Stop Horse Racing
- af: Alejandra Reyes
- mottagare: horse rider's
One of Britain%u2019s leading national newspaper journalists has written a devastating article condemning the cruelty and callousness to be found right across the horse racing industry. Arising from a visit to Grand National, Liz Jones %u2013 writing in the Mail on Sunday %u2013 describes how drunken punters jeered as horses suffered horrific falls and how the Aintree management %u2013 recognising she was not about to write the usual backslapping piece %u2013 tried to confine her to the press box. The day before, Animal Aid%u2019s horse racing consultant and his 14 year old daughter had come in for some thoroughly unwarranted rough treatment from Aintree security.
The horse racing industry advertises itself as "glamorous," but in reality, exploitation, welfare violations, cruelty, and premature deaths are an inherent and unavoidable part of this industry based on greed.
FACTS SAY MORE THAN JUST WORDS! (how can this be ok???)
2. Race horses frequently suffer injuries because they are forced to train and race before their skeletal system has finished growing.
3. Horses are forced to race even while injured, causing enormous suffering. Since the profit-making motive, not animal welfare, is the priority, horses are drugged so they can race even when injured.
4. The unnatural stresses inherent in competing so aggressively and at such a young age also cause or make worse other serious problems, such as stomach ulcers, heart murmurs, and bleeding in the lungs, not observed in horses worked at reasonable levels. These health and injury problems once again necessitate the use of drugs to maintain the horse%u2019s racing value (but not well-being).
5. Lethal experiments are now part of racehorse suffering
6. Overuse of whips and spurs in races and the use of batteries and electric goads on training tracks are all illegal but they all still occur.
7. The industry promotes the false image of race horses retiring to lives of luxury as pets, well-cared-for riding horses, or stud horses. In reality, when horses can no longer race, they are usually sent to slaughterhouses.
8. Legislators in the U.S. and England have tried to regulate the industry through statutes and regulations, but these attempts at control are often circumvented. Fraudulent and criminal practices are inherent in horse racing, despite the best efforts of controlling authorities, and in spite of extensive laws, severe and widespread abuse of racehorses usually goes unpunished, and even undetected.
9. Very few of the hundreds of thousands of horses bred win any money at all, let alone return their training and veterinary costs, or their sometimes astronomical purchase price.
Conclusion:
Horses are sentient creatures, not inanimate, disposable objects. There is nothing romantic or glamorous about racing, despite the industry%u2019s media promotions, and there are many ways to gamble besides racing horses. The horse-racing industry is built on the severe exploitation of horses for the sake of entertainment and gambling. It is cruel to horses, bad for people, and has no place in an enlightened society. In this day and age, it is unconscionable to exploit animals so humans can gamble, particularly when such serious violations of basic welfare are an inherent part of the industry.
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