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.…

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…

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”…

  They don’t wet themselves when a dog barks at them. And then kill him.   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, aphorisms, and observations have grown to over…

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…

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…

Originally posted on Fahrenheit451Bookstore :
  Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) 27 December 2019 Amid a global upsurge of political protests and strikes, governments all over the world are shutting down the internet in desperate bids to stem the tide of popular opposition. According to preliminary data from Access Now,…

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,…