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Rodeos: Activist saddles up against ‘macho crap’
Animal rights activist Eric Mills of Oakland. (Photo: Screen capture, actionforanimals-oakland.com)California has seen ideological clashes throughout its 170-year history as a state, and they are not all confined to Democrats vs. Republicans, north vs. south, coast vs. inland, or rural vs. urban. One of today’s sharpest battles is between rodeo boosters and those who find rodeos cruel and silly. Foremost among the latter is Eric Mills of Oakland, who calls rodeos “just a bunch of macho crap.”