Sujet : Coca-Cola, STOP aux blessures et aux tueries d'animaux
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To Whom It May Concern:
Coca-Cola once had a policy against sponsoring animal cruelty events such as rodeos. Sadly, now Coca-Cola has discontinued that
policy and is sponsoring animal cruely again. I urge Coca-Cola to make it a permanent policy not to sponsor rodeos. Rodeos are
inherently cruel towards animals, pure and simple. Rodeos take docile animals and attempt making 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. Animal injuries are common due to the violence of these events. It has even been documented that 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, ASPCA, The Humane Society of Canada, and World Society for
the Protection of Animals are just a few national and international 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."
Complaints about rodeos are forwarded to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), which sends the complainant a "soothing"
letter saying that PRCA's "humane rules" protect the animals. Actually, these rules are worthless; they are rarely enforced, and
when they are, the fines imposed on the cowboys are so small as to be meaningless in comparison to the big prize money being vied
for.
Just as one example of cruelty at a rodeo, Cheyenne Frontier Days, which Coca-Cola sponsors, is notorious for abusing animals. An
article in Wyoming Tribune Eage
( http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/import-108327.txt ) says animals were shocked with a Hot-Shot at Cheyenne and
the PCRA does little or nothing. Video footage of a steer being dragged at the 2007 Cheyenne Frontier Days is viewable at
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