Horse Slaughter Bill Gets OK

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  Kibby on March 20 at 9:57 a.m.

  I am deeply dissapointed that they passed this bill. I know there are lots of complexities with the issue of horses and humane disposal of aged and injured animals. But if any of you were to see the horrible anguish & torture these poor animals are put through during “disposal” it would literally make you sick to your stomach.

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  Alan on March 20 at 10:51 a.m.

  Unfortunately, as other slaughterhouses shut down it caused a glut of horses, driving down the price. It’s difficult to sell a horse in many cases. As the economy declines, some folks can no longer afford to feed their horse(s). I understand that horses are starving to death all around the country. Bringing back a slaughterhouse and reducing the glut would some some salutory effects. It’s a complex question.

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  Joker on March 20 at 1:13 p.m.

  Horse meat is very popular in Europe. They pay top dollar for it. I’ve never had a horsey burger and never will, but who knows McDonalds might launch “The Trigger” burger.

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  Liz on March 20 at 2:25 p.m.

  This may be a surprise to anyone who knows how much I love horses but I don’t have a problem with it. Here’s why:

  Horses will still be slaughtered. But instead they will be carted off to Mexico or places with NO regulations whatsoever. Will these animals magically disappear from the face of the earth is slaughter is outlawed? No.

  Unless you believe that killing any animal for any reason is on the same moral plane as killing a human being (which means across the board: no meat, no leather NADA from animals) then you have to look at this from the POV of the law of unintended effects. I sounds nice to outlaw horse slaughter in the US but the reality is that closing off that option will snowball into even more inhumane treatment.

  The REAL solution lies with breeders. This isn’t so different from the no-kill shelter issue with dogs and cats. Responsible breeding is where the problem starts to end. Without that key piece, stopping slaughter only makes the cruelty go off our soil to someplace where we can’t see it and want to pretend it doesn’t happen.

  I leave you with one of my favorite web sites (non horsy types will probably be totally bored) Despite the cutesy title, it’s all about irresponsible horsemen/women who are part of the problem.

  http://fuglyhorseoftheday.blogspot.com/

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  Airspace1 on March 20 at 3:14 p.m.

  If there were ever a way to reward irresponsible people to continue to abuse,neglect animals and to carry on to humans this would be the way. Slaughter of our American Horses only does that in a way if they dont sell there horses at high end prices they can recoop there losts at a killer sale. The ones making a big deal about unwanted horses or loose horses are the ones loosing money. They are the Auctioneers, Killers, backyard breeders, Ag industries, and the Associations such as (AQHA) American Quarter Horse Associations and the others. To date NOT one of these problem creators have never set funds asided to assist older horses or even donated to any horse rescues in the US or Canada. They all made profit and now continue to create lies about there are now more than 100,000 unwanted yet they fail to mention that more horses are slaughtered than ever going to mexico and canada. The fact is there loosing money and opening a plant in MT and having a feedlot that already caders to Canada will also house horses unto MT plants open creating more profits for all. One of there biggest lies now is that there lying to rescues about paying $25.00 to rescues for each horse slaughtered at the new plants. When they already have a history of not paying there fines and obeying laws. Laws that had banned the slaughter of horses in the state of Texas and yet they continued secretly ignoring the law. These are foreigners that did not pay Gross Income tax nor export taxes in the US as most of us are oboligated too. Not to mention the inhumane laws broken from the Auctioneers to the haulers to the plants that rewarded these sellers. No one was fined for ignoring the wounded horses some with broken legs and some being totally blind and some even pregant all this according to the USDA (FOIA) Its time to close the book on all these foreign profits and irresponsible rewards of overbreeders and there associations.

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  BeaElliott on March 22 at 6:01 a.m.

  Animal agriculture would have us believe that these are old, injured, sick, diseased and dying animals… Some are, but the majority are simply animals that have been bred to be disposable in a profitable “meat” market. As long as money is to be made from horse flesh and horse leather there will be an “overpopulation” problem. We need instead, a bill that prohibits all horses from being shipped for slaughter anywhere.

  All animal slaughter is inhumane and exists because of greed. We do not need to kill animals at all to thrive. Whether it’s cows, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, horses, etc. we need to stop making money on their flesh and control populations sensibly and compassionately.

  Further, animal agriculture is responsible for a large portion of global warming problems. Methane from cows, pigs or horses… it’s all the same - and making more of these creatures (just to kill) is “insane”.

  Horses have moved beyond “livestock” status and should continue to be protected. Just because they eat dog/cat meat in Asia - you don’t see us sending them our “unwanted” or recently killed pets - do you?

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