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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
I'm not really on one side of the fence or the other (although the pro-chuckwagon crowd makes a pretty good argument), but there's a massive difference between a human who has the choice to be put in that situation, vs a dog or rooster that doesn't.
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So how do you make a choice for the animal. What basis do you use? We put kids in hockey, football, and other sports initially by convincing them to do it. Like the horse who gleefully gets his saddle on before the race they do not understand the risk. But kids have heart failures, back injuries, concussions and we still do it because its fun? Because the kids say they like it?
The act of chuck wagon racing isnt inherently cruel. Its just higher risk than being in a field. So if a driver right behind the horse is taking the same risks as the horse can we really say chucks are too dangerous.
50 horses have died and two people. Although that is a little skewed because it doesnt count broken limbs for humans like it does for horses as we dont put down humans when they break their arm.
Also per the herald 17 other horses have died at stamped due to ilness and things like penning incidents, and rodeo events.