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Originally Posted by clicknow
Yeah, let's blame PETA for what is happening in horse racing.
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Which is funny when PETA wasn't even mentioned or interviewed in the piece.
Was it one-sided? Yes, although after re-showing the 10 year old footage from Mountaineer about the "meat man", Goldberg at least admits that a lot of tracks have since put in policies against it. That's something, I guess.
But when Real Sports highlights the drug issues in North American racing....how the rest of the world has stricter standards, and less breakdowns...how certain elements in the industry keep opposing federal legislation that would bring America closer to those standards....what
is the other side of that story?
Because to me that's the question, and I don't think racing has a good answer. Just the usual infighting, with groups like the Jockey Club saying they want to change things, but groups x y and z won't let them.
Meanwhile, listening to today's CHRB meeting, and just like last month, there's a line of activists stepping up and making public comments against the sport, asking for a ballot measure, etc.
Too many people keep assuming that this negative attention is just going to go away...it should be obvious by now that it's not. So what is the industry actually going to do about it?
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