It's ironic that having elevated horses to a symbolic place above other animals, i.e., we seldom eat them in this part of the world, we seem not to care so much how they're treated by the whole of racing, from top to bottom.
As human sports go, are boxing and football exempt from personal moral scrutiny merely because people have a choice not to participate?
COMMENTARY: Reflecting on football, Junior Seau, LZ Granderson (ESPN.com)
... Although it is irresponsible, given the incomplete information available, to say Seau's tragedy is a result of football, you'd have to be somewhat of an idiot not to at least consider the possibility. There is just way too much information out there about other former players' suicides and subsequent discovery of brain damage.
These aren't the "he got the wind knocked out of him" or "he got his bell rung" days of the 1980s and '90s. Science has provided us with a new vocabulary, and we are now equipped with phrases such as "grade 3 concussion" and "chronic traumatic encephalopathy." We could claim ignorance before, but now we know better.
Yet our appetite for this destruction has only increased ...
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