tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post5360995347841339406..comments2024-03-19T12:41:26.427+02:00Comments on Blame It On The Voices: Rapa das Bestas - Spanish Horse Wrestling Festivalbiotvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05398287905592847113noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-17091811482702046992023-02-15T16:59:42.071+02:002023-02-15T16:59:42.071+02:00Unleash the Benefits of QuickBooks and Shopify Int...Unleash the Benefits of QuickBooks and Shopify Integration for Your Business<br />The QuickBooks and Shopify integration can bring numerous benefits to businesses of all sizes. By combining the powerful accounting capabilities of QuickBooks with the user-friendly e-commerce platform of Shopify, businesses can streamline their financial processes and gain a competitive edge.<br /><a href="https://quicklybookonline.com/shopify-quickbooks-integration/" rel="nofollow">quickbooks shopify integration</a><br />RICHIE SMITHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607791404787471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-78804738208644166612017-10-28T07:56:24.179+03:002017-10-28T07:56:24.179+03:00GOODGOODAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-66435213020404110392017-07-26T22:42:01.699+03:002017-07-26T22:42:01.699+03:00Cutting the horse's hair and removing parasit...Cutting the horse's hair and removing parasites/having them checked by a vet is bad now? How about the american rodeos? Where animals get abused, receive electric discharges, etc FOR NO REASON AT ALL until they are basically dead ? That's animal cruelty and not this... Use your brainAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16032965337896241074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-36590514201394555222016-03-15T16:14:14.666+02:002016-03-15T16:14:14.666+02:00We have 'wild' ponies in the U.K too. New ...We have 'wild' ponies in the U.K too. New Forest Ponies are also rounded up and branded. Tails are cut, but in a distinctive pattern to enable identification, and I believe they are also inoculated/wormed and given reflective collars to protect them on the roads. However wrestling is not necessary as the ponies are funneled from a corral into an individual pen where they can be be more safely handled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-HqC0CGD9UAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02659590846874838995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-15685669345728071212014-04-02T22:45:12.142+03:002014-04-02T22:45:12.142+03:00OK lets start from the beginning, American's a...OK lets start from the beginning, American's and other people love to see the things through their cultural perspective, people wants to report this to PETA although the UNESCO considers it a Intangible Human Good, and I promise there is better animal rights protectors inside the UNESCO than iside PETA.<br /><br />1 It's easy to take the pictures as a cruel act, you should cheek a damn video on how this is done. I love animals, I'm against traditions on my country like Bull Fighting or San Fermines where cruelty is inherently intrinsic on them.<br /><br />1 These are the last wild horses of Europe, and they are there because of this tradition. No I don't mean that they are kept for the tradition, 1 The animals are trimmed to protect them from ticks and flees, 2 the animals before and after go through a veterinarian checkout. They control that no disease affects the last remaining wild horses of the continent.<br /><br />2 Yes it could be made different, but sometimes what your eyes see is knot the reality. This people trains all year round on the techniques on how to do this, they don't train with horses of course, and only the people who trains can perform this task no one else is allowed inside.<br /><br />Why I mention this, because par average taking down the horse and trim it is less than 3 minutes, they are independent studies that were accepted by the UNESCO showing that no serious bruces or contusions happen during the process.<br /><br />It gets me angry, because you worry about something you don't know or understand at all, somebody posts a few images out of context, you don't check the independent studies, and not only that PETA Spain is completely aware of this and they have never been against it based on the fact that they payed their own studies that showed what I'm saying.<br /><br />While you complain, you go and eat chicken coming from mass production plants treated inhumanely, not to mention milk cows, wool sheep, pork crates and all the tremendous horrific stuff that farm animals suffer in the US.<br /><br />And let me repeat it in the US, because in the region where this tradition happens there is also a long tradition on only eat products from the land, and their farm animals still are grown in tradition manners, actually they are a huge exporter of ethical and organic meat derivates to the North and Center of Europe.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-40157681006027750322014-04-02T22:40:21.788+03:002014-04-02T22:40:21.788+03:00hose are competencies of the Central government an...hose are competencies of the Central government and they can not be decided by the States.<br /><br />Catalonia was the first place in the world where big apes where ban on medical experimentation, and one of the regions that pushed harder to ban any cosmetic in the EU that has been experimented with animals.<br /><br />Put your bullshit together. I can believe also how many stupid comments, I've been in this tradition a couple times, I was with line of the vets that checks the animals.<br /><br />1 They are timed to keep ticks and other parasites away during the summer, yes it could be done in a different fashion, but these animals have survived wild because humans took care of them once a year.<br /><br />2 There is no ear mutilation allowed in the 4 main villages where this is done, and those who do it are excluded from the touristic guides about these traditions.<br /><br />3 These animals are checked before and after by vets, they get shots to protect them from several diseases.<br /><br />There is a reason why the last herds of wild European horses are in Galicia, and not in your countries, people care for them. It may look brutal but I've been with the vets and they keep records, if any animal is injured, the videos are check and the persons involved are not allowed inside the square for 2 years.<br /><br />I hate the saxon hypocrisy, you only care about things that don't affect your life style, when it turns to fight for proper conditions of farm animals, or in the case of the US better shelters you don't move a damnn finger, may be it will rise your taxes or may be the price of the food for your burgers, even those animals suffer the worst conditions and mishandling you can imagine, they are tortured since they are born until the day they die.<br /><br />I live now in the US, I can shop meat because as a vet myself I've seen what is done. Luckilly there is a few people who do the right thing, I have a local farmer pasture raised beef and cow, cage free traditional space for hences, and pigs with a lot of space to do whatever they please them. The funniest part, as for any other local farmer in Maryland, most of the customers are from somewhere else but the US. Americans complain it's expensive they prefer their level 2 meat from whole foods, they feel good about it, Level 2 is industrial rises animals which tinny space and no need of natural light. But since they leveled the food through the humane society, they have seen that that is the level their hypocrite customers are shilling to get, to the point that many supper markets don't offer level 3 and level 4 is rarely found anywhere.<br /><br />Not to mantion that your index of abandoned animals is higher than any Western country, the shelters kill the animals after 10 days almost everywhere in the country, and there is not clear legislation on maintaining wild animals at home, so thousands of tigers, lions, chimps etc are kept by owners in tinny spaces without the minimum conditions that a 19th century zoo would offer.<br /><br />Ohh not to forget, last place in the West where Orca Whales are kept in captivity and used for shows, Americans are number one customers of swim with dolphins in the Caribbean, (dauphins that lip he par average 3 years, come from Japanese dolphin slaughtering, and they tend to drawn on purpose to die due to the conditions they live in, but you like to maintain that industry, that one makes a lot of sense.<br /><br />Not to mention that you are the first consumer of Fur in the West after Russia. Keep your shit together and culture yourselves a bit before speaking, this tradition is controlled and just putting a bunch of out of context pictures does not make it inhumane, as said it keeps alive and wild roaming the last herds of Horses on Europe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-37364778941950515902014-04-02T22:38:58.364+03:002014-04-02T22:38:58.364+03:00Saxon people is not only idiotic but hypocrite. If...Saxon people is not only idiotic but hypocrite. If you trace a line through Madrid and you look at the North you will find some of the Regions of Europe that are more aware of Animal welfare, already two states on the North Backed bullfighting, and surveys show that exempt for Navarra, more than 85% of Northen Spaniards are against bullfighting and they expect that it will get banned.<br />Catalonia was the first region in the whole European Union on closing public animal shelters and giving the money yearly to non profits who take care of stranded animals. These non profits have the mandate to keep the animals in great conditions until they find an owner and there is not a time set, no animal is sacrificed in the Non Profit shelters unless it's for medical needs.<br /><br />The rules on animal farming are among the hardest in the World, California passed their new rules based on what the Bascs, Catalans and Galician people imposed many years ago. Still California went half way through because their farming industry though the rules were too harsh for them.<br /><br />Some of the Northen States mandate that there is a slaughterhouse in every county, so animals don't suffer stress due to transport, and there has been a huge investment on techniques to have the animals half way slept in the slaughter houses so they are out of stress there. No animal can be sacrificed out of a slaughter house.<br /><br />Catalonia has in place some of the hardest penalties in the world on animal cruelty, and together with 5 other regions have tried several times to get laws to incarcerate people who harm animals, or people who neglect animals.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-64699171993483086262014-04-02T22:03:40.958+03:002014-04-02T22:03:40.958+03:00OK lets start from the beginning, American's a...OK lets start from the beginning, American's and other people love to see the things through their cultural perspective, people wants to report this to PETA although the UNESCO considers it a Intangible Human Good, and I promise there is better animal rights protectors inside the UNESCO than iside PETA.<br /><br />1 It's easy to take the pictures as a cruel act, you should cheek a damn video on how this is done. I love animals, I'm against traditions on my country like Bull Fighting or San Fermines where cruelty is inherently intrinsic on them.<br /><br />1 These are the last wild horses of Europe, and they are there because of this tradition. No I don't mean that they are kept for the tradition, 1 The animals are trimmed to protect them from ticks and flees, 2 the animals before and after go through a veterinarian checkout. They control that no disease affects the last remaining wild horses of the continent.<br /><br />2 Yes it could be made different, but sometimes what your eyes see is knot the reality. This people trains all year round on the techniques on how to do this, they don't train with horses of course, and only the people who trains can perform this task no one else is allowed inside.<br /><br />Why I mention this, because par average taking down the horse and trim it is less than 3 minutes, they are independent studies that were accepted by the UNESCO showing that no serious bruces or contusions happen during the process.<br /><br />It gets me angry, because you worry about something you don't know or understand at all, somebody posts a few images out of context, you don't check the independent studies, and not only that PETA Spain is completely aware of this and they have never been against it based on the fact that they payed their own studies that showed what I'm saying.<br /><br />While you complain, you go and eat chicken coming from mass production plants treated inhumanely, not to mention milk cows, wool sheep, pork crates and all the tremendous horrific stuff that farm animals suffer in the US.<br /><br />And let me repeat it in the US, because in the region where this tradition happens there is also a long tradition on only eat products from the land, and their farm animals still are grown in tradition manners, actually they are a huge exporter of ethical and organic meat derivates to the North and Center of Europe.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-11924943654868724522013-08-03T00:47:30.068+03:002013-08-03T00:47:30.068+03:00Afinal quem são as bestas?
As de duas ou quatro pa...Afinal quem são as bestas?<br />As de duas ou quatro patas.<br />É bem evidente que são as de duas.<br />Tradição, tradição que venha a Santa Inquisição e que lance na fogueira as BESTAS 1que tanto sofrimento e terror causam nos pobres animaisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-1694429991771885132013-06-05T16:59:53.815+03:002013-06-05T16:59:53.815+03:00Some brilliant photos of the festival. I have to a...Some brilliant photos of the festival. I have to agree with the majority of others who posted here - a bit cruel on the horses if you ask me!<br />Joe.Joe Mitchellhttp://therocketspanishreviewer.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-33677540398265055392012-09-28T17:08:25.353+03:002012-09-28T17:08:25.353+03:00How freaken barbaric. I fail to see the glory or e...How freaken barbaric. I fail to see the glory or entertainment value in this<br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501449413405321749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-48867169646873363252012-06-09T19:31:13.378+03:002012-06-09T19:31:13.378+03:00I have a feeling more humans are injured than hors...I have a feeling more humans are injured than horses in this practice but I really fail to see the necessity of it. Why do they do this? What is the point of cutting their mane and tail? That is their defense against flies and other insects. The horses in the pictures do look to be frightened but they are not being roped and thrown or shot or even drugged from the sounds of it so their terror is short lived but I would also think it would severely hamper their future ability to trust humans which may or may not be a good thing in their case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-4417715091886190392012-06-01T20:52:17.526+03:002012-06-01T20:52:17.526+03:00Just because they aren't getting killed to get...Just because they aren't getting killed to get their mane and tail cut does not mean they don't feel any pain while you are doing so,and you would not know because you are not the horse.The amount of abuse these horses look like they are getting is unbearable,I think this tradition is stupid and needs to stop.I hope people have died during this festival by the horse,and I hope people do in the near future if this carries on.It's disgraceful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-43571502912112773722012-05-26T02:04:39.126+03:002012-05-26T02:04:39.126+03:00This is neat. They are not killing or torturing th...This is neat. They are not killing or torturing them, so freaking out about it is unnecessary. There are far worse animal games that exist in history, and this is an interesting and silly one! lolz I'm sure many humans get injured though, but everyone looks pretty happy. :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-7268505016813609742012-03-19T02:31:23.496+02:002012-03-19T02:31:23.496+02:00Barbarians.Barbarians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-91021723780536350302012-03-07T11:03:50.085+02:002012-03-07T11:03:50.085+02:00espero que la humanidad cambie para bien...espero que la humanidad cambie para bien...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-63430872223244523982012-03-01T19:18:33.530+02:002012-03-01T19:18:33.530+02:00A Galcian horse raised in captivity is something v...A Galcian horse raised in captivity is something very weird. The horses are raised in the wild (we don't see the point of keeping the horse in captivity unless it's going to help with farming or you're going to ride it) with barely human intervention, which only happens when striclty necessary. The Rapa, is one of these cases when it's necessary.<br /><br />Horses get their hair cut because Galcians forests (they cover 2/3 of the territory) are thick and full of toxos, a kind of bush with thorns instead of leaves (google it to see how it looks) and many bugs that can make a horse ill. If not cut, their hair (the fur is sometimes also needed to be cut, by the way) can get tangled in a bush and they can hurt themselves or become ill from infections.<br /><br />During this event (which IS NOT A FESTIVAL), foals and pregnant mares are taken to another part so they don't get hurt. The ones who remain are the males, and then two things can happen:<br /><br />1. When an animal (humans included) is grabbed by the neck, their first reaction is to try to get free. At first the horse thinks that you're a predator that wants to kill him, but they do calm down and don't need to be held down against the ground. In fact, some horses allow to be ridden afterwards.<br /><br />2. Why do some horses have to be holded down against the ground? Because horses, like all animals, have alphas. And if you grab an alpha, the horse will take it as a challenge.<br /><br />The point here is not being incredible strong. As we say in Galicia: "más vale maña que fuerza", in other words, skill always wins against strenght. The ones dealing with the horses are their owners, and they had learned from little how to handle them without actually hurting them.<br /><br />The ones you should worry about are the humans, they're the ones that end in the hospital.<br /><br />And talking about hospitals... During the Rapa das Bestas, horses get their wounds threated and desinfected. However, they're wild and don't like to get grabbed.<br /><br />And no, sedating them is not an option; in fact, it's a bad idea. The only way to sedate them without grabbing them first would be by shooting the horses, which would scare the rest. It can get the horse killed, either because the rest of the horses may stomp over it or because the horse falls down a hill full of rocks(Galicia is not even and rocks, contrary to popular belief, are not soft).<br /><br />Why do the aloitadores use their hands? It's the safest way to hold the horse. The other option would be a rope, and then you risk suffocating the horse.<br /><br />Aslo, as I said before, this is not a festival. It's a tradition that takes place every year to check the horses. Why all the people? THAT is another Galician tradition: our community is important for us, so we do practically everything together, to the point that everyone in your town will know who are you marrying and when because someone has announced it (with a big poster).<br /><br />The job is tiring (horses are not exactly weak), and aloitadores need to eat and rest. By tradition, all neighbors will help with the job in some way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-57242539555466258342011-11-30T18:10:08.290+02:002011-11-30T18:10:08.290+02:00Wow, the spanish sure do like to abuse animals, Go...Wow, the spanish sure do like to abuse animals, Got a bit of a reputation for it, bull fighting, wrestling with horses, wew your messing with two of the largest and strongest animals on the planet, clearly under estimating horses and bulls, ar well, horses and bulls will prove wrong one day....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-45353203336977651052011-11-23T17:46:26.196+02:002011-11-23T17:46:26.196+02:00For starters thats alot of STRESS on the horse'...For starters thats alot of STRESS on the horse's, they need the hair on the tail to swat at insects from biting them all over.<br />Never having a human hand placed on them then being grabbed all over in a harsh manner BS it is crule.<br />you know nothing about kindness and loveShame on younoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-62587077296395680712011-10-20T07:56:10.587+03:002011-10-20T07:56:10.587+03:00A professionally crafted buy logos is one of the g...A professionally crafted <a href="http://www.logodesignconsultant.com/buy-logo-design-cost.html" rel="nofollow">buy logos</a> is one of the greatest blessings for a company; whether it is big or small. It gives them an identity of their own and makes them different from others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-22832335861373300692011-09-15T23:46:19.358+03:002011-09-15T23:46:19.358+03:00Sorry but that is just plain stupid and just abuse...Sorry but that is just plain stupid and just abuseing horses even if it is a "Tradition"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-3835628953453853762011-07-26T01:42:14.510+03:002011-07-26T01:42:14.510+03:00@anon, except whites evolved unlike the people pic...@anon, except whites evolved unlike the people pictured above. Also, If I knew who you were I'd smack your face...1000 times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-10776818752623599812011-06-24T20:51:34.023+03:002011-06-24T20:51:34.023+03:00That's horrible. That's like making a spor...That's horrible. That's like making a sport out of wrestling people, but instead of one on one with equal weaponry you crowd people into a ring, so crowded they can barely move, and let people launch themselves at them without any hindrances. <br /><br />Note to self: If i ever take one step into spain, spit on the ground and then leave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-9889483492734708272011-06-20T08:25:35.178+03:002011-06-20T08:25:35.178+03:00Seems that spanish ppl like to abuse animals... an...Seems that spanish ppl like to abuse animals... and this is their whole culture. xP<br /><br />Instead of this cruelty start working you lazy asses...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1106826179205248419.post-82083340725102673042010-10-26T03:41:57.114+03:002010-10-26T03:41:57.114+03:00No puedo creer que este leyendo tanta gilipollez j...No puedo creer que este leyendo tanta gilipollez junta. Creo que ya han defendido con los argumentos adecuados esta tradicion lo suficiente. Sin embargo las criticas se reactivan una y otra vez por culpa de gente que NUNCA ha estado alli ni sabe de lo que habla y que opina desde su casa porque ve una imagen de un caballo salvaje resistiendose a una inmovilizacion (no se de que otra forma se le podria cortar el pelo). Probablemente estas mismas personas dejan sin pasear a su chihuahua hasta que orina en la alfombra, le pegan por eso, y luego se comen un filete de cerdo pensando que crece en los congeladores de los supermercados. Lo que veo es mucho "susurrador" al oido de los caballos que no ha visto nunca uno de cerca. El que quiera ver sin aditivos sensacionalistas en que consiste la rapa que mire esto:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0zRCrFzZRE<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHHwjahkJE&feature=related<br /><br />For English translation use google translator or learn Spanish.Jorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311607537622608097noreply@blogger.com