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Originally Posted by Igottago
Just accept the fact that this spectacle is not very humane to animals and puts human entertainment as its primary focus. Fair enough. You can't have it both ways.
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I agree that it puts human entertainment as the primary focus and carries a risk for horses but to say its not very humane I think doesnt look at the whole situation.
If someone were breeding horses for Chuck wagon racing then you may have a case that we have to accept that it is not humane and you are breeding animals to die but and I think this is where the disagreement comes in there are many who will argue that the extra live span the horses enjoy because of chuckwagon races outweighs the risk that these horses under go.
Maybe it is because Calgary doesn't have a big Horse Racing industry but how come animal rights protesters don't target thouroughbred racing rather than the end game of chuckwagons. If you get rid of the Chucks the same number of horses die each year. If you get rid of thourghbred racing you would have 3000 less horses born and die each year.
Beyond that it really comes down to if you eat meat. Because if you eat feed lot meet Chucks, rodeo, hunting, etc are all more humane than feed lot meet.