San Diego must stop subsidizing animal cruelty and ban rodeos

San Diego must stop subsidizing animal cruelty and ban rodeos

The city of San Diego and the Padres are complicit in perpetuating animal cruelty by planning to host a rodeo in coming months for the third time and promoting it as family entertainment. I will never forget what I saw at the very first San Diego rodeo at Petco Park on Jan. 10, 2023. In the middle of the performance, a horse named Wako Kid bolted into a metal fence with a sickening thud. The crowd gasped as he crumpled to the ground, clearly gra…