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Thank you so much all for bringing this up to the forefront.
I had no idea.
I am an animal lover.
I know sometimes the world is tough,
but it doesn’t have to be.
I am just a regular guy that used to like to bet on the ponies at the county fair once a year.
No more.
I am done.
I will no longer support this.
Actually I have seen this post for a long time and have never read it.
I thought it was the same old ****.
It is not and this treatment of horses should not be tolerated.
Quite a shame actually.
I mean they really messed up a good thing.
Shame on them.
BTW, I no longer consider this sport because it is not.
Thank you so much all for bringing this up to the forefront. I had no idea.
I think most people don't. I know I didn't for the longest time. That's why I keep bumping up this thread.
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Originally Posted by MechAndy
I am just a regular guy that used to like to bet on the ponies at the county fair once a year.
No more.
I am done.
I will no longer support this.
I'm glad to hear that. So jaminhealth started this thread and it's actually going to effect some change for the positive.
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Originally Posted by MechAndy
Actually I have seen this post for a long time and have never read it.
I thought it was the same old ****. It is not and this treatment of horses should not be tolerated.
Quite a shame actually.
I mean they really messed up a good thing.
Shame on them.
BTW, I no longer consider this sport because it is not.
Andy.
I've had the feeling that that was what most people were doing. And I know what you mean, I do that myself. There's another thread here in this particular forum about children being left in hot cars in the summer and dying. I think it was Suburban_Guy who kept updating it every time another child died. It was horrifying to see how often it was happening and really brought home the number of babies and kids this was happening to. So I thought that maybe if I did that here, it might do the same. I don't even report every one I hear about.
Also, as has been mentioned in this thread, the dog-racing industry is just as brutal.
Anyway, thank you for posting. It gives me and, I'm sure, others in this thread some hope.
It's not just the racing deaths. Many of these racehorses are sold to slaughter after racing. There have been attempts by some tracks to ban horses being run thru kill auctions, but many trainers have someone they know take the horse from the track barn, and sell directly to a kill buyer, or they give it to them and they run it thru the kill auctions. In some cases they have burned off the lip tattoo to prevent the horse's identity from being known (and therefore the owner/trainer's identity.The Louisiana tracks are especially bad about this.
And before you think, "its not bad, after all we eat cows", the slaughter process for horses is extremely cruel. Often shipped 15 hrs with no food or water, crammed like sardines into a gooseneck trailer. Then standing in feedlots with no shelter, in strange herds often being run off the hay/water. Wounds untreated. Then shipped over the border to Mexico or Canada. Pregnant mares have given birth in feedlots and even on the kill floor. They arent supposed to ship mares due to foal but they do. Then the horses waiting to be slaughtered can see, hear and smell the blood and fear of those already being slaughtered. In Canada, the captive bolt guns are not always accurate on long necked fight or flight response animals, and frequently miss. There is a video of a draft horse being hit 8 times with it before being killed. When complaints are filed by USDA vet, they were transferred to a different facilty.When horses are being shipped to slaughter, if they ho down on the trailer, the driver simply continues, while the horse is trampled to death.
These facts are all present on USDA docs, testimony in front of congress, shipping reports and under cover videos.
You can google Mary Nash website for links to all of the docs, video, testimony.
Then there is the meat industry, a totally other story about man and the love of meats. I like my meats and not giving them ALL, eat less and less.
Then you better get rid of the family dog too. What do you think they put in a can of Alpo?
Eating meat is natural and healthy and good. And factory farmed animals should be killed compassionately. If we need to pay a bit more for better treatment, that would be ok.
They breed, and breed, and breed horses just to get the right one. The ones that aren't right? Sent to slaughter.
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