Horse Slaughter????

Question

Horse slaughter is so wrong! How could someone kill an innosent animal! And whats worse is that its for human consumpion over seas! I heard that they were going to make it a law that horse slaughtering is illigal with american horses. but i never herd if they exepted that law. So that is what i whant to know. If you dont know allot about horse slaughtering you should go to the Perfect harmony animal rescue and sanctuary website and on the left side there is a bunch of links and one of them says horse slaughter click on there and read about it. it is just awfull! And if you whant look and some of the pictures too. How could people do that to an animal?

And STEPHANIE i do go to school and I am NOT planing to quit! And don't say stuff about a person you don't know! And i didn't wach videos on YOU TUBE! And the way they kill those horses is just horrible sometimes they just hang them by there hind feet, cut open there throghts and just let them bleed out and most of the horses are still alive when they cut their throuts and just leave them hanging ther! And when you see the pictures you can just see the fright that they have in their eyes and you whant to help them but you can't do anything about it!

Answer 1

Hellloooooooooo??????///

Slaughter houses have closed in the US now ;) No need to further salt into the wounds for what ppl have caused. Go to google, do some research and actually become informed.

Since ppl just like you, fought and closed the slaughter houses, horses now are suffering even more, wasting away in dry lots because there is no pasture here, there is no hay. People won't bullet them because then you have to actually bury them. They won't pay the vet bills because they don't have the money. I have seen so many starving horses go through sale barns and no sale.

What do you think happened to those starving horses?? They starved to death. Whereas before, they would of been put down at a slaughter house and not made to endure suffering.

So please, before you start this bleeding heart crap with me, actually come up with a plan that helps the animals and doesn't hurt them. Its all you people have seem to have done.

Answer 2

What is there to do with unwanted, unrideable, dangrous, horses with slaughter not being an option? People breed carelessly bringing poor quality, unwanted horses into the world, these horses are not worth anything, they can't be sold to better homes for many reasons, careing for horses is expensive, and people sometimes just can not afford to keep their unwanted horse. So if selling isn't an option, then the horse gets sent to auction where it is purchased by a meat buyer. Euthanizing a horse is very expensive, because disposing of the body is not the easiest thing to do. Rescues are overflowing with horses, there is not a single rescue within 3 hours of me that will accept new horses. Because of these circumstances horses get neglected, abandoned, and end up having a long, drawn out death. A quick bolt to the head at the slaughter house is significantly more humane then spending years dieing alone in a manure filled pasture somewhere.

Horses are expensive. Rescues can not raise enough money to care for every unwanted horse. With the drought, economy getting worst, and other factors, the bottom line is fewer and fewer people can afford to care for their horses, and yet people still keep on breeding. If you want to do something to better the welfare of horses, then try and educate people about backyard breeding, donate to rescues, but ending slaughter is only going to make the quality of life for horses get worst. Anyone that is active in the horse industry understands why it is a nessicary evil, people like you that think with emotions rather then their head are the ones that are contributing to the number of neglected horses. Horses are livestock animals, they are large, powerful, expensive to care for animals. Not all horses can be pets to someone, there just arent enough people willing to take on problem horses. It is a nice idea that horses could be adopted out to families insted of sent to slaughter, but think of the fact that many horses that go to slaughter not only have physical problems, but mental. The average horse going to the slaughter house isn't just your calm, dead broke older horse, they are horses that can be flat out dangrous, there is no place for a vast majority of the horses going through the slaughter house.

Don't watch some youtube videos made by animal extremists and think that you are fully knowledgeable on the subject. Do research on both sides of the issue, and use sources that are not biased, one sided, animal rights propaganda. You need to also realize that a majority of pictures and videos of horrific slaughter houses were taken in mexico where the standereds are different. Horses in american regulated slaughter houses are killed by an electric bolt to the head, which is almost 100% effective.. Think about it: how would you hang a 1000 lb animal upside down BEFORE it was dead? The horse would resist so strongly it would be impossible...

Answer 3

Animal cruelty is what it is...all slaughterhouses across the US and the world are like that-- not just the horse ones. The horse slaughterhouses in the US are all closed now.
I eat meat, but I prefer hunted wild animals...at least I know how it died--and I can make sure its as painless and quick as possible. I don't know what kind of horrible things happen to domestic animals, and what is put into the meat to preserve it, when they come from slaughterhouses.
I love horses, but I don't think that eating them in other countries should be seen differently than eating a cow/pig/etc here in the US. We have to accept that other cultures eat animals we don't--cats, dogs, horses, and other animals we see as pets are seen as a source of food in other places. For the people that worship cattle, we are monsters! We kill the representation of their gods...imagine how we look to them. We have no right to judge.
We shouldn't be angry at the fact that they are being sulaughtered for food--but for the fact that they are being treated cruelly and inhumanely. It is not wrong to eat an animal, but it is wrong to make is any more painful than it has to be, and it is wrong to beat them, slit their throats while alive and such. I would far rather eat from a deer that I shot cleanly in the head, dead in an instant, than any poor chicken, cow, pig or other animal that had to suffer hours on end. That is the real tragedy.

Answer 4

This is a debate that will never find a compromise. Horse slaughter is a "necessary evil". One thing that a slaughter market does is provide a healthy floor for the horse market in general... We're already hearing stories of people just turning horses loose because there's no market, stories are circulating that sale barns are locking their gates at night to keep people from dumping horses in their lots. I would not knowingly send a horse to slaughter, UNLESS, that horse was a danger to itself, people, or other horses. There are animals that are just plain dangerous and they need to be put down, not moved on down the line to some person who knows nothing about horses but likes it's color... It's happened. People who knew nothing about horses, but wanted a buckskin bought a horse out of the kill pen... it tried to kill the trainer, and picked up three, that's THREE powder river panels in his teeth. I guess, what I'm trying to say is not all horses can or should be rescued. RSC really hits this subject on the head in her post.

Answer 5

Horse slaughter is no different than slaughtering cows or pigs or any other animal. What's a real shame is now they'll be shipping these horses an even farther distance (to canada) to sell them for slaughter which will put much more stress and pain on those horses. This is just one more movement from the Animal Rights groups intent on making sure that no one ever owns an animal and cannot eat an animal. So if you have a beloved horse or other pet you love, by supporting this movement, you're also kissing your pet goodbye because you're also supporting their movement to remove you as an owner - forever.

Answer 6

Ok I can see both sides of this one but seriously we kill cows, sheep, pigs and other "farm" animals for food and they are not killed anymore humanely than horses and are just as innocent. I think it is because we see them more as a "pet" and have come to accept (in this country) that horses are not raised for food. HOWEVER I do agree that there are way to many unwanted, uncared for and hurting horses out there that need and deserve to be put out of thier misery humanely.
Please don't be ignorant on this subject, go to a slaughter house for cows website and you will see the same photos but will you stop eating beef? I have 2 horses that I love dearly but I cannot completely go against slaughter houses, who will take in and care for all these unwanted horses? Until all the protesters unite to take them all in, nurse them back to health and then find them homes they need to back off.

Answer 7

What boggles my mind is when people say that people won't bullet their own horse's because then they would have to bury them and they can't pay the vet bills thus they let them starve in a field. So when they die of starvation in that field are you suddenly exempt from burying them? What hog wash. Let's face it it's all about money. If you can't afford the cost of burying one then don't buy it in the first place. And yes I realize that sometimes circumstances can rapidly change jobs are lost, stables close but the slaughter house shouldn't be the answer. On Long Island it probably costs $1000 dollars to have a euthanized horse disposed of. Long Island is expensive. This is not an impossible amount of money to pay off in a reasonable amount of time. BE RESPONSIBLE TO THOSE YOU HAVE TAKEN UNDER YOUR CARE. Suck it up, work 2 jobs, do without, have a fund raiser...think of something....of course the slaughterhouse IS the easy way to go (for you at least) and you get money $$$$ to do it. Blood money, Judas money! And if there were no slaughterhouses one wouldn't have to worry about when life goes terribly wrong and we are forced to sell at auction something we never intended on selling . There would be no killers lining up to load up their trucks

Answer 8

human beings additionally forget approximately at times it fairly is a have-to-sell project. issues happen. Pastures for hire grow to be unavailable - and while there's a quick quantity of time to discover a clean place or sell them at times the single way holiday to the commonplace public sale is the only decision. :-( Rescues can not and could not take up the numbers of horses that now are unlikely to slaughter. lots of the horses - from a kill customer's view - ideally are the unbroke 4-8 365 days old horses that have been in a pasture. the common "Molly's so enormously enable's breed her" offspring that grow to be not lovable while they seem to be a 365 days old and turning nasty through fact they have in no way been disciplined an afternoon of their existence. that's not the fault of breeders/running shoes. a pair months in the past horses right here have been $15-20. there is valuable little hay and much less pasture on hand. between the drought in some places and the floods in others hay is going to be very scarce this 365 days. each individual who campaigned for it certainly can take 10-15 of those horses - That'd clean up the 'overpopulation' very without delay - artwork the magic and make all of them into stable using horses. of direction many are not proper to that - i recognize of a mare as quickly as that, regrettably, the superb place for her replaced into slaughter. She replaced into risky for experienced handlers and might harm green ones. And for those asserting how we don't do it right here...it wasn't that some years in the past horse meat replaced into eaten right here contained in the US; it replaced into on the beef counter. there's a USDA foodstuff website that still has contemporary foodstuff content for horse meat. If we weren't so spoiled with plenty right here - or if beef costs proceed to upward push - it does not marvel me the tide might turn lower back. there replaced into even an episode of All contained in the family individuals contained in the '70s that replaced into approximately procuring horse meat and serving it - and Archie thought it replaced into surprising beef. it fairly is a distasteful project, no pun meant. yet there is too many unknowns for euthanasia - no one has replied what is going to happen while those 50,000+ (counting on what statistic you study as much as double that) horses loaded with deadly chemical compounds attain the floor water furnish. certainly it form of feels those screaming for euthanasia in no way think of approximately it nor choose for to debate that. And for what it rather is properly worth - if human beings get hungry adequate that they had eat a canines or cat too. :-/

Answer 9

Read this book, I'm sure you'd like it: Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West by Margurite Henry.
And while, I, as a horse lover, don't like the thought of killing horses of course, you need to say that about every animal to be fare.
Plus starving, old and crippled horses on their last leg, would probably benefit from being put down. Quality over quanity of life, you know.

Answer 10

Honey, stay in school. Learn to type, spell and learn correct grammar.

While studying, do some research online about the pros & cons of horse slaughter BEFORE posting statements like this. Do more than just watch the videos on YouTube. In fact, I suggest you go to horsecity.com and the bulletin boards. Do a search on the horse slaughter posts, and spend some time reading the posts from both sides. Read the informed information as well as the uninformed. You will then realize what you sound like here.