So why does CBC keep broadcasting it?
The 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 stated that the Stampede is “a longstanding Canadian tradition and is popular with millions of Canadians across this country.”
Yet public polling over the years shows that a majority of Canadians are opposed to the use of animals in rodeos.
Public polling shows that a majority of Canadians are opposed to the use of animals in rodeo. Another poll that the VHS commissioned indicates that removal of the rodeo and chuckwagon events from the Calgary Stampede program would have virtually no impact on attendance rates and would bring in new crowds.
During the 2015 Calgary Stampede, the VHS launched a petition calling on CBC to end its broadcast of the Stampede rodeo. This petition was supported by 24,119 animal allies.
The VHS continues to call for an end to inhumane rodeo events and the deadly chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede.
Let CBC Sports know that you are among millions of Canadians opposed to rodeo – and you are in the majority. Tell them to stop putting cruelty on our television screens and calling it a sport.
Please support the Vancouver Humane Society’s continuing campaign against rodeo cruelty. Thanks to supporters, the VHS has been able to successfully advocate for a ban on rodeo in the City of Vancouver, District of North Vancouver, and Port Moody. The VHS and other organizations and advocates has also won victories against the Cloverdale Rodeo in Surrey and the Luxton Rodeo on Vancouver Island. Your donation will help the VHS continue this crucial work.
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.