Ricky Gervais & PETA slam the Grand National for animal abuse and horse deaths

[spankmypirate]

Why would you gamble with a horse's life for fun? #YouBetTheyDie pic.twitter.com/Jej3fdYZPL
- Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) April 6, 2019

Comments

[emmanium]

They're not wrong at all. Poor horses.

[veov10]

there's too much money in racing for tptb to care.
we'd need 90%+ of the public to support a ban for anything to be done, i'd say.
fox killers get away with their fake 'trail hunts' despite hunting with hounds being against the law (though some conservatives would love to revert that), and the public being heavily against hunts.

[mz_prodigette]

I'm from Louisville, Kentucky and every year we have The Kentucky Derby where people celebrate horse racing and makes it a two week event. I feel so bad for the horses and many of them don't live very long.

[mhfromnh]

I don't understand the people who gather to watch it but don't bust out the crazy hats and mint juleps, like what even is the point unless you're drunk and looking like a fool?

[mz_prodigette]

I like to drink and go to cookouts but have never gone to the track. Fist fights have been happening at the actual Derby

[mhfromnh]

I'm in New England and have been to a thing where everyone sat around watching and was bored out of my mind.

[sashwizzled]

I only just realised that hashtag is meant to be "you bet, they die" and not "you bet they die". oop@me

[dragonheart97]

I think you're good because either way it can be read is applicable tbh

[teenxwolf]

lmao. the horses die? you bet they do!

[peddlestools]

Remember that hbo show where all the horses died