Natural Horse care or more like unnatural Horse care

I'm probably making some enemies right now. That is not my wish! Feel free to think differently.  For months now I think about the discussions everywhere about what you should and shouldn't because it's natural or not. I mean things like: you should ride barefoot because that is natural (wait: riding is natural? I didn't think...), you shouldn't feed this or that because it's not natural. One thing that started to really tick my mind is: you shouldn't rug horses because it's not natural. What I think (and please don't feel under pressure to agree or disagree with me... it is my opinion and it is set in stone FOR ME) HORSES ARE NOT NATURAL ANYMORE. The closest you will come to a natural horse is the Przewalski Horse and they are far away from todays breeding goals for whatever purpose. Draft, jumping, dressage (western, classic, english), endurance, therapy... you name it. It starts with the environment the horse lives in - do you have 5 ha mixed and healthy land for each horse? Running water? You have? Wow, I'm jealous for real! So one of your horses somehow managed to hurt it's leg in it's natural habitat (which is not Portugal because horses found out that they don't like the sweet itch and moved to cooler regions...wait... there is sweet itch EVERYWHERE... but no, wait... natural horses don't suffer from it) So let's get back to the topic: your horse got hurt and is in pain - don't treat it... that's not natural. Wait for your wolves on hand to solve it naturally... guess you will have a horse less in a bit... Wait? No wolves? What about natural selection? No? Too natural...??? Yeah, that would be cruel and we would be bad horse mommies and daddies... And we are good, are we not? So we will find something else to be natural enough. Don't feed extras! Yes that's good! We all have established our 25 ha of mixed healthy land (well for me it would be... we have 5 horses. How many do you have?) I found that our horses eat bark, they love chewing cork, they eat acacia, they love thistle along with other stuff I don't even know the names.... I guess that would be enough variety. Or would it? Because they don't need extra energie - we stop working them - in the end it is not natural. Two of our horses have very little winter fur, well s*** happens... let them tremble during days of rain and nights of icy temperatures... If it bothers you - just think how happy they are to be - finally - a natural horse. I guess our 21 yo AR will develop some bone issues, drop weight and so on. She shouldn't be alive at all at this age. This is simply against nature... I saw many horses with bad feet - almost no material though they were just standing still... not even walking their naturally around 16 hours daily to feed and drink... get the wolves! Oh, a great idea just poped into my mind - what if we get a stallion for our mares - or two so they can fight it out who gets to impregnate ALL of them EVERY year... We get rid of the geldings... who needs them anyway? Is there enough land in Portugal for all the horses? Or at least enough wolves? I don't need to start about all the work we "used" our horses for - because this comes to an end... finally they can be natural... or die... naturally But before setting them free to their nature: please cut their manes and make sure they get a bangtail... wouldn't want them to get tangled in all the nature. Don't worry about the flyes, ticks and all the lovely small parasites... wouldn't want to mess with nature, would you? Well, I think we should make it as natural as circumstances allow. But we cannot forget that in the end we don't have natural horses. We have bred the nature out of them. There are rare breeds which could live good enough in the right place or die naturally of hunger, illness, accidents. We care for them to make them happy, healthy and have a long dynamic life. But to take all the comfort from them to get the illusion of natural horse care is just cruel.