Horse Racing - Should it be banned?

[ozleicester]

5 hours ago, adam1 said:

Why would you ban wool clothes?

Many Australian farmers perform a barbaric procedure called “mulesing” even though it is not commonly practised anywhere else in the world. In mulesing, workers force live sheep onto their backs, restrain their legs between metal bars and, often without any painkillers whatsoever, cut chunks of flesh from the animals’ backsides or attach vice-like clamps to their flesh until it dies and sloughs off.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulesing

 

 

[adam1]

10 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Many Australian farmers perform a barbaric procedure called “mulesing” even though it is not commonly practised anywhere else in the world. In mulesing, workers force live sheep onto their backs, restrain their legs between metal bars and, often without any painkillers whatsoever, cut chunks of flesh from the animals’ backsides or attach vice-like clamps to their flesh until it dies and sloughs off.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulesing

 

 

Its a medical procedure. They then don't grow wool on that part (buttocks). This is so they dont get fly strike.

 

Nothing wrong with that at all imo

[Bert]

Just wondering why there’s been no uproar over the Scottish grand national today?

[Manwell Pablo]

21 hours ago, adam1 said:

Why would you ban wool clothes?

 

Seriously if your asking that question you don’t know what your dealing with, don’t argue with him, he’s the sort of extremist that would cause the sort of death and destruction that would be up there with history’s most vile historical figures going if he had any power. Thankfully the only power he’s got is the battery that powers his Toyota Prius. He’d have us all living in mud huts dying of the bubonic plague so long as the animals could run free, so needless to say he’s anti horse racing. 

 

Always been confused by the “choice” thing, animals are incapable of conscious choice they react on instincts. dunno how they work in third world countries like Australia but I’ve never heard of an animal being destroyed because they refused to get into the stalls, and talking in the broader sense I’m not entirely sure what people want. Should someone sit down with the Fole when it gets to an appropriate age and ask it what it wants to be when it grows up?

 

Although really don’t care if it’s banned as it’s shite anyway.

 

Having offended everyone in the entire thread I will now take my leave. 

[ozleicester]

13 hours ago, adam1 said:

Its a medical procedure. They then don't grow wool on that part (buttocks). This is so they dont get fly strike.

 

Nothing wrong with that at all imo

 

The skin and muscle is, torn, sliced, or ripped from their bodies and they are left to wander while it "heals".

 

Would you be happy to undergo this "Medical Procedure"  WITHOUT ANAESTHETIC?"

This cruelty is done for one reason, to make the production of wool for clothing cheaper.

[adam1]

5 hours ago, ozleicester said:

 

The skin and muscle is, torn, sliced, or ripped from their bodies and they are left to wander while it "heals".

 

Would you be happy to undergo this "Medical Procedure"  WITHOUT ANAESTHETIC?"

This cruelty is done for one reason, to make the production of wool for clothing cheaper.

No its to ensure that the animal does not suffer from fly strike. This would be an agonising death [pattern emerging - Peta a) kill animals and b) want them to suffer horrific deaths]. It is not about cheap production.

 

Medical procedure possibly the wrong term - animal husbandry procedure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[adam1]

15 hours ago, Bert said:

Just wondering why there’s been no uproar over the Scottish grand national today?

Or the Welsh in December... or the 315 at Newbury yesterday.

 

Aintree only has the uproar because the grand national is more well known.