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Kate 23:08 on 2021-10-05 Permalink Reply  

• John B 07:02 on 2021-10-06 Permalink

  Ces chevaux vivent « dans l’obscurité et dans des conditions indignes »

  Maybe if we didn’t want them to live in obscurity we should let them do their work in town….

  There’s nothing in the article that actually backs up the idea that the horses are poorly treated or living in poor conditions. True, its not a wild open field, but many horses don’t have that. I see them out in the yard from time to time when biking by, and the guy seems to care for them when I see him out with them.

  I think by more or less banning horses from town we missed an opportunity to make our city quieter and more human- (and animal), scale. If the city is “too dangerous” for the horses, maybe its also too dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. Maybe the city needs to change, not the animals.

• Kate 09:32 on 2021-10-06 Permalink

  There are animal rights activists who think we should not “own” animals at all, and that the only ethical thing to do is let them roam freely. Shoeing horses, keeping them in a stable, riding them or having them do any work, seems unnatural and even cruel to some folks.

• Kevin 10:55 on 2021-10-06 Permalink

  Kate
  15,000 years of history…

• Kate 14:10 on 2021-10-06 Permalink

  Kevin: Yes. And they’ve been bred so they’re not wild animals any more, they were not a species native to North America in the first place, and we don’t have wild areas where we can just turn horses loose.

• Blork 14:52 on 2021-10-06 Permalink

  Sable Island. 🙂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable_Island

• MarcG 19:20 on 2021-10-06 Permalink

  Their hearts and in the right place (ex righteous vegan here) but as said already, anthropology and agriculture lessons are in order.