Law

New Roundup Special Edition: Crap that surprises Kitsu

This roundup is made up of news that Kitsu can’t believe someone had to report. Not because of ridiculousness, but rather because it’s happening at all.

  • How Cocaine and Controversy Mixed With Soda – FEB 4, 2013 08:44 AM ET // BY ROSSELLA LORENZI
    I didn’t watch the superbowl commercials, but apparently their were accusations of discrimination based entirely on a story-based decision, and no one seemed to consider beforehand that there would be a story-based reason in the final commercial for why you couldn’t just vote whatever way you wanted all willy-nilly. Way to assume the worst, people.
  • Women in Paris Can Now Wear Pants – FEB 4, 2013 01:30 PM ET // BY AMANDA ONION
    It’s mindblowing in the modern world that this law, while invalidated by other laws and accepted cultural changes, is still on the books at all. And this news story does not report the removal of the law, only a public statement that the law has been invalidated. Or rather “the implicit abrogation of the order”, because plain language isn’t french enough, apprently.
  • What Causes Early Puberty in Girls? – FEB 8, 2013 09:00 AM ET // BY SHEILA M. ELDRED
    First off, how did I not catch something before now that the new ages for early onset puberty is 6-7 (variation is based on race)? And, how did I miss the story about the nine year old who got raped and ended up giving birth. Just… Holy crap. As if the idea of being a parent wasn’t scary enough… Now you have to worry about pregnant pre-teens?

And down here are a few bonus stories that are too cool to just delete from my feeds, but are edging towards out of date:

A Big Step Forward for Ending Big Lick

Original Article

USEF Bans Action Devices for Gaited Horses

By Pat Raia • Jan 25, 2013 • Article #31268

 

Kitsu’s Commentary on it!

For a long time horses have been being knowingly tortured. Between “soring” (intentionally harming the animals so that they’ll lift their legs higher), attaching massive shoes to the feet (to exaggerate the gait without caring about the longterm damage to the animal) Big Lick horses live rough lives. Just so that they can make a mockery of the smooth way of going the breed is intended to have.

Just check out this video to see the useless way these animals are made to move! There’s nothing of what they were in that!

And now the USEF has banned soring outright, along with all “action devices” designed to annoy the animals into walking funny.

It will be interesting to see what SHOW (The organization trying to protect these depraved practices. Ironically, the acronym means “Sound Horses, Honest Judging, Objective Inspections, Winning Fairly”) does. They claim that the HPA (Horse Protection Act) permits the devices they use to get the unnatural gait, and seem to take issue with having to actually exhibit animals moving naturally.