Is Horse Racing More Humane Than Dog or Rooster Fights?
Question by Jimmy: Is horse racing more humane than dog or rooster fights?
The runner-up in the Kentucky Derby was euthanized on the track after collapsing with two broken front legs. Things like this are common in racing, remember Barbaro for example. How is one sport that hurts animals for profit different than another?
Best answer:
Answer by Joel S
No we aren’t forcing animals to kill each other or die. We’re just racing them and honestly if a horse didn’t want to race it wouldn’t have to.
Answer by SnaX
The other answerer has to be kidding, right?
the horses make money for people, thus they force them to run, and drug them also! They abuse them and use them up.
There are not enough regulations with this so called “sport.”
One horse in every 22 races suffers an injury that prevents him/her from finishing a race. Care for a single racehorse can cost as much as $ 50,000 per year. So even winners, when they get older are killed a lot of the time, very few don’t. 58 racehorses a year approx. are sent for meat slaughter… and of course there’s insurance fraud, where the horses are injured on purpose to collect on them. They usually get killed.
“There are trainers pumping horses full of illegal drugs every day,” says the former Churchill Downs public relations director.
Which drugs are legal varies from state to state, with Kentucky holding the reputation as the most lenient state. The New York Sun explained that because “thoroughbreds are bred for flashy speed and to look good in the sales ring … the animal itself has become more fragile” and that “to keep the horses going,” they’re all given Lasix (which controls bleeding in the lungs), phenylbutazone (an anti-inflammatory), and cortiscosteroids (for pain and inflammation). Labs cannot detect all the illegal drugs out there, of which there “could be thousands,” says the executive director of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium. Morphine, which can keep a horse from feeling any pain from an injury, was suspected in the case of Be My Royal, who won a race while limping.
KFC is a sponser, and they don’t care about how the chicken they use for meat are raised/killed. There’s ALOT of unneeded cruelty behind their food. Eating meat isn’t the issue with KFC, it’s the cruelty before the anmals are even killed.
Animal rights supporter, Pam Anderson (don’t really like her, but I like that she speaks against animal cruelty), has said, “It makes me want to avoid Kentucky altogether, which is sad because there are so many great people there.”
and (never thought I would say this) but I have to agree with her.
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