Yeah its getting harder to defend the chucks every year. Ive admitted in the past I'm a bit of a hypocrite one the stampede, though its a fine line.
Behind the scenes is quite different. These ranchers, these farmers love their animals. And money that is made is able to give older animals good lives. Out to pasture, instead of glue.
But there have been too many 'accidents' at the chucks over the last ten years. It's becoming the exception over the norm. Even the year they changed it to make it safer a horse (or more) died.
The horses love to run. They enjoy events like this. And its not like horse racing as far as I know where they are pumped full of every known steroid. Maybe I'm wrong. Its happened on occasion.
The activists don't have the full story, far from it. As I said before its a weird thing to single out. It's very low on the totem pole as far as animal treatment. But I agree, there have been too many accidents. And making it safer didn't really make it safer. So I agree, there is a problem.
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