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    While everybody is laughing at the meme, hundreds (if not thousands) of horses are killed every year simply because they cannot race or are not profitable, many as young as two years old. https://horseracingwrongs.org/

    To mention nothing of other cruel practices, among these forced separation from their mothers, nose chains, blinders, whips, over breeding, etc.

    Breeding these animals is not funny, it is not a joke, and these breeders are awful people.

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        Yeah, and the Wendy’s might as well serve the flesh of the slaughtered horses as well.

        Dismissing serious, actual life or death concerns with statements like “sir this is a Wendy’s” only serve to further silence a group of individuals suffering without a voice.

        When I initially commented on this, literally none of the 20+ comments acknowledged the horrible reality the horse in the photo is/was forced to endure.

        If I posted a photo of a starving child with a funny name and everyone was simply laughing at the meme, would you say nothing?

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            It’s not. I was trying to draw a similarity between how little “farm” animals are valued and how little these people value horses. If the meme was about a funny farmed cow name I would’ve made a similar comment.

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                They value the horses as objects and property, not as individual beings with their own unique experience of the world.

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        Right, but the animal would not have been named that if the people breeding these horses saw them as individuals instead of objects. “Just laughing at the name” completely ignores literally everything else connected to the name.

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          Yeah but horse names have always been a tad bit weird historically. Like who looks at a horse and goes “Hmmm yes you shall be Bucephalus”?

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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      spent the weekend playing horsey game, if I was rich I would definitely be part of the problem.

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      Rather than breeding horses for winning, I began a breeding line just for weight to sell for glue.

      Ended up with a breed of 3000lbs zebra with heads instead of legs to sell to the glue factory.

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    Got a cousin who works with horses and horse breeding and all that jazz.

    Likely that this name is just a portmanteau of the mare and sire of this particular horse.

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    iirc the horse names must be unique and may not contain numbers and stuff. And since virtually all real names are taken, random words are all that is left. (that doesnt explain this name though)

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    1. Jeez his face looks derpy
    2. It’s weird that the name has no spaces, but whatever, “kid’s lookin’ untouchable” seems par for the course for stupid horse names
    3. I bet in a couple of years some japanese game will turn this into a waifu.
    4. *reads comments, looks at name closer*
    5. What the FUC-