LI ROBBINS: When Black Beauty was a foal he led an idyllic life, gambolling around a pond in a large pleasant meadow… The 1877 novel by Anna Sewell, billed as “the autobiography of a horse,” was a cri-de-coeur against such commonplace cruelties. It encouraged readers to consider life from a horse’s point of view in … Continue reading They Eat Horses, Don’t They?: Horses make things extra-complicated when we debate how humans should treat animals