Thank you for the invite. Some information as requested - This is for both non-vegans and those vegan equestrians: HARM OF RIDING STUDY By Maksida Vogt Preface The horse is not made to be ridden. The horse should not be ridden at the cost of his health. This is a daily practice preformed by people who even claim to love their horses. Love which causes damage and pain to another creature is a sick love. Throughout the whole of human history, people have done horrible things to animals and to each other out of lack of education and lack of development. Now, in a time of abundant knowledge and developmental growth, it is time to show that this damage and pain is still happening with horses… through the people who ride and use them for their own pleasure or profit. I state that there is no one, single horse who likes to be ridden. We would like to believe they like it, but that does not make it true. It is time to rethink tradition and to face the facts. Horses usually suffer silently, but when one sees behaviors and actions such as these, the horse is suffering: - Horse jerks or flinches while being groomed - Horse dishes the back ventrally when touched - Horse refuses to give a hoof for cleaning - Particular body regions are very hot - Horse prefers one body position, such as: holding head only on one side or the other, tail only on one side or the other, only one hind leg is exonerated, not the other, etc. - Horse presses it’s head against solid objects - Grinding of teeth, wind sucking, cribbing, chewing on ropes - Horse does not want to move - Head shaking - Horse defends himself, raises (rears), bucks, kicks under or out behind, holds head extreamly high - Horse is lame If your horse is lame, then you should know that your horse suffers pain. There are many people who can see or feel what is going on in a horses body and many of these people have nothing to do with horses, meaning that they do not have them or do not desire anything from them. This is a very interesting subject, as those people have no difficulties in understanding even the most complicated biomechanical mechanism just by feeling and common sense. It seems that only people who want to use the horse in some way need proof of this causing of damage and pain. I think bringing to light the ethical reasons one should not use another creature for one’s own aims and desires should be enough, but I am aware that there are people who have no such atittude. So it is nessary that now, we must go deeper into this subject with scientific knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:22:04 +0000
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