During the 2009 Calgary Stampede, the Alberta SPCA and the Calgary Humane Society (CHS) were on hand to insure that all animals involved with the stampede were being treated properly. No problem...right...wrong. A British Columbia animal-rights group is at odds with its Alberta counterpart over claims of animal cruelty at Canada's largest and most famous rodeo.
The Vancouver Humane society has criticized the Calgary Humane Society and the Alberta SPCA. They felt that they should not be at the stampede. Not exactly sure why. The CHS stated "We are very confident in our animal welfare procedures. We care passionately about these animals. We work with the Alberta SPCA and we will continue to do so."
And to get more media attention out of the deal, the Canadian Humane Society joined in the fracas. They wanted the T.V. stations to stop broadcasting the stampede. " On Thursday, CTV News reported on the Humane Society of Canada's request to the CRTC to ban all broadcasting of rodeo events." Confused ?? There's more to come yet.
The Calgary animal rights group is also in there. This animal rights group is on the stampede grounds with about a dozen people protesting against it. So as it stands right now, we have two groups supporting the Calgary stampede and two groups protesting against it.
I need a program to figure all this out.
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I'd just like to clear up one thing about this. Neither the Alberta SPCA not the Calgary Humane Society are "animal rights" groups. The Vancouver Humane Society has steadfastly worked for better treatment of animals and increased consideration, so could be properly be termed an "animal rights" organization. Any organization that stands up to defend the rodeo is siding against animals, very definitely aligning themselves against animal rights.
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