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    “Really awful the way they treated that adorable animal. Tortured and killed it on a live stream for entertainment, and then everyone just clapped. Really makes you think.”

    Vegan Alarm Begins Ringing in Earnest

    Anti-Vegan SWAT Team dispatched to confront radical veggie-muncher

    Six elderly military officers in a dimly lit fall-out shelter screaming at one another to scramble the reply-bots

    God damn, I swear. It feels like these vegans just overreact to everything.

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        Exactly! Had a group of guys complaining to me the other day, saying “You can’t just shoot dogs in the street”, “That was my seeing eye dog”, and “Murderer”.

        I say that’s really overreacting. We’re smarter than them, we can do what we want! Namby-pamby vegans always get in the way of my recreational dog shooting.

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          As long as you are grateful and treat the dogs’ mutilated dead bodies with respect, you’re being mindful of the Circle Of Life. That’s just how nature works.

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    All my life I was told animals at the rodeo were the best treated animals in the world.

    I worked backstage at a rodeo. That’s a bold face lie.

    After a cow is done with their round and they are chased back into the cage, that isn’t a cage, it’s a chute/tunnel and the only way to get them to walk down it is to have a cowboy hang from the bars and swing kick the cows on the ass.

    Also, one of the competition rounds is literally chasing a baby cow with a horse, lassoing its legs to make it fall, jumping off the horse, lifting the baby cow off the ground, and then slamming it back onto the ground.

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      And on Monday, June 8, a steer wrestler from Idaho named Stetson Jorgensen charged out of the gate on a horse, chasing after a terrified young cow. He jumped forcefully on the animal, grabbed him by the horns, and snapped his neck to the ground with his bare hands. The young cow lay stiff and motionless, and died shortly after.

      Given the timing, I assume they are talking about this happening at the Calgary Stampede this past Monday.

      Note: June 8 is a typo. Monday was July 8th.

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    As a bloodmouth yeah that guy is pretty dumb lol.

    I’m not sure about what happened at the rodeo, but those are pretty notoriously not cool for animals so I believe it. But it’s certainly not a crime just because you don’t want it to be.

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      Vegan: look at this thing, it’s not a crime, and it’s pretty fucked up.

      You: hey, it may be fucked up, but it’s not a crime.

      Somebody needs to take some B12 supplements.

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      I’m sorry for the downvotes you’re getting. This is vegancirclejerk, not the most welcoming community for meat eaters, to put it mildly.

      I’m glad you agree that it is unethical. You’re right that it is not forbidden by law though. Then again, plenty of things used to be A-OK by law or are still OK in some countries, that we consider atrocities now. Just because it’s legally allowed does not mean it’s right, IMO.

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        Oh I know where I posted, it’s perfectly okay. I think part of it is that while killing it for the rodeo is gross, a quick death is still a far cry from allowing it to bake to death in a car.