Wonder if there will be a market for gasoline-powdered, or at least non-network connected, cars in the future. This sort of scenario makes me want to never buy an electric car, ever.
I drive an all-electric car with no remote connections at all, unlike this gas-powered Ferrari.
Is there some reason why this is downvoted? Most electric cars seem to have remote connections...
When poor rural families are doing fine, spending thirty bucks a month on feeding and caring for a horse is no problem. But poor families know they won't be doing fine forever. They can't afford to spend $800 on a horse they don't know they'll be able to sell at all if they need to do so suddenly. So, lots of kids who would have spent time around horses absent the ban, haven't.
Rich morons and the charities they support don't care about that. There are still markets in place for horses with economic value such as Thoroughbred race horses. Although, since they don't race their entire natural lives, Thoroughbreds have also been harmed by the slaughter ban.
The margin's thin
On treating large animals
Unless it's a purebred
Or more understandable
A racehorse of some kind
Just like people, horses in the modern world have an ascending scale of career options:
- being decorative
- being kind (to people, not necessarily to equids)
- being ornery, but better than one's peers at a competitive skill
(Actually, where I am, one declares if one's equids are to be legally treated as livestock or as companion animals. In the latter case, the vet can prescribe a much wider range of treatments, but one also incurs a duty to rescue[1], and can't put down purely for economic reason.)
[1] as in the human case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue#Civil_law_syste...