So if you watched any news channel yesterday or today, a great deal of talk centered on the euthanization of Kentucky Derby winning horse Barbaro. For those who don't know, Barbaro got his leg broken in a race shortly after winning the Derby. A broken leg in a human isn't a problem, a broken leg in a horse means shortly gracing someone's dinner table in the form of Jell-O or being ingested by a Kindergartner in the form of Elmer's glue.
For the last eight months, trainers have spent millions of dollars on surgeries and rehab so that the horse could live. The only comment I can come up with is, it's just a horse.
Do you realize that every 8 seconds, someone in the world dies of AIDS? This is, of course, something that doesn't get a great deal of press, because a vast majority of those cases are poor Africans. How can we mourn the loss of a freaking horse and not give a crap about the fact that millions of people will die this year of AIDS? Or how about the fact that 40,000 children die everyday of malnutrition. I like horses as much as the next guy (assuming you like horses), but what is the life of a horse compared to the lives of human beings? Where's the consistency?
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Last night I couldn't sleep and ended up watching CNN replaying Anderson Cooper 360 from that evening. It was about the nearly 1000 amputees that are adjusting to a new life after the Iraq war. Men and women missing entire arms, legs and countless other parts that make us full humans. At one point they were interviewing this 25 year-old who no longer had a face... I started crying for him and the number on both sides of the fight that are going to have parts of themselves taken away.
And at the bottom of the screen, running every ten minutes, was the news of Barbaros death. There is no consistency...
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