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- UtahApocalyse, on 06/16/2008, -3/+29Breaking: 100 million Cows were raised to be killed this year just for food.
- inactive, on 06/16/2008, -9/+31AP Study: Estimated glue surplus.
- johndi, on 06/16/2008, -4/+20Thoroughbreds are way too inbred. In ways the thoroughbred racing industry is worse than puppy mills. Add some new bloodlines on your own or watch people turn to other styles of racing where the horses don't get seriously injured (and that usually means death) as often. It won't take too many more high profile deaths.
- Greengoo, on 06/16/2008, -1/+16The idea is to STOP inbreeding, not encourage it.
- dashboardradio, on 06/16/2008, -2/+17Thoroughbreds are pushed too hard, too young. Not to mention the steroids involved; there's more steroids in horse racing than there were/are in baseball.
Along with not including many states because they simply don't keep records, this number doesn't include the ones sent to auction to be killed. - nharpe, on 06/16/2008, -5/+14Those numbers are skewed to make the problem look worse than it is. That 5000 includes ALL thoroughbred deaths, not just on track euthanasia. Horses that die of natural causes are included too. I go to the races 25+ times a year at different tracks in Kentucky and it is a VERY rare thing to see a horse go down.
- willrs, on 06/16/2008, -1/+9well apparently deaths are at a low rate...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-15-dead-h ... - DreKor, on 06/16/2008, -2/+9They didn't mention that many slaughtered race horses are used for food. Just a fun bit of trivia.
- harmonychurch, on 06/16/2008, -4/+11In other news, 100% of horses die.
- chanop, on 06/16/2008, -8/+15In other news, Dog food and Glue production is at an all time high!
- erikerikerik, on 06/16/2008, -1/+7Raced to death? nah, they have been bread to death.
untill the 80's (I could be wrong) horse's where bread with some thought of 'stamina,' and infact did not race as often.
However now horse's are bread for speed not stamina.
to help any one out its like taking a 300+ pound body builder and telling him to go run like a marathoner. - NotSoHotPink, on 06/16/2008, -10/+16Can't we just bet on auto racing and stop breeding these horses?
- crapmatic, on 06/16/2008, -2/+7Breaking: Those cows, for the most part, end their lives humanely slaughtered. Well, unless it's someplace like Seaboard Foods running the place.
- zadadka, on 06/16/2008, -0/+5Knowing how _the majority_ of stable staff love the animals in their care and their resulting desolation at the destruction of these fine beasts, and, without further facts to consider, I find myself immediately jumping (no pun) to the conclusion of either (a) incompetence at the race-tracks, or (b) an ongoing insurance scam.
Controls are much tighter here in the UK, and this issue doesn't arise....so with obvious cause & effect... I opt for (b). - suttercain, on 06/16/2008, -4/+9Can't we just race th midget jockeys or the horse owners instead? If they get hurt we can put them down?
- deadapostle, on 06/16/2008, -0/+5Bread? I didn't think the cooked the oats before feeding the horses.
- sprintmarathon, on 06/16/2008, -3/+7J-E-L-L-O
- katorga, on 06/16/2008, -1/+4Imagine what the carbon footprint is for raising a race horse. The whole horse racing sport should be banned.
- dashboardradio, on 06/16/2008, -0/+3How about baseball players run around the track like horses?
- cambob76, on 06/16/2008, -1/+4I wish, when the time is right, that my life could be ended humanely... but wait, I'm not a cow, or a dog, or a cat. Guess I'll just rot of cancer for a few years and die slow, painful death because it would be too cruel to put me down...
- RetlawST, on 06/16/2008, -1/+3You're an animal, and animals were put here for me to use and eat.
om nom nom nom - godd4242, on 06/16/2008, -1/+3sorry, three a DAY?
- chanop, on 06/16/2008, -3/+5So, you're saying we need horses to play baseball?
- Drakk0n, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2nharpe is absolutely right - that number has to be put into better context. It is a very rare occurance to see a horse go down during a race the way any of the recent high profile ones have. If they want to say 3 a day put that into context with how many races and horses are on track on any given day. I know where I am stabled in AZ there are about 2K horses at the track on any given day - even non race days. Maybe once every couple of weeks horse goes down - due to age or illness - not necessarily on track injury. Yet those figures are accounted for in this article.
- RetlawST, on 06/16/2008, -1/+3This statistic is grossly inflated by counting ALL horses, and not just the ones who die in races.
- Fallout911, on 06/16/2008, -4/+6PETA was right.
- ZimbuTheMonkey, on 06/16/2008, -2/+4People like you are just asking for an alien takeover.
- chanop, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2Dude, you're from NY. You should know every sale/auction/destruction of a race horse doesn't get disclosed (I've never heard of it being required, but it might). I've been to horse auctions where there is only a transfer of money and animal. I live in an area where they train horses for Saratoga. I do agree with you that they test the horses for steroids, I'm pretty sure they even test the Jockey for steroids.
- TimDigg, on 06/16/2008, -1/+3"humanely slaughtered"
oxymoron?
I only eat burgers from humanely slaughtered cattle. Not that violently slaughtered crap. - RetlawST, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Heh, yeah. I was just recycling a comment made earlier about how the original statistic was counting all Thoroughbred horses and not just the racing ones.
- inactive, on 06/16/2008, -3/+4WILBUR!
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1It *is* a shame, but it's not a fact of life...it's a cruel industry.
- Recuso, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Astute observation.
- Metman, on 06/16/2008, -2/+3EVERY state that races horses are forced to disclose the sale/auction/destruction of horses breed to race or lose their license. Cases not reported include due to illness or natural causes (love sensationalism!). In addition, any owners/trainers caught using performance enhancing drugs (horses are required to submit to testing 3 times during a season) are banned from the sport. Some pesky little requirement from the Dept of Agriculture and NTRA. But hey! Way to be informed...
- dickybrown, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1I haven't heard of many standardbreds dieing on the track (the horses that pull the little carts - which I find much more entertaining)
- emaredubyou, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1we care when things we like die,
when things we don't like die, we eat them.
i mean come on, when was the last time you heard a little girl ask her parents for a cow? it's always mommy I want a pony, or a wii... - prleet, on 06/16/2008, -4/+4Now lets replace the horse with a dog and watch the digg maggits sway the other way. :)
- mtwoffice, on 03/01/2009, -0/+0It's a huge biz and of course, where that much money could be earned you will always find people who are looking for the turn over only. But, I think the main breeders are always have a relationship to their horses to give them also a life after there carreer
http://www.vera-fuerst.de - liberta, on 06/16/2008, -0/+0Its a shame, especially when you think what happens to retired race horses ( most get slaughtered as nobody wants them). But its a fact of life.
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xenbet.com - nydwarf, on 06/16/2008, -2/+1Buried because it *****.
- m8ymerc1, on 06/16/2008, -2/+1How many perfectly fine animals has PETA killed since 2003?
- pitdog, on 06/16/2008, -3/+2Every kind of animal performance selective breeding means lots of culling, be it racing horses, running dogs, fighting dogs, hunting dogs etc.
Buried as non-news. - dickybrown, on 06/16/2008, -2/+1are you kidding? the carbon footprint of horse racing? who gives a crap? - if you want to complain about the carbon footprint of auto racing or something, fine, but raising a race horse has very little to do with global warming.
Horses are bred and trained on farms - wide open spaces with lots of green things. - Hetman, on 06/16/2008, -4/+3I read the article and it didnt say how many thoroughbreds are in the US. If there are 100,000 thoroughbreds then 5,000 really is not that big of a number. If there is only 10,000 throughbreds then there is some serious problems with racing these horses.
- CardNation, on 06/16/2008, -2/+0Those figures are completely incorrect. The actual figure is 1 catastrophic breakdown for every 1000 starts.
- mngl, on 06/16/2008, -2/+0http://www.flickr.com/photos/seriyoz/333754952/ check this out
- skribble, on 06/16/2008, -3/+1Hmm... Seems like Darwinism at it's fines/worst (depending on your point of view). How many other animals have died doing something since 2003? It's not like people are breading horses to die... that I assure is not their goal (quite the opposite actually). The big issue here is that horses don't heal very well, a common sports injury for a pro X sport player puts a horse down (or they could string it along in great pain and hope for a miracle).
- orlyfactor, on 06/16/2008, -4/+2The same way that lame story about video cards that seems to date back to 1997 made it to the front page - someone broke the algorithm!
- Greengoo, on 06/16/2008, -4/+2But how many race horses win one race, then get put out to stud for the rest of their lives? I'd risk it!
- leerayIG88, on 06/16/2008, -8/+5*Cue Rocky Theme music*
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