Comments on: Horse Welfare Activists Rally Against Horse Slaughter

By: trackgirl

trackgirl — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:22:34 +0000

So many horses are bred for no reason leading to overpopulation. I follow horse racing. I do not believe just because a horse is registered (any breed) they should be bred. When these horses no longer can perform, then look where they go. They do not ask to be born, ran into the ground, and left behind, unloved and unwanted. I think breeding should be regulated. Thoroughbreds, for example. Several non-racers has helped to produce some lower class winners on track but not every horse that steps on a track needs to be bred. This policy would actually strengthen the Thoroughbred lines and produce better horses for the long haul.

I bought two off the track Thoroughbreds and they are in hog heaven! I have spent more on them than their money worth but their worth to me is priceless! I love them, love them, love them! I only wish I could take more of these precious souls and give them homes.
People, get the word out for these animals because I can tell ya, there is some people that do want them! I found mine from the website www. friendsofferdinand.org. Remember him? Anyway tell everyone of these sites or surf the web for them. People will help you get them to your house if you need assistance. Thank you.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:10:38 +0000

It was nice to read the comments that already exist. No one called antihorseslaughter supporters bleeding hearts, zombies or unrealistic. That was refreshing. It was a shame that more people didn’t drive their elected officials crazy with emails to get those bills passed last year. Pelosi never put it up for vote, so it just sat there. Next year???
Don’t know why Congress is against antihorseslaughter, guess they are just glad they export something nowadays. Don’t know why anyone, even politically, would want a horse slaughter house in “their” back yard. Nontax paying company that gets subsidies, polutes the land and water with unusable waste products and blood. There’s a lot to be said about comparing the housing market with the horse market. If you have too much, you can get it cheap or no one wants it anymore. Breeders beware, all of a sudden you will be stuck with all those ‘useless/inferior’ products you are producing.
P.S Let the BLM know what you are thinking.

By: ?

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:02:15 +0000

Of course horse BREEDERS, the reason for over population, support slaughter. (Not that all horse breeders are irresponsible or support slaughter, but a lot do.)

By: ?

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:57:58 +0000

People are just sick. Sluaghter is morally wrong, pyshcologically wrong, and just palin wrong. These people have no respect for life, love, beauty, or ANYTHING. They are a disgrace to humankind and God (or whatever god you believe in, none support killing, right?) This is just disusting. Even some “horse lovers” support slaughter. How can you call yourself a “horse lover” is you support DEATH PAIN CRUELTY DISGRACE BETRAYAL. Really, there are some sick people in this world. I hope none of these people are Catholic because the 5th Commandment is “Thy shall not kill” or support killing.

By: Cindi

Cindi — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:12:40 +0000

Thanks for the article addressing this issue. There is no need for horse slaughter in this country and for proponents to try to sell it as either humane or necessary is preposterous – it is their greed and lack of respect for life that motivates pro-slaughter individuals. Even the cry of overpopulation points right back to unscrupulous individuals who can directly control the number of horses bred in any given year.
If I own a business I don’t knowingly overproduce my product if I expect it to maintain its value. Overbreeding is the issue, plain and simple. The fact that these brutal ends are even considered for an animal who has contributed to human civilization to such a degree is despicable at best.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:45:48 +0000

Excellent divulgation of pertinent information — light on this issue of horse manipulation and abuse that will lead to better times for horses, men and all life on Earth.

By: Joey Westhead

Joey Westhead — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:41:35 +0000

Horse Channel! THANK YOU for an eye-opening, educational article.
I have recently become aware of the horrors our American horses face once irresponsible owners are ‘done’ with their friends. How can someone take their friend, who has taken care of them, out of his clean, dry stall, leave him at auction, wondering where they are, when they are coming back to take him home. His owner is long gone, with his few hundred dollars from the kill buyer.
A few hundred dollars for the life of a friend. No looking back, no giving a second thought as to what will happen to him now.. I don’t think I would want a friend that could treat another being as cruel as this. Who’s to say they wouldn’t sell me out for a couple hundred bucks?
Horse Slaughter does NOT belong in America. We do NOT eat our horses. Transporting American horses to Canada and Mexico should be illegal as well. Our horses are NOT meant to be for human consumption. The contaminants in everything we give to our horses to keep them healthy are highly toxic to humans. Yet, Canada and Mexico slaughterhouses are sending toxic meat to European countries, China and Japan.
We need to remember our PMU Mares also. They are kept pregnant ALL of their lives as they stand night and day, hooked to a machine to catch their urine. When they finally foal, that baby is ripped from his Mamma and yes.. sent to slaughter or left to die a horrible death.
When these mares have done their ‘job’ being tortured all their lives, standing constantly, not able to lie down, be with their babies.. They too, are shipped off to a horrible death.
We Americans are better than this! Horses are now considered companion animals just like our dogs and cats. We need to be more responsible. When you decide on horse ownership, decide upon it for LIFE. For their life and the joy they bring into you, a loving and caring owner.

By: Dianne

Dianne — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:12:31 +0000

Thank you so much for this educational and enlightening article regarding horse slaughter. Many Americans think that because the U.S. has closed it’s slaughter plants that it isn’t happening anymore. How wrong they are…10,000 a month are being slaughtered across the borders in CAnada and Mexico. It is a horrible and barbaric death. The whole process takes 1/2 hour and the horse is conscious during it, absolutely horrible. No animal should die like that, and especially such a sensitive creature that is so special in so many ways. There is a humane death for the horse when it comes the right time, that answer is euthanasia. Thank you again for this article, there should be more on this subject and also of the plight of our Wild American Mustangs in the future.

By: Delilah

Delilah — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:40:57 +0000

Thank you so much Horse Channel for this article concerning the ugly institution of horse slaughter. Having had considerable experience with killbuyers and their ilk, the horse traders, this awful business has got to go! It is a most reprehensible “business” from the beginning to the bloody end. Please continue to expose us concerned horse owners about such events as these mentioned in the article. Thank you once again.

By: Jeannie Jacobs Parisi

Jeannie Jacobs Parisi — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:33:51 +0000

Thank you Simone Netherlands/George Knapp and ALL who stand up for these beautiful HORSES. AMazing isn’t it how the AQHA, one of the largest breeders are Pro-Slaughter along with other’s, yet this is never brought up in the discussions of the Pro-Slaughter advocates, so sad that these people consider horses a mere commodity and do not care what happens to them. If there horses that they sit upon only knew what is in store for them once they have tired of them and onto the next. They have no connection what so ever and should not be allowed to even own a horse with that sick and morbid attitude. I guess they would eat their horse too.
Horse Slaughter Plant’s in the USA is a complete SHAME, to even think of opening them to create a better Horse Industry is a SIN and shameful and heartless. SUe Wallis, to even think of feeding these horses to school children, the homeless and inmates is a complete disgrace from A to Z..Just as SUe Walli’s poems make NO SENCE either does anything she claims she is doing for the Horses and the abudance of…….ALL ABOUT GREED