Some synthetic surfaces currently used at many H/J venues and training barns also need to be picked clean of any poop ASAP.
And for Palm Beach, rarely apologize for anything I say in here, plus I just quoted the turd statistic, but I do regret your wine ending up in your keyboard/device. I owe you a box.
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That’s an excellent article. Thx for the link.
I was thinking about this the other day. We have no qualms about eating other farm animals like cows, chickens, sheep, pigs, etc but since being replaced by vehicles, horses have turned into more of a companion than an animal that provides a service.
I think it runs perhaps a little deeper than that. Perhaps we have no qualms because we are so sheltered as a society from where food really comes from. Do we really grasp the reality of the chicken in cellophane as being alive the day before? Sometimes I will sit in traffic and I will be next to a truck full of live pigs or cows. I feel pity because i know they are not just out for a ride but, to be frank, I don’t really equate the truck with the bacon hamburger on the menu.
How many people in this day and age and outside of places like COTH know anything about horses? How many people see live horses outside of a parade or a racetrack or the police horse on the corner?
When a person has no actual experience, it is easy to fill in the blanks with nonsense and wishful thinking. That is especially true when other people are incentivized to serve up nonsense as part of fundraising.
Right, but why no sentimental feelings about the animals we eat, and sentimental feelings about race horses, if we have the same lack of direct experience with all of them?
Culture has changed to view them differently. We now keep horses as entertainment or as a hobby and don’t want to just dispose of them when they are no longer able to entertain or amuse us. More thought is now going into their futures.
We still raise meat animals as meat, even if all we see is a cellophane wrapped tray in the supermarket cooler, they aren’t there entertain or amuse us with very few exceptions.
I think it’s probably because they see the racehorse alive, in all his glory, on their television screens. Then his life is suddenly “cut short” by “greedy humans.”
Meanwhile, they never saw that chicken in cellophane alive. People are either completely disconnected from it as a living being, or they lie to themselves (often without cognizance of doing so). They fool themselves into thinking it lived like those happy chickens they saw roaming free range on a third grade field trip, then died a peaceful, natural death in order to become your McNuggets… and don’t think about it any more than that.
I’ve also noticed how different awareness is for “animal people” v. “non-animal people.” Even just driving down the road: every single one of us would notice that chicken truck next to us at the stoplight and probably have some sort of reaction. Non-animal people don’t even see it or acknowledge it. If it is brought to their attention, they certainly don’t give it much deep thought.
Quite the opposite - I think their lives at meat farms are so miserable they’re better off dead.
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