By Peggy Larson, Williston, Vt.
Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 | 2 a.m.
Dr. Robert Bay from Colorado autopsied roping calves and located hemorrhages, torn muscle groups, torn ligaments, injury to the trachea, injury to the throat and injury to the thyroid. These calves by no means get an opportunity to heal earlier than they’re used once more.
Calves repeatedly roped in apply pens undergo fixed ache and accidents to their necks. Meat inspectors who processed rodeo animals have discovered damaged bones, ruptured inside organs, large quantities ofblood within the stomach from ruptured blood vessels, and injury to the ligamentum nuchae that holds the neck to the remainder of the spinal column.
Dr. C. G. Haber, a veterinarian with 30 years of expertise as a USDA meat inspector, mentioned, “The rodeo people ship their animals to the packing homes the place I’ve seen cattle so extensively bruised that the one areas wherein the pores and skin was connected was the top, neck, legs and stomach. I’ve seen animals with six to eight ribs damaged from the backbone and at instances puncturing the lungs. I’ve seen as a lot as two and three gallons of free blood amassed below the indifferent pores and skin.”
Time to finish rodeo.
