The Cruel Life and Tragic Death of Delta Outlaw Gives the Lie to “They’re Like Our Children”

Horseracing Wrongs Delta Outlaw was bred into existence by Blue Heaven Farm on February 15, 2012. At some point, probably before his first birthday, he was SOLD. He was first put to the whip, at the tender age of two, at Monmouth in September 2014 under trainer George Weaver and owner R. A. Hill Stable.…

Belmont Equals Santa Anita With 43rd Death of 2019

Horseracing Wrongs The dead bodies – for gambling and entertainment, I remind – continue to pile up at Belmont Park (43 on the year, in case anyone’s lost count). Yesterday, the Gaming Commission reports, Solar Fire, two, “sustained a r elbow fracture in his stall” and was euthanized. The Commission, of course, will categorize this…

Last Week’s “Vanned”

Horseracing Wrongs Last week in U.S. Thoroughbred and Quarterhorse Racing Strong Mandy “vanned off” at Fair Grounds Ursa “fell, DNF” at Penn Cosmic Cat “went wrong, vanned off” at Fair Grounds Astrokeg “went wrong, vanned off” at Penn Saddle Club “vanned off” at Los Alamitos Master Legionaire “fell, DNF” at Mahoning Delta Outlaw “vanned off”…

Santa Anita’s Back – and so is the Killing

Horseracing Wrongs Buried deep in the ethically-challenged John Cherwa’s Santa Anita kickoff column in the LA Times last evening was this: “However, there was a fatality Dec. 26…Truest Reward, a 3-year-old gelding, broke his left front leg on the training track…” Perhaps he and the Times thought no one would notice – especially with the…

Politically Incorrect: I oppose vaccines not because of quack science, but because producing them causes unspeakable suffering of innocent animals.

https://legacyofpythagoras.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/vaccination-is-anti-vegan/   Before the Armory came into being, I was publishing Notes on my Facebook profile which I called political grenades, weapons to be wielded in the war for animal rights. Those modest apothegms and observations have grown to over twenty five hundred grenades and articles. In addition to regular articles, the Armory has begun…

You’re Not So Different From an Octopus: Rethinking Our Relationship to Animals

Originally posted on Exposing the Big Game:
We are on the cusp of revolutionizing the way we understand the animal world, says naturalist Sy Montgomery.FRED TANNEAU / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES BY Leslie Crawford, Truthout PUBLISHED December 27, 2019 https://truthout.org/articles/youre-not-so-different-from-an-octopus-rethinking-our-relationship-to-animals/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=79e5e3ca-4f65-484b-8d01-89cded5c1488 Remember back when we were all tubes? Sy Montgomery does. That was a simpler time,…

Politically Incorrect: House Democrats should have embraced Tulsi’s Motion to Censure. Instead, they handed Trump his second term.

Tulsi’s “Present” vote was a condemnation of both Trump and the Democratic leadership. Trump was guilty of war crimes, human rights violations, taking bribes under the Emoluments Clause, and illegally backing coups against democratically elected governments in Venezuela and Bolivia. But the articles of impeachment addressed none of Trump’s actual crimes, for the very simple…