If you haven't read....the number two horse at the Derby this year has reportedly been euthanized for some sort of drastic injury.
Anyone who follows horse racing, even slightly, knows that the sport is often cruel, even deadly to the horses involved. They literally run them to death or severe injury (to the point that they have to be killed.....for "humane" reasons
). They pump them full of anabolic steroids, run them until their joints and ligaments explode....all in the name of the "sport" and the "tradition" of it all.
I ask, how this is so much different than dog fighting or cock fighting.
I'm not some PETA retard, but I doubt that those horses really looked at each other before the race and thought "I sure hope I don't break something...they're gonna kill me if I do."
I support animals being animals....even beasts of burden, but horse racing literally runs the animals into the ground....and some of the same snooty types who critisize dog fighting are probably sitting the stands with a martini in hand.
It's the old concept that just because you've done something for a long time, doesn't make it right.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Michael Vick, but that old saying..."whats good for the goose...."