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Horse population peaked? So what? That assumes the population number is an indicator on their quality of life. However, as the allegory indicates, a horse's qua
by musingsole 6y ago
Horse population peaked? So what? That assumes the population number is an indicator on their quality of life. However, as the allegory indicates, a horse's quality of life today is leagues better than what it once was. Better feed, better health care. A good barn is a harder to come by, but what "good barn" means is a raising bar by the day. Pretty good odds of making it into your late 20's.
There's fewer horses now, but it's not like they were taken en masse out back and shot in the head (though that certainly happened to some). They just aren't bred as much. I don't think anyone (horses included) bemoan that.
If horses are the comparison, then I don't think humans have a thing to worry about.
- adwf 6y agoThat logic only works because we have no issue with slaughtering horses en masse. It'll take 100+ years of economic deprivation for the human population to balance out.
- musingsole 6y agoSome humans have issue slaughtering horses en masse. But still, I don't follow your point. Horses WERE NOT slaughtered. They were just bred at a point lower than replacement.
- burlesona 6y agoActually they were slaughtered. > Processing wild horses into chicken food in the 1930s reached its peak, when nearly 30 million pounds of horse flesh were canned. http://netnebraska.org/basic-page/television/wild-horses-slaughter http://netnebraska.org/basic-page/television/wild-horses-sla...