It’s ABUSE, not entertainment! Stop the Woodside Pig Scramble

by: The Committee for Humane Woodside
target: Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County; event sponsors: R.E. Borrmann’s Steel Co., Risk Strategies, Putnam Dealer Group, Dave Tanner, Inc.
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41,530 SUPPORTERS – 45,000 GOAL

On July 4th, The Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County hosts the Northern California Junior Rodeo in Woodside. In addition to the official line-up of Junior Rodeo events, the Mounted Patrol itself stages an un-sanctioned event called the pig scramble. We are strongly opposed to how this abusive activity treats pigs.

Pigs are prey animals and they suffer from extreme distress as they are chased by dozens of screaming children who mob them, grab and tackle them by the hind legs and torso. The pigs are also treated in inhumane and potentially injurious ways by the adults involved who have been documented tossing pigs onto the ground from…