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[–] 54 points 5 months ago* (16 children)

While everybody is laughing at the meme, hundreds (if not thousands) of horses are killed every year simply because they cannot race or are not profitable, many as young as two years old. https://horseracingwrongs.org/

To mention nothing of other cruel practices, among these forced separation from their mothers, nose chains, blinders, whips, over breeding, etc.

Breeding these animals is not funny, it is not a joke, and these breeders are awful people.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    They’re laughing at the name not that people breed racehorses??

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Right, but the animal would not have been named that if the people breeding these horses saw them as individuals instead of objects. "Just laughing at the name" completely ignores literally everything else connected to the name.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but horse names have always been a tad bit weird historically. Like who looks at a horse and goes "Hmmm yes you shall be Bucephalus"?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago*

    spent the weekend playing horsey game, if I was rich I would definitely be part of the problem.

    TitleRather than breeding horses for winning, I began a breeding line just for weight to sell for glue.

    Ended up with a breed of 3000lbs zebra with heads instead of legs to sell to the glue factory.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    Whilst people are reading that complaint, hundreds of thousands of grey hounds, cows, people, are dying or are going to die because of wars and the wealth imbalances of Capitalism.

    This also thwarts and corrupts the democracy we'd usually use to stop these species level threats.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    Yeah, and the Wendy's might as well serve the flesh of the slaughtered horses as well.

    Dismissing serious, actual life or death concerns with statements like "sir this is a Wendy's" only serve to further silence a group of individuals suffering without a voice.

    When I initially commented on this, literally none of the 20+ comments acknowledged the horrible reality the horse in the photo is/was forced to endure.

    If I posted a photo of a starving child with a funny name and everyone was simply laughing at the meme, would you say nothing?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    More than thousands of cattle are killed every year, too. Why is slaughtering horses worse than slaughtering cattle?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's not. I was trying to draw a similarity between how little "farm" animals are valued and how little these people value horses. If the meme was about a funny farmed cow name I would've made a similar comment.

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