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To: average joe who wrote (93471)	1/19/2005 5:56:47 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Sorry to be answering such an old message--I am really behind again. Re the issue of horse insemination you raise, do horses in the wild typically hurt each other when they mate? Have some male horses been bred to be much larger in proportion to females than they occur naturally? Are male horses killed at birth or disposed of some other way as infants because artificial insemination technology makes them irrelevant? I was particularly complaining about the artificial insemination of cows to keep them pregnant, so they could produce much, much more milk than cows naturally produce. I was objecting to the entire idea, including disposing of male calves, taking day-old calves away from their mothers, etc. I do not object to artificial insemination in all animals period on principle--there may be some situations where it is the most kind thing to do.