KHRC clears Asmussen: PETA 'claims' unsubstanciated

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Good for them, good try. I love our game but I support their efforts because I think there is some truly outrageous and disgraceful stuff that needs to change. It seems like way too many people hide their heads in the sand and look the other way instead of aspiring to be leaders and to begin to make all that is wrong with the sport right.

PETA is contemptible and I don't support their efforts in the slightest. They don't want to clean up horse racing, this is merely their attempt to chip away until they end it. They won't be happy until it's over. The idea of doing anything with animals for entertainment includes horse racing, horse shows, etc. I once had to spend time with a girl into that stuff who refused to ride in a cart in a foreign country pulled by a horse. We explained to her that that was his job and it's in a rural community that mainly used animals so it's not like they could bust out an SUV. She didn't care, she refused and walked.

Instead of fighting to end slaughter and prevent transport to slaughter, they support it because in their opinion it's the lesser of two evils compared with putting horses in a transport out of the country to do it. What? What about ending it full stop? PETA euthanizes thousands of healthy animals a year because they feel they're better off dead than being adopted--members of PETA once adopted 3 perfectly healthy dogs including purebreds the shelter warned them were highly adoptable, then took them to be euthanized and dumped their bodies behind a Burger King. Their shelter in Maryland has a 90% kill rate.

Support Old Friends. Support TRF (whatever BS the NY Times might try to make up). Support retraining programs. Don't support bad people because they mean well. PETA is not someone you side with because 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.' They are nothing but the enemy. They'd try to convince you that Jimmy Jerkins was inhumane if they could. I don't love Asmussen, but fair is fair.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

PETA is contemptible and I don't support their efforts in the slightest. They don't want to clean up horse racing, this is merely their attempt to chip away until they end it. They won't be happy until it's over. The idea of doing anything with animals for entertainment includes horse racing, horse shows, etc. I once had to spend time with a girl into that stuff who refused to ride in a cart in a foreign country pulled by a horse. We explained to her that that was his job and it's in a rural community that mainly used animals so it's not like they could bust out an SUV. She didn't care, she refused and walked.

Instead of fighting to end slaughter and prevent transport to slaughter, they support it because in their opinion it's the lesser of two evils compared with putting horses in a transport out of the country to do it. What? What about ending it full stop? PETA euthanizes thousands of healthy animals a year because they feel they're better off dead than being adopted--members of PETA once adopted 3 perfectly healthy dogs including purebreds the shelter warned them were highly adoptable, then took them to be euthanized and dumped their bodies behind a Burger King. Their shelter in Maryland has a 90% kill rate.

Support Old Friends. Support TRF (whatever BS the NY Times might try to make up). Support retraining programs. Don't support bad people because they mean well. PETA is not someone you side with because 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.' They are nothing but the enemy. They'd try to convince you that Jimmy Jerkins was inhumane if they could. I don't love Asmussen, but fair is fair.

I am embarassed that i gave the peta report any credence when it first came out. But, people tend to project their traits onto others, which is why it didnt occur to me that they had taken footage and severely edited it so as to paint asmussen in the worst possible light. Had they a leg to stand on, had they had what they needed, there would have been no need to do so. They disgust me, they have no credibility whatsoever, and their refusal to work with the investigation is the icing on the cake.
not good for them, not a nice try. Bad behavior by some in this sport should be stopped, but that end wont be justified if these are the means to that end.

They should face charges and suits over this.