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We should cease abuse
of racehorses
Up to now this yr, 5 younger horses have died at Golden Gate Fields. Two died from colic, a horrible affliction, however largely preventable if horses aren’t fed hard-to-digest, carbohydrate-loaded feed to spice up their power to race abnormally quick. One other sufferer collapsed after successful a race and sustained a extreme damage, the results of horses being educated and raced earlier than they attain musculoskeletal maturity. She was euthanized instantly. The causes of demise of the opposite two stay undisclosed.
Untimely deaths apart, horses are suffering from being stored in 12-by-12-foot stalls 23 hours a day and prodded to race with pain-inflicting devices. As they turn into unprofitable, some find yourself deserted or in slaughterhouses overseas.
Once we understand that horseracing isn’t a sport however a authorized betting car, it turns into clear why the trade treats the horses it claims to be well-cared-for athletes so callously, why it’s unreformable, and why we should cease it.
Niloofar Shambayati
Berkeley
Time to reward ladies
of shade’s achievements
In mild of the Oscars this previous weekend, I consider you will need to word the excellent accomplishments that had been achieved Sunday evening.
Michelle Yeoh gained finest actress as Halle Berry offered the award to her. It was an attractive second the 2 gifted ladies shared as they're the one two ladies of shade to win this award in 95 years. This accomplishment radiates hope for our future ladies leaders and demonstrates the infinite quantity of accomplishment ladies in our society can do.
It's time for girls to be acknowledged for his or her expertise and intelligence. Too typically ladies are ignored and belittled in workplaces, training, social gatherings, and so forth., solely due to their gender. As everyone knows, America was constructed largely by males, and ladies are making their solution to the highest daily.
Natalie Martinez
San Leandro
GOP searching for to erase
trans individuals’s rights
Having already repealed Roe v. Wade, Republicans see hatred and concern of individuals born transgendered as the brand new car for drawing their extremist Christian base to the polls. They're passing anti-trans legal guidelines as quick as they will.
The current Conservative Political Motion Convention, held in Texas, was largely devoted to demonizing trans individuals. White Christian Nationalist autocrat Viktor Orban of Hungary, the GOP’s new position mannequin, gave the opening tackle. Michael Knowles of The Each day Wire stated to the cheering crowd, “Transgenderism have to be eradicated from public life completely.”
Clearly, the GOP is emulating fascist Hungary, which denies trans individuals the suitable to alter their title and gender on official authorities paperwork — eradicating them from public life.
As Republicans eradicate Fourteenth Modification equal safety rights for individuals born trans, they eradicate democracy for all of us. If given sufficient energy, they'll ultimately come for you.
Grace Clark
Livermore
Unlawful immigrants drive
youngster care scarcity
Re: “Deficit might delay new child-care funding” (Web page B1, March 14).
Patricia Moran supplies youngster look after low-income households and is dismayed and disenchanted that Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed to delay funding for 20,000 further much-needed slots for sponsored youngster look after these households with a purpose to assist stability the price range.
And but, California is deemed a sanctuary state with immigrants flooding into our nation illegally from the southern border — nearly 3 million in 2022 and nonetheless climbing. One wonders if they'll discover jobs, and in the event that they do, who will care for their kids. There’s one thing improper with this image.
I personally actually really feel for the households talked about on this article who've been right here for some time and are already having a tough time discovering reasonably priced youngster care.
Kim Crow
Danville
McCarthy’s switch
of Jan. 6 tapes craven
I'm appalled by Kevin McCarthy’s totally craven habits. His corrupt guarantees made in a determined try and receive the Home speakership threaten the very cloth of our democracy.
Secretly granting unrestricted entry to view the surveillance tapes of the riot of Jan. 6 to Tucker Carlson threatens to intervene with the prosecution and prison proceedings of these concerned within the coup try. As well as, the members of Congress who're themselves supporters and instigators of the riot are the very people who find themselves supervising entry to those extremely delicate tapes.
That is an outrageous switch of presidency property to those that would use it to say innocence and unfold additional the falsehoods regarding the 2020 election.
Caroline Lehman
Albany