Double Standards

[anotheoldgit]

It's day one of the Cheltenham Festival, soon to be followed by The Grand National, horses will be groomed and put through their paces, some will fall at the fences, and some may even die.

I don't think there will ever be the likelihood of the BBC or any other TV station banning the screenings of these events. I ask this since the BBC thought it wise to ban Crufts.

Why the double standards?

[kita1]

In one word - money.

It is not just the ones that die on the race course, what about all the race horses/foals that are slaughtered for the meat trade? They don't all have a nice retirement in green fields.

http://horseracingshame.blogspot.com/2009/02/u k-racehorse-slaughter-foal-killing.html

This is one paragraph from the above:

"A few weeks ago, for example, the eight-year-old chestnut gelding, Cash King, which came sixth in a field of 16 at Aintree last May and won thousands of pounds in prize money, was rescued by an animal charity as he was about to be loaded onto a lorry for the slaughterhouse. A stable lad alerted the charity to the horse's plight"

Unlike pedigree dogs that don't make the grade for whatever reason the failed race horses are not very often sold to pet homes, the vast majority end up as meat, either for pet food here or for human food abroad. The ones that are slaughtered in this country are the lucky ones, at least they don't have to endure the travel abroad to be slaughtered in foreign lands.

Don't get me started on the double standards of the BBC!!!!!!

Especially as they are now using a show dog (St. Bernard) in Eastenders!!!!!

[Roughquest]

The reason the BBC have decided to no longer give viewing space to Crufts is because dog breeding is cruel. Breeding dogs for vanity i.e. shorter noses, smaller heads, shorter legs, more skin, no skin, longer bodies, etc...too much interbreeding as the recent disturbing TV documentary showed not too long ago. Race horses are not subject to this interbreeding and are primarily bred for other reasons - racing, horses are trained to race, they do enjoy it. Dogs however are bred for their looks and to be a better breed standard, which leads to hereditary defects and inherent suffering throughout the dogs life....which IMHO is unforgivable.

[kita1]

So these breeders are cruel?

http://crufts.fossedata.co.uk/


And the breeder who bred Cash King (my answer above) to win him/her thousands of pounds and then to be sent to the slaughterhouse at the tender age of 8 years old (horses can live 20/30 years) is not!!!!


By the way many dogs enjoy 'showing' - just look at the people who show/breed their dogs on here, they are certainly not cruel people.