PETA to Hillary Clinton: apologize
When PETA president Ingrid E. Newkirk heard that Hillary Clinton had placed a Kentucky Derby bet on Eight Belles - the horse that broke both her ankles and had to be euthanized - she dashed off a letter earlier this month.
“I hope that everybody will go to the Derby on Saturday and place just a little money on the filly for me,” Sen. Clinton told supporters las week. “I won’t be able to be there this year - my daughter is going to be there and so she has strict instructions to bet on Eight Belles.”
“Horse racing is as indefensible as dog fighting, and Sen. Clinton must step up immediately and condemn it as animal abuse,” said Newkirk. “Eight Belles and countless other horses abused in the racing industry suffer horrendously and die just so that people can bet on them as though they were poker hands.”
“PETA takes no position on whether you win or lose the race you are in,” the letter said, “but we call on you to publicly reject betting on such hideous spectacles of domination over wonderful animals who deserve more than pain and death for human profit and amusement.”
