Burying the real issue, which is the millions in funding the government gives to horse racing each year.
They don’t even eat the greyhounds they kill.
The Irish horseracing industry has some fantastic PR, I’ll give them that.
Horse racing PR is good but there are cracks forming. The horse racing industry has massive elements of cruelty and disgusting behaviour. If they bring in a young horse, maybe a two year old, they will break it and train it almost into the ground. If it doesn’t make the cut off to the factory you go. Horses are very clever and very skittish so in that sort of a setting where you are going to shoot them in the head with a steel pin they don’t often go quietly.
It’s time Ireland wakes up and knocks the several big horse people off their pedestals and sorts this out. Remember the stories that break in the media are the ones that leaked and they are bad. The stories that are discussed in the horse industry are far worse.
My feeling is is that horse racing has about 10 years left in it in the current form. People are becoming intolerable of animal cruelty for our entertainment.
Now it has to be said there are trainers with one and two horses or maybe even several that treat their animals very well. My issues is the ones with the revolving door. Produce a foal, break it ride it and bate it up gallops. If it dies on the gallops no one ever knows.
If anyone is shocked by this probably, should probably ask why we support animal racing so much in Ireland where animal welfare doesn’t seem to be priority.
Eating cows good, eating horses bad. Got it.
The money pumped into the racing industry supports thousands of jobs in rural Ireland. We are also world leaders in breeding and racing.
Some horses will end up on the shelves in France and the continent, the same way thousands of cows end up on the shelves over here.
Thoroughbred horsemeat is a premium product so unless you are vegan I don’t see the issue here.
Nothing wrong with this.
delicous
i mean if the meat is treated for its quality and its not cross contaminated, whats so bad about eating it? i ate horse meat before in Italy. its rough but nice
Nom nom I miss the OG Tesco burgers
Is it grass fed horse meat?
I noticed an improvement in the quality of horse meat around that time
You goto France and you would pay a lot of this meat. Also for snails which we have in abundance.
With the Huguenots and such you would wonder how it never became popular here.
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Burying the real issue, which is the millions in funding the government gives to horse racing each year.
They don’t even eat the greyhounds they kill.
The Irish horseracing industry has some fantastic PR, I’ll give them that.
Horse racing PR is good but there are cracks forming. The horse racing industry has massive elements of cruelty and disgusting behaviour. If they bring in a young horse, maybe a two year old, they will break it and train it almost into the ground. If it doesn’t make the cut off to the factory you go. Horses are very clever and very skittish so in that sort of a setting where you are going to shoot them in the head with a steel pin they don’t often go quietly.
It’s time Ireland wakes up and knocks the several big horse people off their pedestals and sorts this out. Remember the stories that break in the media are the ones that leaked and they are bad. The stories that are discussed in the horse industry are far worse.
My feeling is is that horse racing has about 10 years left in it in the current form. People are becoming intolerable of animal cruelty for our entertainment.
Now it has to be said there are trainers with one and two horses or maybe even several that treat their animals very well. My issues is the ones with the revolving door. Produce a foal, break it ride it and bate it up gallops. If it dies on the gallops no one ever knows.
If anyone is shocked by this probably, should probably ask why we support animal racing so much in Ireland where animal welfare doesn’t seem to be priority.
Eating cows good, eating horses bad. Got it.
The money pumped into the racing industry supports thousands of jobs in rural Ireland. We are also world leaders in breeding and racing.
Some horses will end up on the shelves in France and the continent, the same way thousands of cows end up on the shelves over here.
Thoroughbred horsemeat is a premium product so unless you are vegan I don’t see the issue here.
Nothing wrong with this.
delicous
i mean if the meat is treated for its quality and its not cross contaminated, whats so bad about eating it? i ate horse meat before in Italy. its rough but nice
Nom nom I miss the OG Tesco burgers
Is it grass fed horse meat?
I noticed an improvement in the quality of horse meat around that time
You goto France and you would pay a lot of this meat. Also for snails which we have in abundance.
With the Huguenots and such you would wonder how it never became popular here.