger paint with their blood?

Then add your name to ask Texas State House Member, Sarah Davis, to take action to ban this festival forever!