humanity

91,000 horses are killed in the US each year, after spending their lives running races (but mostly standing in narrow stalls) so that humans can play their money games. thus the costs of gambling extend beyond the suffering of the addicted.

in a program allowing inmates to care for rescued horses (pulled from deadly auctions that would have earned their "owners" another couple hundred bucks) wardens say that even the most violent criminals become humanized after a short time. each prisoner considers the horse he cares for his friend. several of them spend their meager earnings on treats, looking forward each morning to being released from their cages so they can release the horses from theirs.

excepting the horse "owners", who often don't bother with trips to the vet once earnings begin to decline, letting broken kneecaps and impounded horseshoes accumulate, there might perhaps be some remote justification for basing the word "humanity" on our species.