Moorcroft, Wyoming just had its 9th annual chicken roping event at Dewey's Bar and Grill. This event is so absurd that it might be the last one left in the state known as "Like no place on Earth."
Not a species is safe from human exploitation…this is horrific, despicable, and outrageous. But hey, at least they’re good people 🙃 they just don’t know any better lol great work exposing this, can’t be easy sitting idly by, among monsters, while this happens.
It took enormous courage to go to that terrible place and sit among such people, but now the documentation is in the public domain for good. For more on chicken roping, including the one we got cancelled in New Mexico in 2000, please visit http://www.upc-online.org/entertainment. The sponsor of that event admitted they could not guarantee that no chickens would be harmed by being roped.
And we dare call ourselves Homo SAPIENS (sic), the single most destructive and only SELF-destructive species on the planet, to the detriment of all others.
From a Wyoming steer wrestler: "Women should not rodeo any more than men can have babies. Women were put on earth to reproduce, and are close to animals. Women's liberation is on an equal to gay liberation--they are both ridiculous." (--in the book, "RODEO: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame," by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, University of Tennessee Press, 1982. RECOMMENDED READING!)
I don't know that chicken roping can be called a "way of life." But it's certainly part of the life of a lot of people in that part of the world, whose moral education is severely stunted. There's a frightening neediness about all these people, a craving for a kind of sensation that will entertain them for a bit; but the sensations are cheap and tawdry (belt buckles, some prize money), even destructive, to self (drunkenness), and of course to others, the helpless frightened captive animals. And they apparently lack all faculty for self-questioning, and wondering, "Why in the world am I doing these mean and stupid things?" it's not easy to see how one can even begin a civilized conversation with such people.
Thank you for this travelogue to the Great Plains' heart of darkness. Having driven through Wyoming many times I think I can safely say that nowhere in the US is the beauty of nature more starkly juxtaposed against the squalor of humanity than there in the cowboy state. Unfortunately, the benighted natives you encountered, prancing around in their primitive regalia of oversize hats, garish belt buckles and pointy-toed boots while practicing their savage customs at the local water hole, have not a clue about what demons they actually are. On the plus side, Wyoming is the least densely (human) populated state in the continental US.
Another sub-human way of being a ''special'' kind of monstrous POS towards other creatures, towards those who care among us, and to the whole planet !!!🤬😩💩👹
Not a species is safe from human exploitation…this is horrific, despicable, and outrageous. But hey, at least they’re good people 🙃 they just don’t know any better lol great work exposing this, can’t be easy sitting idly by, among monsters, while this happens.
It took enormous courage to go to that terrible place and sit among such people, but now the documentation is in the public domain for good. For more on chicken roping, including the one we got cancelled in New Mexico in 2000, please visit http://www.upc-online.org/entertainment. The sponsor of that event admitted they could not guarantee that no chickens would be harmed by being roped.
-- Karen Davis, President, United Poultry Concerns www.upc-online.org
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And we dare call ourselves Homo SAPIENS (sic), the single most destructive and only SELF-destructive species on the planet, to the detriment of all others.
From a Wyoming steer wrestler: "Women should not rodeo any more than men can have babies. Women were put on earth to reproduce, and are close to animals. Women's liberation is on an equal to gay liberation--they are both ridiculous." (--in the book, "RODEO: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame," by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, University of Tennessee Press, 1982. RECOMMENDED READING!)
I don't know that chicken roping can be called a "way of life." But it's certainly part of the life of a lot of people in that part of the world, whose moral education is severely stunted. There's a frightening neediness about all these people, a craving for a kind of sensation that will entertain them for a bit; but the sensations are cheap and tawdry (belt buckles, some prize money), even destructive, to self (drunkenness), and of course to others, the helpless frightened captive animals. And they apparently lack all faculty for self-questioning, and wondering, "Why in the world am I doing these mean and stupid things?" it's not easy to see how one can even begin a civilized conversation with such people.
I am never shocked at the xo level of humanity’s ability to css as use immense suffering with no regard for animals as sensitive and sentient.
Thank you for this travelogue to the Great Plains' heart of darkness. Having driven through Wyoming many times I think I can safely say that nowhere in the US is the beauty of nature more starkly juxtaposed against the squalor of humanity than there in the cowboy state. Unfortunately, the benighted natives you encountered, prancing around in their primitive regalia of oversize hats, garish belt buckles and pointy-toed boots while practicing their savage customs at the local water hole, have not a clue about what demons they actually are. On the plus side, Wyoming is the least densely (human) populated state in the continental US.
These people are no more than your average redneck psychopaths…why are we even allowing this to happen to the voiceless?
Another sub-human way of being a ''special'' kind of monstrous POS towards other creatures, towards those who care among us, and to the whole planet !!!🤬😩💩👹
Good article!
Why are even allowing these redneck psychopaths to abuse these voiceless creatures? Why is this even legal? Time to make a big change,