A California county has voted to outlaw a controversial brutal rodeo occasion involving tackling and forcibly milking cows.
Supervisors in Alameda County, in San Francisco’s East Bay, voted unanimously final week to ban the occasion following hours of offended feedback from the general public and veterinarians — in addition to enter from cowpokes and followers who supported persevering with the occasion.
In “wild cow milking” a cow is separated from her calf, let unfastened in an area, and lassoed and wrestled into submission by a staff of cowboys in order that one in every of them can forcibly milk her.
Animal rights activists have lengthy condemned the occasion as “one of the offensive” in rodeos.
“Not solely is that this ridiculous and extraordinarily abusive, nevertheless it’s additionally harmful and may show lethal” when injured cows have to be put down, In Protection of Animals stated in a press release.
Although the supervisors voted to ban the occasion, they refused to bar using spurs and bucking straps that provoke bulls into bucking — which animal rights advocates had additionally demanded.
A consultant of the Skilled Rodeo Cowboys Affiliation, which doesn't formally sanction wild cow milking occasions, stated the group was happy with each votes.
Erin Dobrzyn, a campaigner for In Protection of Animals, hailed the vote to ban wild cow milking, which she stated in a press release would “defend lactating mom cows, separated from their nursing infants, from being subjected to this distressing occasion.”
County Supervisor Richard Valle, who pushed for the milking ban, stated on the assembly Tuesday: “Animals, they don’t step as much as the rostrum. They don’t get an opportunity to talk. Who speaks for them?”
Although the ban was accredited by the board, it should nonetheless be learn once more by the supervisors earlier than it could actually go into impact 30 days from passage. The following studying is predicted to happen in October.
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