Pain From the Bit (Photographic Evidence)

A lot of people believe that other species display the degree of pain with loud cries like humans themselves do. So they consider vocalization to be the main indication of someone being in pain. But the vocalization of pain is defined by the inherited specific responsiveness. For example, pigs, if castrated without anesthesia, cry extremely loudly. But horses, on the other hand, stay silent during the same manipulation. They have much lower responsiveness to noxious stimuli, but feel the same pain. They stay silent while twitched, while their lips are torn with bits, while their legs break, while their hooves are pierced with nails, while suffering from laminitis, and while being branded with a cold or hot branding-iron. The last example gives stud-farm owners the cause to believe, basing on their "personal experience", that hot branding is almost painless for horses. This is not true. The fact that a lot of people don't know anything on the matter of the responsiveness to noxious stimuli allows yahoos to cultivate the myth that horses, unlike humans, feel less pain; that the use of traumatic tools is painless for horses.
-Alexander Nevzorov

The amount of pictures here are enough to show that these are not just "unlucky moments". The same face is reflected on each and every one of these horses.















































































































































































































































































More coming later.