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Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 2:05 PM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
More than 1,200 horses died at racetracks this year.
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Mary Reeves is a staff writer for the Times-Gazette.
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Excellent question? I am not sure how many Walking Horses die each year, but are they attributed to training or natural causes.
I do not support any industry that mistreats animals, and Surely making horse run their hearts out would seem cruel.
Every time I think the villains in the horse business have gone as low as they can go,I read a Dick Francis book and learn of a new way owners,trainers and the like can be abusive just for wealth or ego.
I don't think any particular animal-related industry has all the saints or all the sinners.
Bad guys will do whatever they can get away with and wonder why they get punished and reviled if caught.
I don't know why anyone is surprised that people who harm non-humans would be just as callous or deliberately hurtful to their own species.
Either they are modeling the behavior they have learned or they see no reason to be sane and compassionate if cruelty seems to offer better rewards.
people+big money+ animals.. animals always lose..