Horse Racing and the aristocratic hypocrasy

[Jamo]

Originally Posted by AMF

The crazy thing is, in MOST municipalities and states, if you decide to "euthanize" your dog out of a sense of being humane, you can have criminal charges brought against you. It's a fine to kill and bury your dog in the backyard nowadays, even if it bites you or becomes old and incapable. But if a horse tears out some ligaments, (from a direct result of what the owner was forcing it to do) it's cool to put it down. Go figure.

What is your first statement based on?

The rest of your paragraph appears to be a mix of different (possibly contrary) statements. I agree about not being able to bury dead animals in certain jurisdictions...that is for human health concerns. That is also different from putting the animal down.

If one was to follow the various commentary included within your paragraph as YOU wrote it...you can't bury your dog in the back yard, but you can bury your horse.

Which is it? Thanks.

[AMF]

I didn't make a proper connection.

I was trying to show how our laws concerning dogs and pets are so much different than the laws surrounding horses or cattle or what have you.

I'm for one way or the other. It really doesn't bother me all that much about the cruelty involved in horse racing, what bothers me is that America went nuts over the dog fighting thing, but horse racing seems to be okay. It's the disparity that bothers me.

I'm not a PETA freak, but I would argue that any sport that ends with having to put the animal down is somewhat cruel.