Stop Cruel Horse Slaughter

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horse slaughter
I've been racing horses for most of my life and I can tell you that race horses that "don't make the grade" don't automatically end up at the slaughterhouse. I can get a lot more for a race horse from the Amish than I could selling it to be slaughtered. If these horses are sound and can be used for other things, they will be. Don't be ignorant.

Why would I sell my slow, but otherwise sound race horse to be slaughtered for $450, when I can sell him to the Amish at an auction for $1000 - $2000?

It's the horses that have no other uses that get sent to slaughter.

geff,

funny you should use you're first post to call me "ignorant".

Your argument doesn't hold water, as far as I'm concerned. The Amish must be up to their eyeballs in racehorses then.

You may also be interested in the fact that Americans overwhelmingly support the ban on horse slaughterhouses. We all must have reasons lost to you. Two bills are before committee now that will close remaining slaughterhouses operating in America today - the Senate expected to pass the bills. Texas banned horse slaughter - permenently closing two Belgium owned plants.

Healthy horses are slaughterd by "owners" that don't want the responsibiltiy of caring for horses any longer. Dealers buy unwanted horses at auction for the sole purpose of sending them to slaughter.

Do a bit of research and you'll begin understanding why most people, including responsible racehorse "owners" , are against horse slaughter in America.

In case you don't get it - animals are not ours to use, abuse, or exploit.

Animals are not ours to use? Excuse me?

They're too damn tasty not to!!!

animal slaughter
well really animal slaughter isnt that cruel if the animals are just going to be abadoned or left to fend for themselves. how many animals out there are running the streets just because their owners couldnt take care of them? way too many and they are just causing problems to not only us, but themselves as well. they are sick and hungry and most are beyond saving, and wouldnt it be cruel to let them stay like this when they could go on to a better place??

i think all animal slaughter is wrong. mostly because of the way they do it i mean pple have found humane ways of doing mostly anything why not killing animals. it is very sick, and disturbing

I think that even the race horses arnt hte ones that are suffering I did a mini serior project on teh Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro act. Whats very sad about this world that they created an act to keep these horses save in like 1917. They build shelters for the horses. Built fences coving thousands of acers to keep the horses safe. They did what ever was possible to keep teh horses safe. Back then horses were your life you relied on your horse but whats sad now is that the act that was created to protect those horses now is destroyed not literly but no one pays attention to it any more! That act not send 47,000 horses to acutions where 90% of the people at teh auctions are meat buyers. I love horses i own one myself and i would never think of selling her to a slaughter house but the problem is that when people need to get rid of there horse there are problems where someone say I'll take your horses where they will have a great life. The owners dont know that their horse is going to a slaughter house. So many horses killed and for what! MONEY! if france wants their horse meat then why dont they kill their horses not ours!

Beloved Companion and American Icon?-or Dinner on the Table?

Throughout history, horses have brought grace, beauty, strength, and companionship to humans, and have loyally served us in countless ways. No betrayal of that loyalty can match the shameful killing of these magnificent animals in U.S. slaughterhouses to satisfy the palates of diners in Italy, France, Belgium, and Japan.

The horrors these horses suffer at the slaughterhouse is compounded by the misery they are forced to endure on the way to this brutal end. Only three facilities in the entire country serve the foreign horsemeat markets. Thus horses destined for the killing floors?-approximately 78,000 went to slaughter in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada last year?-are often crammed together and transported across thousands of miles to slaughter in double-deck trucks designed for cattle and pigs. Even wild horses removed from public lands can legally be sold to slaughter for the first time since 1971, thanks to a Senate rider attached last year to an omnibus spending bill with no public hearing or discussion.

Representatives John Sweeney (R-NY) , John Spratt (D-SC) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY) have introduced H.R. 503, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, to ban horse slaughter and the international transport of live horses or horseflesh for human consumption. Senators John Ensign (R-NV) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) are expected to introduce a companion bill in the Senate soon.
What You Can Do
» Urge your federal legislators to cosponsor the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act and the Wild Horse Act.

» Watch "Stable to Slaughter" and learn more about the ugly betrayal of horse slaughter. (RealPlayer format)

And Representatives Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY) have introduced H.R. 297 to restore the federal protections to wild horses and burros, with a Senate companion bill, S. 576, introduced by Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV).

"This inhumane and disgusting practice, which only serves to promote animal cruelty, needs to be brought to an end," said Representative Sweeney when commenting on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. "Support for this legislation is stronger than ever, and I look forward to the day when the American horse no longer ends up on a dinner plate overseas." To date, 77 House members have signed on as cosponsors of H.R. 503.

» Please ask your federal legislators to end the slaughter of horses for human consumption and to restore the federal protections for wild horses.

http://hsus.ga4.org/campaign/FED_2005_horse_slaughter?source=gac4cc

HSUS is a bunch of retards. It's a Washington D.C. based PAC, not your local shelter. Get a clue.

hey pal, no - you get a clue! <wha' did yur rifle break>

Desktop "Hunters" Are a Target for All

It's not every day that I can say I agree with the National Rifle Association and Safari Club International, two of the nation's most active hunting organizations. But on one point, these two groups are absolutely right: Although they rarely see a hunting practice they don't like, no matter how unsporting or inhumane, they have both condemned so-called "Internet hunting."

It may sound like a harmless computer game, but it's more than virtual reality for the animals who are gunned down with the click of a mouse or stroke of a keyboard. The owner of a "canned hunting" ranch in Texas?-where trophy hunters pay a fee to shoot captive animals such as Barbary sheep, blackbuck antelope, and wild boar?-has taken the canned hunt one step further thanks to web technology and a platform with a mounted camera and rifle.

A guide on site herds an animal in front of the camera, and a person sitting at a home computer shoots the animal remotely?-from another state or even foreign country. The guide will even finish the job if the animal is wounded. The cost is several hundred dollars, not including taxidermy and shipping of your trophy. Initially thought to be just a depraved idea, the web site became operational this year and claimed its first victim.

Animal advocates, hunters, and legislators have all been outraged. Seventeen states have introduced legislation to ban Internet hunting?-a Virginia bill has become the first to be enacted into law, and Tennessee and West Virginia bills are awaiting their governors' signatures. Because of the interstate activity, however, federal legislation is needed to crack down on this pay-per-view slaughter. Just as Congress banned the interstate sale of "crush videos" over the Internet in 1999?-films in which scantily clad women in high heels crush small animals to death?-it should now ban the new snuff film scenario that is Internet hunting.

Sincerely,

Mike Markarian
THE HSUS FUND FOR ANIMALS

You realize there are lots of people with CF and other debilitating diseases or disabilities who would love to be able to go hunting. I'm not a proponent of Internet "hunting" either but to simply latch on to the bandwagon of ignorance that is HSUS is simply ridiculous. You might try thinking something through a bit before you post with your bleeding heart.

One of HSUS goals is to ban all hunting. So, you agree with them? What do you do when the wildlife starts to overpopulate? Bring in sharpshooters? Let them starve? Deer and cars don't mix well. Comon, THINK.

How bout stopping human infringment on forests and wildlands, messing with the ecosystem, killing predator animals so you can go shoot something.

Maybe its you that should read and comprehend or perhaps take a nature hike - sans the ammo.

Bleeding heart? Joking, right?

You have no idea.

I'm trying to think of a predatory animal that I have ever killed, other than a fish...

Wanna do something to help horses stradee?

First, you need to stop posting HSUS crap and find an organization that actually does something other than create more arcane laws designed to take away the rights of citizens. Try Google searching on "equine rescue", maybe you'll find your calling.

You missed your calling then. Great white hunters hanging out of airplanes shooting wolves - but only after the animals are run to exhaustion. Or you could try running them down with a snowmobile.

What a great 'sport' hunting is, huh?

It's a wonderful sport. I'm sorry you are so closed minded about the subject.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49496&highlight=

First, you don't tell me what i can or cannot post - because you happen to disagree with HSUS.

PETA, EARTHJUSTICE, IN DEFENCE OF ANIMALS, DDAL, DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, just to name a few organizations, and the MAJORITY of citizens of the United States agree with the laws that protect animals and wildlife. Just the administration does not!

The Nations hunters = 6% of the population. The other percentages are out the nation = trophy hunters.

Those are not people concerned with animal preservation, but how many animals they can kill, stuff, and adorn den walls with their 'catch'.

Arm the bears, then call hunting a 'sport'.