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My thoughts on this when I started the thread was the hypocrisy of the people in the horse racing industry and the fans of it when they think that its ok to race them but not to eat them. It's not that eating horses is wrong, but that the way they treat the horses is acceptable and raising them for slaughter is somehow immoral.
The jockeys smack the horse with a whip to make them run faster and they inject them with cortizone shots to make them push through the pain. If the horse breaks its leg its probably put to sleep. Those are examples of what they call acceptable ways to treat them but to raise them solely for slaughter is immoral. I don't see their logic. Either you decide that they are of nearly equal standing with humans, similar to PETA freaks; or you should not differentiate between breeding them for race vs breeding for consumption.
I don't see the difference. I don't have a problem with either industry.
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