International Olympic Committee: ban all Olympic Horse disciplines

  • by: Chrissy Henker
  • recipient: International Olympic Committee, FEI, Thomas Bach President of IOC

Olympic horse disciplines are :


Equestrian / Dressage
Equestrian Eventing
Equestrian Jumping


Olympic games are stressful for horses: long flight, heat, screaming people.


Serious concerns have been raised about riding equipment to be used at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with scientists claiming nosebands and double bridles could cause unnecessary pain and suffering to horses during equestrian events.


Equestrian Eventing: The Olympics' Most Dangerous Sport:
he cross country course design has become too challenging," says Dene Stanstall, the horse consultant for U.K. non-profit Animal Aid. "They risk breaking the horses' necks or backs.
Organized welfare groups
criticised some horse sports with claims of animal cruelty.
 

Behind the romanticized façade of Thoroughbred horse racing is a world of injuries, drug abuse, gruesome breakdowns, and slaughter. While spectators show off their fancy outfits and sip mint juleps, horses are running for their lives.

Horses used for racing are forced to sprint—often under the threat of whips and even illegal electric-shocking devices—at speeds so fast that they frequently sustain injuries and even hemorrhage from the lungs.



Pushed beyond their limits, most horses are subjected to cocktails of legal and illegal drugs intended to mask injuries and artificially enhance performance. Many horses—fittingly called "bleeders" by the racing industry—will bleed from their lungs, a condition known as exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage. In an attempt to decrease the bleeding, many horses are given a drug called Lasix or Salix, a diuretic with performance-enhancing qualities.

After Racing, horses are often killed for human consumption overseas .
Made into dog food .Used to produce glue ,
Murdered by their "owners" who then file fraudulent insurance claims.


You Can Help:


-Dont buy a ticket to a olympic horse show!
 
-Educate others about the cruelty involved in horseracing

Olympic Games -all about money-they dont care about horses health!

Tell the International Olympic Committee to ban all olympic horse  disciplines  such as

Equestrian / Dressage , Equestrian Eventing , Equestrian Jumping!

Please sign and share the petition!

Add your voice for the horses!

Dont support the use of horses for  human entertainment!


Background:



For years, horses have been bred to run fast. As a result, thoroughbreds have oversized frames and undersized legs. They are so fragile that injuries are commonplace. Furthermore, inbreeding causes genetic defects among racehorses.


Transportation to Slaughter
Horses are placed in double-decker trucks which are too low for them to even stand up straight. They are not given food or water, or even allowed to stop and rest. "Owners" do not want to spend money on painkillers so those animals with a broken leg or other injury must suffer the entire trip without any anesthetic. Since horses must be alive when they arrive at the slaughterhouse in order to be used for human consumption, even animals in excruciating pain will not be euthanized.


Horseracing is effectively excluded from all anti-cruelty laws. Individual states are supposed to be regulating the industry through their own racing commissions. Since the racing commission is a state agency, state prosecutors are disinclined toward pursuing cruelty cases against it. Moreover, because each state receives revenue from its tracks, states are unlikely to hold industry insiders to very strict standards.

 



The horse hitting the fence, somersaulting, throwing the rider out of the saddle and subsequently landing on the rider, caused five out of these six deaths and this type of fall – known as "rotational fall" – and it continues to be the main cause of human fatalities in eventing.

Following the tragedies in 1999 the International Eventing Safety Committee was formed. Their recommendations stated simply that "everything possible should be done to prevent horses from falling". Unlike show jumps, most cross-country fences are solid and one recommendation was that jumps should be collapsible if hit hard by the horse.







It has been determined that during exercise the rate of heat generation in the horse increases by 50 percent. This tremendous amount of heat requires a huge increase in loss by the horse's body. The horse loses heat by convection (air moving past the body), radiation (heat given off to the environment around the horse), conduction (heat passing directly to objects in contact with the horse's body), and by evaporation (heat lost through sweat evaporation at the surface of the skin).

In hot environments there is little difference between the horse's temperature and that of the air or surroundings so conduction and radiation do not help much. Often in the summer there is little air movement so convection may not amount to much and evaporation may also be reduced. The volumes of sweat produced by exercising horses as an aid in evaporation can be enormous and fluid deficits can amount to 20 to 30 liters in these athletes. A joint study done by members of the University of Tennessee, Rutgers University and the University of Georgia found that horses competing in three day eventing lost so much water during the second day's endurance phase that they were unable to replace that deficit for the final day's stadium jumping phase.

Not surprisingly, every week, an average of 24 horses experience fatal breakdowns at racetracks  and this number doesn't even take into account the horses who are discarded by the racing industry when they're no longer considered profitable. In 2015, in New York alone, more than 250 Thoroughbreds endured injuries or fatal breakdowns during races.




Links:

more Information:http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/horse-racing-2/

http://theconversation.com/why-olympic-equestrians-could-be-riding-for-a-fall-58965
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-10/olympic-equestrian-equipment-causing-stress-in-horses-study/7386074
http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/heat-stress-its-not-just-equine-athletes-risk-heat-related-injuries-educate-clients

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