translated from Spanish: Another controversy with the rodeo: they denounce animal abuse in Pirque and Association of Breeders says “nothing is used that is not accepted by the SAG”

The latter was perhaps the celebration of Fiestas Patrias in which more times it was heard about the rodeo, and not precisely because of something positive, but rather of starring in controversies around animal abuse.
Amid the controversial burning of the paredones, Curacaví and Huasco crescents, last night a video was uploaded to social networks that different animal groups and activists were tasked with viralizing, in it, you can see how a man gives electric shocks to a small cow that lay on the floor, this as the animal complains and refuses to get up. The event is happening in the medialuna of Pirque and is part of the controversy that has occurred over the torture to which rodeo animals are subjected, which has motivated social movements to intervene these acts.
Various animal organizations, including the EDRA Foundation, denounce the use of electroshock in the rodeo. “That we know about the use of electroshock to get the animals up when they fall out of pain, out of tiredness or fear, is unfortunately common and recurring,” said Alexis Castillo, president of the Foundation in conversation with Emol.
Castillo regretted that these situations could not be formally charged as there are no legal tools to do so. “I think the rodeo people have to evolve, they have to find other ways to show how nice the field and the skills of the riders, other than chasing an animal that is scared to death and all they want is to start” Added.
On the other hand, Mauricio Acevedo, president of the Association of Breeders Cordillera de Pirque, explained that the situation was misunderstood as a mistreatment, but that however, “the rodeo is standard and nothing is used that is not accepted by the Agricultural and Livestock Service ( SAG) or is not accepted as animal management standards”.
Meanwhile, veterinarian and rider Emiliano Ruiz explained to Emol that the device used in the video is an electric spike, not an electroshock. “Today, the SAG says that to mobilize livestock, in all fields of Chile, electric fences or electric spikes are used and that generates a stimulus of current – very different from how immobilizing the electroshock is – a desabening of the animal and generates that it is mobilize,” he said.
And as speaking of a being without nervous system, Ruiz assured that this “does not generate any damage, no, stress, no bruising, no bleeding. This is the everyday use used in any field where livestock exist.”
Watch the video below:

Original source in Spanish