Is this America’s Dirty Little Secret?
Question by A14green: Is this America’s Dirty Little Secret?
I just watched Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, which featured an investigation on the reality behind horse racing that most people don’t want to think about. The investigation revealed the cruel reality that most race horses go to slaughter. If they aren’t winning they aren’t making their owners any money, so they get sold for slaughter. Since the US has outlawed horse slaughter here, the horses are crammed together and sent overseas, Canada or South America, where slaughter is even more inhumane than in the US.
As all registered thoroughbreds have an identifying tatoo on their lip, one horse rescued from slaughter, named “Little Cliff,” had made his owner 0K in purses before he was sold to “the meat man.” A former employee of Montineer race track called the reality behind horse racing “America’s dirty little secret.”
Why would anyone with a conscience support such a cruel “sport?” This can be applied to all animals unnecessarily forced to entertain humans.
Best answer:
Answer by Querious
You almost had me until the last sentence.
You know, there was a dog “shamed” on Cute Overload today. He had his picture taken next to a sign that said, “I eat my own poop.” I suppose you’re one of the people who thinks this was cruel?
Second, is it “America’s dirty little secret?”
No.
Is it dirty? Yes. Is it little? Probably. Is it a secret? Perhaps, but you’ve blown that now, by posting on the internet, haven’t you?
But is it America’s dirty little secret? I don’t think so, I think we have much bigger and much dirtier and much more secret secrets than that. And we have secrets which actually have something to do with our culture or which the people are arguably complicit in.
No, what we have here, is a dirty little secret of a few inhumane fat-cats.
And one which may well reflect worse on countries other than America, if it is true, as you say, that the horses are shipped away from here to where slaughtering practices are even more inhumane.
We could have some common cause if that was all you were asking for, humane treatment of animals. Its a venerable position, a noble sentiment. And if you overlook it, or consider it “species-ist” then you do so to the detriment of your cause.
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