Many believe that riding horses is a harmless activity. Actually, aside from the fact that it is indeed quite harmful to horses to be ridden by humans (see link in first comment box below), the issue here is a much more important one — for the issue here is basic decency. Would you like to be “parked” in a tiny room and only let out when someone wanted to saddle you, hop on your back, and force you to go wherever they wanted to go? Of course you wouldn’t — and neither do horses! Indeed, even if you were given a lush field to lounge in before being forced to be ridden, you would still deeply resent having your basic liberty so blatantly & so regularly disregarded.
Slavery is slavery, my Friends, and horses are just as unfond of that kind of abuse as you or I would be … Peace.

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt