Horses love to run. But do they love to race? What is life like for a race horse, or the mother of a race horse, or its wet nurse?
Do horses have a right not to be used like this? Do all animals have a right not to be used and killed for food? Should we all be vegan? Is dairy/eggs vegetarianism any better? How about locavorism? Ethics Forward speaks to animal ethicist Hannah Lowdermilk about these burning questions as Triple Crown season gears up.
Music is "Prettiest Tree on the Mountain" by Ben Sollee courtesy of SonaBLAST records. http://www.sonablast.com/artists/#/bensollee/
Cover photo is Kentucky Derby 2014 By Bill Brine (Flickr: Kentucky Derby 2014-0214) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kentucky_Derby_2014-0214.jpg)