Posted: Mar 18, 2018 5:39 pm
felltoearth wrote:jamest wrote:SafeAsMilk wrote:I'm not really sure what that has to do with, or in any way justifies them being tortured.
I didn't suggest that it did. Playing devil's advocate, I'm merely suggesting that if humans didn't have a use for horses, then horses generally would probably be more fucked than they already are. The only conclusion you can reasonably infer from these comments is that human behaviour is generally deplorable, to the extent that if we didn't allow humans to use animals such as horses as they currently do then one would have to fear for the future of there being any horses at all. Except maybe in zoos.
That you can't recognize that for the logical fail that it is, is staggering.
Agreed!
Anyway, there are other uses for horses, apart from racing, that aren't particularly abusive; leisure riding for example; there's no real issue with riding on a horse, if it's fit and schooled properly. I'm quite a fan of other horse sports, such as dressage and three day eventing and, while occasional abuses and welfare issues do crop up in those sports, they are genuinely not on anything like the same scale as in racing. A show jumper or dressage horse that doesn't make the top grade is very, very likely to be useful to someone in a way that racehorses very rarely are (I've been around horses all my life, btw, and have ridden many ex racers, so I do have some practical experience of what I'm talking about).