Racehorse - I've seen this too. In fact, one supplier had something along the lines of: "contains less than 1% diacetyl. Diacetyl is a naturally occurring compound found in fruits" < no mention that it's associated with bronchiolitis obliterans! In fact, the way it's written makes Diacetyl sounds perfectly fine.
It was my understanding that the researchers thought that, despite no bronchioloitis obliterans that this can later show up and/or be misdiagnosed as COPD.
Either way, vaping is harm reduction method for me, and I will continue to pursue a reduction to harm for myself.
I think the word will spread very fast, and it will be quickly known that there are lots of bad apples in the vaping industry. Just as ANTZ told you there were.
PETA and others exposed abuse in the horse racing industry. It was not welcomed by fans who "wanted to sweep stuff under the rug because PETA might get hold of it and use it against us" types.
Fortunately, those of us who are passionate about our sport, and the horses, were able to love our sport but support the efforts into what's wrong with equal passion. It seems that is the only way improvements have happened. Despite that we don't like PETA.
Those who had / have high personal ethical standards and truly wanted to see improvements
didn't care who the messenger was.
Investigations were made, because animals can't speak on their own behalf. And because it was the right thing to do. Secretariat's brother was found starving in a muddy Texas feedlot, on his way to the slaughterhouse. The great Ferdinand, Kentucky Derby winner of 1986 and Horse of the Year in 1987, was found in a slaughterhouse. Thankfully, there were people willing to speak for them and speak out that there were problems in their industry.
The outcome has been that a whole lot of improvements have been made for the horses, with retirement/re-careering representatives on almost every track backside. One horse I had been watching went on to become a rather talented jumper in Europe. Several others have been retrained for other careers, even working with autistic children, etc. There are databases with injuries, veterinary reports being made public, and drug testing on the athletes.
Unfortunately, some outfits had to be "embarassed" publically, or in the case of some barns, have federal investigators come in, with fines and jail time, because they just wouldn't set themselves right w/out being forced.
Self-regulation only works when those involved hold themselves to the highest standards and best practices when they see what needs to be done. Cutting corners ends up costing way more in the end.....and many have not made it to the finish line using that model.
In the end, the only people who really hindered improving the industry were not PETA members.....what hindered us was the paranoid members who kept making excuses for the bad practices. Because they didn't want PETA etc. minding our business. Those types of fans
were precisely the ones that allowed bad practices to continue.
But the rest of us, we sent a message loud and clear: this crap wouldn't be tolerated. Thankfully, the most respected trainers and people in the industry agreed with us...(and indirectly, with PETA on some of the issues.)
The rest of us did not want to be part of a sport that would embarass us, we wanted to set things right so we could continue to enjoy and support the sport and horses we love.
