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Originally Posted by tufftie  A riderless horse will continue with the others mainly because they act on herd instinct. though all horses enjoy a good gallop 
Not sure that you can really compare a sport to farming and I'm not sure that just because one treats it's animals better that makes it okay? |
well it is farming really but the animals are bred to run and then presumably become pet food or possibly fertilizer (sorry folks but that's probably the reality) instead of for milk or meat.
My point is that in terms of keeping animals for meat or milk these horses are not so badly off when compared with the sad caged majority. I know you're vegan and against all of it and I admire that. I don't have your strength and actually I want to fund the movement to get back to obtaining our food in a kinder and more sustainable manner and also I feel eating meat and dairy etc keeps us more closely connected to our evolved place in the food web and natural ecology - but that's another thread!!.
I buy milk from poor dairy cows who have beed bred to have udders too big for their spine to take, animals that may well be in pain all their adult lives, animals that lose their babies well before they're ready to. That to me is just as sad - and I can't wait until the day I can have a house cow or find a lovely smallholder and I can get milk from a happier cow with better constitution and a baby she gets to keep but for now that's all I can do.
what I'm trying to say is that while I am involved in horrible things like that I don't see how I can critisize racing without being a bit of a hippocrit