....in this case, horse racing. Evidently, about 1000 race horses die each year due to injuries on the track, and this is in addition to how many others "put down" away from the track. The article also notes that "Big Brown" was a steroid freak on the level of Barry Bonds' reputation--and when the trainers took him off the bug juice, that was when he lost.
I've not no trouble with athletic events, but at a certain point, maybe we need to take into account that there just might be reasons that our bodies don't put on muscle beyond a certain point, and decline to use "better living through chemistry" to achieve what we could not otherwise. How much dog food needs to be made before we catch on to this principle?
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drugs have been a part of horse racing for generations.
what surprises me, is that i thought all big events like the derby,etc, were drug-free enforced.
Bingo--I had thought that the axiom "peeing like a racehorse" meant that they were serious about keeping performance enhancing drugs out of the racetrack. I am wrong.
Again, how many cans of dog food do we need to make before maybe, just maybe, we figure out that the Creator might have designed a balance between muscular development and bone strength?
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