My west coast brother informed me that today is "Eat an Animal for PETA Day." I really don't think this is what PETA is all about but I did have Swiss steak for supper.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is the world's largest animal rights organization. focused on stopping abuse of animals in laboratories, food, clothing and entertainment. It was founded in 1980.
I only bring this up because last night my spouse and I watched the old John Wayne movie "Hondo" filmed in 1953. It was a good movie, excellent entertainment, ahead of its time in many ways, and involving what appeared to be hundreds of horses.
I don't know, nor do I care to know, if any horses were maimed or killed in the filming of that movie, but as I watched it I kept thinking that it must have been filmed before PETA was founded. I was right; see the dates above. There were lots and lots of horses running all over the place in this movie. Soldiers on horses, homesteaders on horses, cowboys on horses, Apaches on horses and horses pulling covered wagons and other conveyances. It was a very exciting movie, but I can't help thinking that films like this were part of the reason that PETA was founded. True or not, I do recommend the movie.
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