Brett:
Are you a vegan?
Not by a long shot Brett. Though your question raises valid implications on the potential off-shoots of my comments on horse racing; such as more abominations like factory farming. For this reason, upwards of 98% of the protein I eat is from line caught fish, cage free organic chicken and eggs, and protein powder.
I’d encourage you to be optimistic rainy.here because it’s already happened, just not to the extent of what is knowable.
You’ll remember this example of what I’m referring to:
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James_Smith:
Speaking of a completely unrelated subject…
Angela, there is way too much to objectively criticize regarding horse racing, both on moral/ethical grounds as well professional regarding the incompetence that is as rampant amongst horse trainers, perhaps even more so, as coaches of any human sport. Thus, I’d surmise the the proportion of track coaches who have borrowed ideas from equine training is likely to be proportional to the misguidedness that may be objectively identified in those track coaches methods.
Using horse racing for any positive analogy is, in my view, tantamount to attempting to find some positive analogy in what some slave owner’s tactics were to select and sustain slaves in the 1700s.
I state that because in 2015 alone there were 484 fatalities associated with training and competition http://jockeyclub.com/pdfs/eid_7_year_tables.pdf . Same as slavery, this is an inhumane abomination in any court of intellectual/moral/ethical honesty and if a mere proportion of that carnage were to occur in track and field or any other human sport we’d be sure to observe an immediate reckoning.
It’s astounding actually, that many people who would vilify cock fighting and dog fighting might be the same people cheering for their favorite horse; evidently completely oblivious that it’s all the same abhorrence.
Back to the subject, invariably, a comprehensive study (psychological, neurophysiological, biological, mechanical…) done on the world’s elite sprinters will reveal all that need be known regarding selection, still leaving all factors relating to coaching to discuss.
Best to reserve moral and ethical comments away from all sport in general and we don’t need to single out horses or horse owners as the bad guys.
The cock fighting comments are interesting.
I made a simple comment that track has historically borrowed ideas in the past from horse racing.