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Originally Posted by Dawgswin
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.
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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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