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Old 05-20-2014, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Dawgswin View Post
DOZENS of horses are dying at tracks each week ? Even if you agree wholeheartedly with PETA's position that no animal should be bred for entertainment or profit....statements like that are ridiculously irresponsible. Particularly for an othereise credible tv newsmagazine.
They're using the utterly manufactured NYTimes number, conjured out of charts of TB and QH races using 'broke down, vanned off, etc.' as the basis for average equine fatalities.
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