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Originally Posted by GMB@BP
People love the horses, but in the end they are a vehicle to economic sustainability, they are live stock and not pets.
No one wants to hear that and obviously the scale on feelings about stuff like that will vary but my personal experience working in Ky at both the farm and the track you certainly get that feeling a bit.
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There can be different categories within categories.
You can have performance stock, for example. Look at rodeos and the Pro Bull Riding animals. I can't think of anyone who breeds, raises, and campaigns a high class bucking bull just to send it to the feed lot.
Sure, horses can be considered livestock depending on what people do (or don't do) with them, but racehorses, jumpers, and other sport horses are intended to participate in athletic endeavors.
Also consider that racehorses receive all kinds of medications and therapeutics that aren't meant to enter the human food chain.
