Oh, I know exactly what that memes. And it memes I wasn't sure if you're insane, but apparently you are.
The rest of the Olympics doesn't involve forcing an animal to perform for peoples' amusement.
By the Emperor, have you ever been near a horse?
Forcing? Good fucking luck forcing an horse to do shit for you, especially such difficult stuff you have at Olympics. You'd lose the Olympic and possibly even your health because the horse would murder the fuck out of you if you were evil murderous overlord. Horses are half tonne mountains of muscle, equipped with hard hooves and pretty nasty bite... and the guy who supposedly is forcing it to do stuff? He's on top of it, in pretty unstable saddle with a piece of string to hold himself onto (not really effective really, the reins aren't made for that) and keep two wobbly sticks to put his boots in.
I mean, fuck, right, there is proably some pain and pushing the limits but it doesn't really differ from what human athletes do (but you would be far from reality if you thought it was only on the horse, competetive riding (and actually riding at all) is, pretty suprisingly actually (I had no idea either before) fucking exhausting) and the horse is fucking fine. The relationship between the rider and the horse is usually more of companionship, those aren't really random horses. Most of them have grown up with their riders (God Emperor, if I had someone to talk to me as people talk to their horses...) and if the horses are provided by the competition (which I honestly have never heard of, but that might be a thing on high-level ones) they proably are treated way better than their riders anyways.
Goddamnit, as a Pole (I wish we got our equestrian traditions back and running strong) and someone who rides horses I am literally personally offended by the idea that riding on horses is somehow cruel. Fuck, usually it's the horse that wants to ride around more than the human (who doesn't really have that much time while horses basically only have one thing they do for enjoyment, which is PRANCING AROUND HAPPILY BECAUSE THEY ARE HAPPY TO RUN AND THE DUDES ON THEIR BACKS GIVE THEM APPLES THEY LIKE APPLES THEY LIKE PRANCING THEY LIKE THE DUDES. LIFE IS GREAT) I mean, right, if you make it cruel but I am very fucking sure that would not go unnoticed by either the horse or the overseeing organizations and the rider would be punished.
Also, technically, humans are animals too and I could point at a few countries where winning at the Olympics is quite literally a matter of life and death, so... proably there are countries where they treat horses with cruelty, but they proably also do the same thing with humans
*COUGH* china *COUGH COUGH*.
I'll fight for that horse's right to become a delicious piece of jerky.
Seriously though, horseflesh is delicious.
Aaaand that's something I don't really approve of.
Only mongoloid barbarians eat their horses, civilized Winged Hussars care for them, buy them armour and then fuck mongoloids in ass with lances because mongoloids ate all their horses. Though if the horse is already dead/dying and you're really hungry I suppose it's acceptable. But killing horses just for the meat because it tastes good? Fuck. No.
Especially if the horse in question is going to be made into fucking wieners as it's customary when they are sold to butcher shops. Throw a whole horse, some other random animals and plastic in, sasuages come out. Not even a dime of respect.
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