• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    #KillRacingNotHorses

    California alone has already had 20+ horse deaths this year at only 3 tracks. No legitimate sport would accept the deaths of their athletes on a routine and consistent schedule, as just a fact of life.

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      3 days ago

      Is that rate significantly different from other working horses? No other sport has athletes who can die of a stuffy nose.

        • ragas@lemmy.ml
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          3 days ago

          Dieing of a stuffy nose probably relates to diving.

          But I guess in darts everything is live and death. Soo yeah, why not.

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            3 days ago

            One time I walked into the kitchen as my brother threw a dart and it stuck in my head a second. I don’t think that’s necessarily the reason why he went to one of the best unis in the world and I’m on Lemmy though.

    • HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub
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      3 days ago

      Dead horse best horse. Have you tried their meat? Delicious! I don’t get why we waste it for entertainment.

      Luckily in my country there are people who regularly harass entertainment stables until they get closed and horses get sold to butcher.

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        3 days ago

        Horse meat is incredible. The horse breeders where i live actually sell the meat rather than burning it. Win-win. They get to breed incredible horses, we get food.

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        Well, they’re a pretty great working animal. And they run on grass and water. I suspect they’ll become much more important outside of entertainment in the near future, even in “rich” countries.

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          2 days ago

          Horses are amazing eco-friendly solution to most small-scale labor and transportation needs. However, they are also very easy to force out. All you need to do is pay a bunch of dumb animal-protection nuts to constantly protest their use. This is how electric cars operate in my country - by sending horses from work to meat processing.

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      3 days ago

      ‘athletes’ is pretty anthropromorphic here.

      When horses are able to launch a protest about poor working conditions, then it might come up as a point on the agenda worldwide.