So why does CBC keep broadcasting it?
VHS has long criticized CBC Sports for broadcasting the Calgary Stampede rodeo. The CBC has refused to end its coverage despite the clear evidence that animals suffer in rodeos. They’ve told us that the Stampede is “a longstanding Canadian tradition and is popular with millions of Canadians across this country.”
Really? The facts show that when you ask Canadians across this country how they feel about rodeo, most of them are opposed to it.
A new national public opinion survey on animal welfare issues shows only three in ten (31%) Canadians are in favour of using animals in rodeos. The survey, by polling company Insights West, found that a solid majority of Canadians (63%) are opposed to rodeos and that Alberta is the only province with a majority (57%) in favour of rodeo.
VHS has relayed the results of the poll to management at CBC Sports and is awaiting a response. During the 2015 Calgary Stampede, VHS launched a petition calling on CBC to end its broadcast of the Stampede rodeo. If you haven’t signed the petition, please do. More than 11,000 people already have.
Let CBC Sports know that you are among millions of Canadians opposed to rodeo – and you are in the majority. Remind them that this is the 21st century and animal abuse has no place in modern Canada. Tell them that causing animals to suffer for the sake of entertainment is immoral. Tell them to stop putting cruelty on our television screens and calling it a sport.
Please support our continuing campaign against rodeo cruelty. We convinced the City of Vancouver to ban rodeo and we’ve won victories against the Cloverdale Rodeo in Surrey and the Luxton Rodeo on Vancouver Island. Your donation will help us win more!
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4 replies on “Poll: Most Canadians oppose rodeo”
An organization like the CBC should know better than to be capitalizing on animals’ misery for sport.
Those are babies, do you have any realization of the cruelty inflicted upon these small animals, and to broadcast such abusive action against a defenseless young one? It is barbaric, cruel, sad..too many words to describe such a lack of empathy and care for a…baby…and one can see the distress in their eyes…I wish to see you in their place.
STOP THIS IS PURE CRUELTY MUST BE PENALIZED!!!!!!!!!!!! POOR BABYS POOR PEOPLE IGNORANT AND CRUEL !!!!!!!!!!!!
CBC knows better than this but the money behind the rodeo makes the call. I will never sign another petition supporting CBC.