Image: “Cowboy Spirit” by Emilio Labrador – Attribution License<\/p>\n
Economics is an important aspect of rodeos, and therefore abolishing rodeos completely would have effects on: Economic Incentives for Good Welfare<\/strong> Image: “Cowboy Spirit” by Emilio Labrador – Attribution License Economics is an important aspect of rodeos, and therefore abolishing rodeos completely would have effects on: 1. Rodeo Cowboys: For many of these athletes, rodeo is their career. 2. Stock Contractors: Owners and breeders of rodeo livestock make their living by providing high quality animals for competitions 3. Host Communities: Communities that host rodeo events benefit economically. For example, the Canadian Finals Rodeo generates over 50 million annually in its host community. 4. Tourism: Rodeo events such as the Calgary Stampede…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21053,"featured_media":144,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/welfareofrodeocattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. Rodeo Cowboys<\/strong>: For many of these athletes, rodeo is their career.
\n2. Stock Contractors<\/strong>: Owners and breeders of rodeo livestock make their living by providing high quality animals for competitions
\n3. Host Communities<\/strong>: Communities that host rodeo events benefit economically. For example, the Canadian Finals Rodeo generates over 50 million annually in its host community.
\n4. Tourism<\/strong>: Rodeo events such as the Calgary Stampede are major tourist attractions.<\/p>\n
\nProviding organizations and individuals with economic incentives for the humane treatment of rodeo animals could have a large impact on their welfare. There is a current lack of such incentives in the rodeo community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"