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Activists Protest Horse Race
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 Sunday March 09, 2008 19:24 by Laura Broxson - National Animal Rights Association naracampaigns at gmail dot com PO Box 11019, Dublin 2
ACTIVISTS PROTEST HORSE RACE
***PRESS RELEASE from the NATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION***
Yesterday, Sat. 8th March, members of NARA staged a protest at Gowran Park Race Course, Co. Kilkenny.
For over two hours, the activists shouted chants, handed out leaflets, and held posters with slogans such as "Horse Racing = Pain, Gowran Park is to Blame!" printed on them. The protest was to highlight the cruelty of the horse racing industry.
"15,000 horses are bred every year, between Ireland and the U.K., for the racing industry" says spokesperson for the group, Laura Broxson.
"Only a third of these horses make it on to become racers - hundreds of whom actually die, or are killed, during the course of a race. Thousands more are slaughtered, just because they are no longer of any use to their 'owners'."
"Most are sent to Horse Abattoirs, such as the one in Straffan, Co. Kildare, where they are murdered for the meat trade.
Others are exported to foreign countries to be killed - a trade which has been operating on an on-going basis for years. It operates with no controls and involves the systematic export of live horses from Ireland in a way that is cruel and ignores EU Legislation.
Some even end up in laboratories, where they are used in live experiments." she added.
The group hopes to persuade people not to attend horse races, which will result in the timely demise of the industry.
***Photos of the protest are available on request.***
SPOKESPERSON: Laura Broxson 086 8729 444
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8QUOTE "Most are sent to Horse Abattoirs, such as the one in Straffan, Co. Kildare, where they are murdered for the meat trade.
A horse is property.
You cannot murder property.
Mr Ed.
You are correct, nonhuman animals are classified as property, albeit sentient property meaning one cannot treat one's animal property as one may treat a DVD collection. However, it is true that nonhumans can be bought, sold, and swapped just like stamps. When an animal property owner is tired of her property, she can arrange to kill her - and even do it herself so long as no "unnecessary suffering" is involved.
The property status of animals is one of the things that animal rights theory seeks to challenge. You can look forward with baited breath for Professor Gary Francione's 2008 book, Animals As Persons, published by Columbia University Press.
rogy.
There was a time that human beings were seen as property.
Fair play to the protesters who took part in this demonstration. It's time we in Ireland had a national conversation about horse racing and greyhound racing, both of which are, which are similar to bull fighting in that they involve needless suffering of animals for human gratification.
excuse you, a specifics asside, people used to think they owned women, peole used to think they owned 'slaves'. we use the same theory to horses in fact every animal, so theyre non human animals but theyre stil living, breathing, sentient beings who ARE being murdered for their meat, because no one gives a human the right to think they saughter a creature to satisfy their palate. and this should be obvious to people who thin animals are property, wake up!! and realise the activists that were there yesterday were raising awareness about the cruelty of the racing industry band you have to criticise them about saying horses arent murdered because theyre property!! get a alife!!!!!!!!!
Horses are only 'property' because we made them that way. When it comes down to it, they are the same as us, just different species. They are living creatures which are clearly intelligent and have feelings.
They are treated as property because humans are arrogant enough to think its our right to control other living things, and its mostly for entertainment or money. We may think humans are at the top, but what other animal kills not only the very planet it needs to survive as well as other living creatures, but themselves as well. Hmmm??? Seems like a course of destruction to me.
Also, murder is murder.
Even when regarded as property, horses still are living things. Nowdays, we dont even kill them to survive. We just do. Every life is important, and should be respected. So in cases where the best course is to put them down, they need to be treated humanly.
Same animals are now and always have been a money spinner.
I was once married to a bookies daughter and on Grand National Day I Was expected to travel from Bray To Greystones
at the end of racing to drive HIM back to Bray with 2 Briefcases over flowing with Paper money to fund his ongoing career.
Never Trust A Bookie .