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davidjtaylor · 14-03-2019 4:04pm #1

“It was either run really ****ing fast all my life or be destroyed by the stud farm”.

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Vexorg · 14-03-2019 5:21pm

It not clear from your post if you get the humor or are outraged?

davidjtaylor · 14-03-2019 11:56pm

:cool:

Satire wouldn’t be doing its job if it caused outrage.

gozunda · 16-03-2019 1:50am

Vexorg wrote: »

It not clear from your post if you get the humor or are outraged?

Yeah reckon a little more commentary is good tbh ...

Personally I find link dumping just leaves other posters trying to second guess the OP ....

auspicious · 21-03-2019 4:47pm

Dr Jo Swabe...

She said: “Horses are particularly sensitive ‘flight’ animals who can easily panic and spook if they can’t escape danger, and so the industrialised slaughter process itself can be especially cruel for them.

“Their instinctive desire to escape causes them to thrash their heads frantically, making it difficult to effectively stun them prior to slaughter.”

She said the same ethical concerns also apply to other animals.

https://m.herald.ie/news/22000-unwanted-irish-horses-end-up-on-the-dining-table-37844675.html

davidjtaylor · 22-03-2019 10:18am

Yes and horses lie on that peculiar boundary between prey and pets, illuminating humans’ (almost) boundless capacity for cognitive disssonance.

Satire has been used for centuries to point out ridiculousness in human behaviour but sadly it’s a slow process.

_Brian · 22-03-2019 12:30pm

I’m always fascinated by the social taboos around food. Irish meat eaters are very restricted in the animals consumed with shocking narrowing over a generation.
I think the abject poverty in Ireland and the intrinsic value on animals such as horses carved them a special respect and kept them off the dinner plate here. I’ve eaten horse in France and it’s no different to beef, thus it was so easily substituted into the beef chain a few years ago.

I can indeed see how they pose a particular problem in the slaughter process compared to say their bovine brethren.

Tar.Aldarion · 22-03-2019 12:57pm

auspicious wrote: »

Dr Jo Swabe...

She said: “Horses are particularly sensitive ‘flight’ animals who can easily panic and spook if they can’t escape danger, and so the industrialised slaughter process itself can be especially cruel for them.

“Their instinctive desire to escape causes them to thrash their heads frantically, making it difficult to effectively stun them prior to slaughter.”

She said the same ethical concerns also apply to other animals.

https://m.herald.ie/news/22000-unwanted-irish-horses-end-up-on-the-dining-table-37844675.html

Can you pelase give thought on links and passages that you post?

In general, I will be coming down harder on that in future as it's starting to plague the forum

davidjtaylor · 22-03-2019 1:27pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Can you pelase give thought on links and passages that you post?

In general, I will be coming down harder on that in future as it's starting to plague the forum

Hi TA. 'scuse me for being thick, but do you mean "don't just give a link and quote from it" without giving your reasons? It isn't entirely clear to me, sorry. If yes, I'll keep it in mind, I've done it.

Tar.Aldarion · 22-03-2019 1:44pm

Yes, that's right. Sometimes I've seen several posts in a row that are just essentially links to other sites and no input from users.

davidjtaylor · 22-03-2019 2:25pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Yes, that's right. Sometimes I've seen several posts in a row that are just essentially links to other sites and no input from users.

Thanks TA.

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