jakelafort

“Come on. They cluster around competitions where horses are overdriven so that people can make money on the competitions and speculate on race horse genetics. Are you totally blind to that fact?”

Races are year round in USA. How is the period before KY derby different from any other period? There is always an incentive to win. You’d have to show…

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Little House on the Prairie. Charming stories of pioneering America’s prairielands or Ayn Randesque libertarian propaganda?

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen,

The point being made wasn’t that businesses raised prices because market forces forced them to but that some businesses raised prices behind a false claim or false impression that they had to. The operative descriptor being “false.” Business A watches business B raise prices because their supplier is exper…

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jakelafort wrote:

Unseen, i agree that the INDUSTRY would end. However horse racing would continue on a limited basis. There is a long history of humans being attracted to races. Whether it is other humans, dogs or horses.

Not only races competitions to be wagered on with all kinds of stakes from money (of course) to if your (whatever) beats…[Read more]

@Jake

Let’s bring this to an end. To my mind, gambling is the only reason there’s a horse racing industry and the presence of a profit motive is the main driver behind the race horse deaths. Take the money out of it, and the motivation to overdrive the animals will be greatly reduced.

However, like eating meat, horse racing is one of those…[Read more]

So, the band has committed to a promo with a Montreal radio station (call letters CHOM). However, Ale can’t make it so do they cancel? No, they show up and wing it as a duo of Dany and Pau. Pau does a lot of the singing. Interesting and shows their professionalism. The audience loved them.

jakelafort wrote:

Most racing thoroughbreds, however, are treated like gold. They are expensive investments to purchase and maintain. I think the stable hands often have it tougher than the horses. I would be fine with racing appaloosas, paints and arabians. Those breeds are much less frail and subject to injury or fatal breakdowns.

We all have…[Read more]

@Jake

An idiosyncrasy is a “peculiarity or oddity of behavior or attitude.” What makes liking meat or treating some creatures differently from others “idiosyncratic” when it is so universal? As for the horrific conditions, our own lives involve horror, especially here in America where I very likely may die a horrible death because I simply can’t…[Read more]

onyangomakagutu wrote:

Is that really the hill you want to make your last stand on?

Well, corporations have been doing this all along. Not that it is the right thing to do. Maybe the Fed should have intervened in the market to control prices because i don’t see how individual businesses operating in a free market economy would not respond to i…

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jakelafort wrote:

So it is on an individual basis in terms of how we ascribe value and love to certain animals. Concomitantly we rip into our steak while there is nothing to distinguish the value of the ill-treated and ultimately slaughtered as meat for our table from the beloved kitten. Likewise silly narratives and ideology make us look askance…

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Is that really the hill you want to make your last stand on?

Well, corporations have been doing this all along. Not that it is the right thing to do.

Maybe the Fed should have intervened in the market to control prices because i don’t see how individual businesses operating in a free market economy would not respond to inflation pressures in the market.

@PB

I know what you mean, in a way. I have some of their lyrics going through my mind when I’m taking a shower, for example (“Mayday. Mayday. This ship is going down”).

I am infatuated by them. I’ve described them in Youtube comments as the only band I’m aware of that people are falling in love with.  Hence the Warning Army phenomenon. If they…[Read more]

@Jake

Probably the #1 thing we could do to reduce the human footprint is to drastically reduce the number of humans down to somewhere what it was when those Siberians walked across the ice bridge into North America.

Blaming meat eating on Christianity is overthinking it. People were eating mammals, birds, and fish long before Abraham. Even in…[Read more]

Is a unified homogenous global approach dictated by the World Health Organization a good thing? Many countries are considering signing on to a WHO treaty that would do just that.

The WHO is dominated by China, Big Pharma, and private megadonors like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is…[Read more]

I’ve been taking a break here, as earworms lasting almost three weeks now are still subsiding.

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unless the mother says otherwise. But no public health care for it, except maybe in Florida. And (by the way), BLAME GOD for it.

And name it Terry, as in Shiavo. I’m feeling like being really dark today.

I watched that movie during the week. It had the potential to be good but if you don’t watch it you will have missed nothing.  It was just too long.