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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Who is "we"? Pretty sure everyone lives in the real world. And how do you know no one is willing to adopt these horses? And why would you even suggest that there are only 2 choices of horrible death via glue factory and chance of horrible death via rodeo? My whole point is that it is silly to say that there are only 2 choices.
The reality is that people like rodeo and have justified this based on the fact that entertainment for people is more important than the well being of the animals.
And I'm kind of ok with that. But why pretend that the rodeo people are doing something noble? They aren't. They are using animals for human entertainment and the animals are put at risk and sometimes die horrible deaths.
The worst argument against these animals rights people is one that straight up lies to them. I'd prefer an honest answer.
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If you read the blog posted above, it explains the reality quite well. Thoroughbreds are bred to RACE. Once they are done racing as ponies there is just one main market for them: food production.
The very few that get to race chucks, or breed, are the luckiest of them all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2010052804823
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At least 3,000 such racehorses are retired each year, usually by age 6 if not younger, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation estimates. Given that most horses live well into their 20s, the question of what to do with them for the next 15 or more years looms. I learned that, frequently, the answer is one most horse lovers would rather not think about: Approximately two out of every three thoroughbreds that come off the track -- even those that are sound and healthy -- are euthanized, abandoned on public land or in empty fields, or slaughtered -- their meat exported to Europe and Japan for human consumption.
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